Elizabeth Blowers-Nyman

Elizabeth joined the AMIGOS leadership in 2013 as part of a long history with AMIGOS.

Elizabeth is the Executive Director, U.S. Vaccine Public Policy and Government Relations for Merck. She joined Merck in 1998.

Prior to Merck, Elizabeth served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. There she worked in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of Nepal’s nationwide polio eradication initiative. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in Health Policy and Management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Boston College. During graduate school, Elizabeth spent time at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in Measles Elimination Activity.

Elizabeth has a long history with AMIGOS, starting as a Volunteer in Paraguay in 1991. She then went on to serve as a Project Supervisor and two time Country Director [at that time, she oversaw multiple projects – 2 in Paraguay in 1993 and the 3 in Costa Rica in 1994], field staff representative to the International Board of Directors and AMIGOS Fellow. From 2005-10, she returned to AMIGOS as a member of the Board of Directors and AMIGOS Fellow.