Samy José Gálvez de León, MPH is a public health and health systems leader with over seven years of experience working at the intersection of government, academia, and global and domestic health programs. He most recently served as a Strategic Information Global HIV Health Consultant with FHI 360, supporting partners across Latin America on monitoring, evaluation, data use, and health systems strengthening for HIV programs.
Previously, Samy served as a PEPFAR Program Manager with Nakupuna Solutions supporting the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, where he managed multi-country HIV programs across the Caribbean and Asia, coordinated with CDC, USAID, and international partners, and advised senior leadership on data-driven program strategy and performance. He has also held senior research and program leadership roles at Yale University’s AIDS Program and the George Washington University’s Gill-Lebovic Center for Community Health, where he led evaluations, managed multi-institutional research and capacity-building initiatives, and trained clinicians and public health professionals across multiple countries.
Samy has extensive experience designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems; leading organizational and workforce capacity assessments; and translating data into actionable policy and operational improvements. His work has focused on HIV, health equity, migrant health, and strengthening service delivery systems for marginalized populations, including LGBTQIA+ communities.
He holds a Master of Public Health and a Bachelor’s degree in public health-related fields and is bilingual in Spanish and English, with professional working proficiency in Portuguese. Samy is based in Washington, DC.