Sue Perez joined Treatment Action Group (TAG) as Policy Director in October 2007 to head TAG’s US & Global Health Policy Project. Her work at TAG involves advocating for responsible US policies and adequate US government funding for effective domestic and global AIDS, TB and viral hepatitis programs, including funding for a robust US research agenda. Globally, she currently serves as the northern civil society representative to the International Health Partnership and related initiatives (IHP+), a collection of bilateral, multilateral and technical agencies, civil society and developing countries working together to increase funding for global health and ensure greater effectiveness of aid. Sue works in coalition with US AIDS and health activists and activists in other donor and developing countries to promote and advance a common agenda of universal access to quality, equitable and comprehensive health care.

Prior to TAG, Sue worked at RESULTS Educational Fund, a grassroots advocacy organization working to generate the public and political will to end hunger and poverty. At REF, she researched USAID spending for tuberculosis and microcredit schemes in India. She developed a campaign to address the harmful impact of IMF policies in developing countries, and was part of the team that developed and managed a multi-million dollar, multi-year Gates-funded Advocacy to Control TB Internationally (ACTION) project focusing on mobilizing resources from Canada, Japan, the UK and US as well as the World Bank for TB control efforts.

Before REF, Sue supported political development programs in West Africa at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, DC, worked at the World Bank on a major cultural development conference and served as a US Peace Corps community development volunteer in a small northern city in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa.

Sue has a BA in international relations and environmental policy from Boston University and a Masters in Public Health from the George Washington University.