Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club
Best Darn Club in the World
Malaria Partners International (MPI)
Jenny Andrews will discuss Rotary’s increased focus on the scalability of Global Grants and how a few Global Grants in Zambia grew to the first Programs of Scale grant going to the $6 million Program of Scale and now to the $30 million Rotary Healthy Communities Challenge.
Malaria Partners International Malaria Partners International is a Rotarian founded and led organization focusing on advocacy within the Rotary community and on projects and large-scale programs in the regions where malaria is most prevalent. Malaria Partners International works in close alignment with national malaria control programs in endemic countries and has established chapter organizations in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and ten West African countries. MPI’s mission is to ignite an international Rotarian campaign for the global eradication of malaria. Our vision is that malaria is eliminated worldwide.
A Rotarian since 1991, Jenny Andrews is the Executive Director of Malaria Partners International and has been working in the field of global health since 2007. She became interested in global health during her first trip to Ethiopia to vaccinate children against polio and has been involved with over a dozen Rotary service projects around the world. Prior to Malaria Partners International, Jenny worked at PATH, a global health firm focused on using innovations in technology to improve health around the world. In 1997, Jenny co-founded a business called Verus which focused on technology in the US healthcare industry and was named one of Deloitte’s “Fast 500” in 2000 and Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Fastest Growing Companies” for three years running. Jenny graduated from Miami University with a degree in biology and University of Oregon with a master’s in business administration.