Joan Sullivan Bio

Joan Sullivan is a Senior Program Officer for ACHAP, the $100 million public-private partnership between the Government of Botswana, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Merck Company Foundation. She is responsible for the design of multisectoral, multidonor responses to HIV/AIDS which focus on the underlying determinants of the epidemic such as alcohol abuse and mobility. To keep the right side of her brain stimulated, Joan never leaves home without a camera. Her latest acquisition is the Canon EOS 10D digital camera. Throughout her twenty-year career in international health, Joan has visited dozens of developing countries and left behind a trail of color images from Africa and Asia which effectively marry her joint passions for public health and documentary photography. Joan currently lives in Gaborone, Botswana, with her four-year old daughter, Anna. Joan’s French Canadian husband, Jean Lemay, has recently relocated to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where he has taken up the post of West Africa Regional Director for Save The Children Canada. The couple has yet to work out the logistical arrangements of maintaining a 5,000 km relationship. For more information, you can contact Joan via email at joan@achap.org.