Anna Tate

Anna Tate serves is the Director of Domestic Programs at Project HOPE. She leads the organization’s U.S. strategy and oversees the domestic portfolio, which focuses on strengthening frontline health workforce capacity, expanding access to care for underserved populations, and ensuring continuity of care from emergency response through long-term recovery. This focuses on community-based health models, maternal and child health, mental health and resilience, emergency preparedness and recovery, and biosecurity and infectious disease resilience.

Tate brings more than a decade of experience leading public health programs across government and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining Project HOPE, she held leadership roles at the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, where she helped shape national preparedness strategy and served in key roles during several public health emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic. While at ASPR, she oversaw the development of the Medical Countermeasure Preparedness Review, a congressionally mandated report shaping U.S. priorities for vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. As an Interdisciplinary Scientist, she developed capabilities-based analyses and medical countermeasure requirements for biological threats, served on the Joint Emergencies and Disasters Innovation Policy Task Force and the Decision Support Group during the COVID-19 response, and acted as Principal Advisor for Eastern Equine Encephalitis as part of an Incident Advisory Team. She also co-authored the 2020–2030 National Influenza Vaccine Modernization Strategy.

Prior to this, Tate held leadership roles at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, including Director of Outbreak Response, Supervisor in the Ebola Active Monitoring Center, and Acting Director of the Zika Testing Call Center. She also co-led international rapid response workshops and emergency preparedness panels that brought together public health officials and technical experts from multiple countries. Tate previously served as a Senior Infectious Disease Specialist at the Association of Public Health Laboratories, where she oversaw a respiratory pathogens portfolio and led international biosecurity and public health laboratory workshops with global partners. Tate began her career as a fellow with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, supporting communications and coordination during the West Africa Ebola response. She has also studied Global Health and Development Policy abroad through the School for International Training and holds a Master of Public Health from Emory University and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.