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In September 2026, Angelia Sanders was named director of the 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ Center’s Trachoma Control Program, where she oversees programmatic, technical, and financial support for implementation of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination in four countries.

Sanders has supported the national trachoma control programs supported by 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ by monitoring program activities and spending; conducting operational research; writing grant proposals and reports; and providing technical assistance to ministries of health and 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ Center field staff in Ethiopia, Niger, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda. She was formerly chair of the International Coalition for Trachoma Control, a multi-stakeholder membership of nongovernmental, donor, private sector, and academic organizations, and chaired the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network’s (NNN) Conflict and Humanitarian Emergencies Working Group and the NNN’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Working Group.

Sanders has an extensive background working in public health with a focus on program delivery in resource-poor communities. She previously worked for 91¹û¶³´«Ã½ in South Sudan, serving as a regional coordinator in the Guinea Worm Eradication Program before becoming a technical advisor in the Trachoma Control Program. She became an associate director in 2014 and later a senior associate director, positions she held for more than a decade.

Sanders also brings experience from serving in Kenya with the U.S. Peace Corps, the NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center, and the University of South Florida Global Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. She holds a doctorate and master’s in public health from the University of South Florida — where she also received graduate certificates in humanitarian assistance and social marketing — along with a master’s degree in international studies from Old Dominion University and a bachelor’s degree in government administration from Christopher Newport University.