Ace Robinson, administrative and policy Communicable Disease advocate.

The Health Design Podcast

Ace Robinson is a leading administrative and policy Communicable Disease advocate and population health expert. He serves communities disproportionately impacted by HIV, COVID-19, tuberculosis, malaria, and associated illnesses. Ace currently serves as the Chief Mission Officer at the Covid Clinic, a national non-governmental organization created in response to the global pandemic. Robinson acts as the chair for the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP); serves on the board for the Economic & Policy Impact Center (EPIC) focused on leadership development for BIPOC; serves as the chair on the Brown University Advisory Council to Eliminate Anti-Black Racism; and sits on the UCLA Center for HIV, Identification, Prevention & Treatment (CHIPTS) steering committee. Prior to Covid Clinic, Ace served in senior leadership roles at the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in Washington, DC, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York City, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Los Angeles), Partners in Health in Haiti, and the Desmond Tutu Health (formerly HIV) Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa. Robinson holds a master's degree in healthcare leadership from Brown University, a master's degree in public health from the University of Cape Town, a bachelor’s in chemistry from Duke University.