Nicole Young

Senior Program Officer, Integrated Development

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

International health professional with experience in epidemiology, implementation science, health policy, health economics, mathematical and microsimulation modeling, product introduction, market access, and real-world evidence. Skilled in applying rigorous analytical thinking and practical execution to develop innovative, cross-disciplinary solutions for complex health and social challenges in diverse, high-stakes environments worldwide. My global experience and strategic insight drive impactful, scalable initiatives that enhance health outcomes across complex geographies.

Experience

  • Gates Foundation (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Program Officer, Global Health Integrated Development Expertise, Global Health
      Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      • Applying decision-centric analytics and Model-Informed Drug Development (MIDD) to health product development and health innovation. • Strengthening how models are used to inform stage-gates, trade-offs, risk management, and portfolio prioritization. • Partnering across technical, regulatory, and commercialization functions to generate earlier, clearer strategic insight for health product development.

    • Senior Program Officer, Modeling & Quantitative Science, Family Planning
      Feb 2025 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

      ▪ Designed and executed data analytics and modeling approaches to inform strategic decisions and investment priorities across 30+ countries. ▪ Translating complex data needs into high-impact insights by shaping analytic priorities, guiding cross-team intake, and ensuring outputs inform program design, policy influence, and investment strategy. ▪ Overseeing cross-functional collaborations with grantees, researchers, and contractors to build user-centric analytic and decision-support tools. ▪ Directing investments to improve health data, indicator quality and data use for accountability, with a focus on contraceptive access and service delivery.

    • Program Officer, Innovative Product Introduction & Market Access, Women's Health Innovations
      May 2024 - Mar 2025 · 11 mos

      ▪ Directed $80M+ in investments to accelerate market access for self-injectable contraception across Africa and Asia; shaping private sector engagement and Go-To-Market planning, de-risking supply, and catalyzing demand generation. ▪ Led global and country-level product introduction efforts, including health technology assessments, budget impact analysis, medical affairs strategy, co-development of national rollout plans, and the redesign of global market stewardship to support long-term uptake.

  • Research Scientist at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    Nov 2019 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Cost-effectiveness and agent-based modelling ▪ Led projects to inform investment strategies for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Ethiopia Ministry of Health. ▪ Developed agent-based and Markov models for our python-based microsimulation framework using latest Global Burden of Disease data and concepts to quantify the cost-effectiveness of health interventions for reducing child mortality and non-communicable disease burden globally.

  • Fogarty Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Fogarty International Center at NIH
    Sep 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr

    Implementation and operational research, modeling ▪ Awarded research funding to investigate the operational impact of delivering HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for antenatal and post-natal women at health facilities in western Kenya to inform intervention scale-up using discrete-event simulation (DES) modelling.

  • Ph.D Researcher and Principal Investigator at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
    Sep 2013 - Aug 2018 · 5 yrs

    Program implementation and evaluation ▪ Designed, implemented, and evaluated a longitudinal program on integrated point-of-care testing (IPOCT) for HIV, syphilis, malaria and anemia in seven antenatal clinics in western Kenya with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), Kenya Medical Research Institute and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KEMRI/CDC).

  • Peace Corps Morocco Volunteer at Peace Corps
    Mar 2008 - Jun 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Rural maternal and child health ▪ Developed proficiency in Moroccan Arabic to work with local health workers and trained counterparts to provide reproductive health education to post-partum women at Tinzouline's community birthing clinic.