Amy Lockwood

Dr. Amy Lockwood is the Public Health Partnerships Lead for the Wastewater Program at Verily, where she contributes to the development of a global surveillance system for pathogens, chemicals, and other organisms to enhance public health and security. 

Dr. Lockwood has collaborated with health departments in San Francisco and Marin County, California on COVID-19 testing, emergency preparedness, and community engagement initiatives. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, she held senior administrative roles at the Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, as deputy director for the AIDS Research Institute, including the Clinical Virology Lab, and the Center for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy. 

Previously, Dr. Lockwood served as the Deputy Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University, Executive Director of Project Health Children (an NGO focused on micronutrient malnutrition), and Director of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program and Deputy County Director - India for the Clinton Foundation.

Dr. Lockwood earned her PhD in Global Health Sciences from UCSF, with research focused on the hypothesis that enhancing leadership and management in global health programs will accelerate progress towards health outcomes. She also holds an MBA from Stanford University, and both an MS in marketing and a BS in communications from Northwestern University. Before her career in public health, she was a strategy consultant specializing in branding and communications.