Jennifer "Murphy" Wray, Director

Known to friends as Murph, Jennifer spent much of her 25-year career designing and managing large-scale public health programs focused on malaria and HIV across Africa and Asia. During her 13 years as a senior malaria technical advisor with the President’s Malaria Initiative at USAID, she provided direct technical oversight of therapeutics, diagnostics, and long-lasting insecticidal nets. Her work helped inform policy and implementation across malaria technical areas including case management and operational research. She also developed and managed PMI’s QA/QC program for non-insecticide commodities, relying on expertise in international procurement standards, quality testing, and supply chain and logistics systems. With a longstanding interest in drug development, Jennifer began her career as an organic chemistry patent examiner and later worked at the U.S. FDA. Her grounding in intellectual property, regulatory policy and market dynamics helped inform PMI and PEPFAR efforts to expand access to essential health commodities, including those used in seasonal malaria chemoprevention and the management of severe malaria.

Having lived in Morocco, Ethiopia and South Africa, Jennifer now lives in Washington, DC with her husband and rescue animals.