Amanda McClelland is the Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives, where she leads a team working to accelerate progress to make the world safer from epidemics.
Amanda is a notable expert in international public health management, especially in emergency health, epidemic control, mass casualty in low resource settings, disease prevention and response operations. Her achievements include coordinating the frontline response during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, for which she received the 2015 Florence Nightingale Medal for exceptional courage, and publishing a landmark study with the World Bank on the cost of health care worker infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, which confirmed the live-saving benefits of a comprehensive approach to Ebola prevention.
Amanda previously served as the Global Emergency Health Advisor for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). She earned her Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and her Bachelor of Nursing from Queensland University of Technology.