Dr. Michaels-Strasser is a public health professional and pediatric nursing specialist with over 30 years of experience in nursing and public health. She is the senior director for Human Resources for Health (HRH), providing leadership, guidance and direction for the development, implementation, and assessment of programs to develop human resources for health across ICAP’s portfolio of programs. This work focuses on improving acute and chronic health care as well as management and mitigation of disease outbreaks. She is the Principal Investigator for CDC, Global Fund, GAVI and Resolve to Save Lives awarded programs in South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Zambia as well as the Responding to Epidemics and Crises in Health (REACH) one-year fellowship program in New York City. She is faculty advisor to Columbia World Projects Early Career Faculty Impact Fellowship and was faculty advisor from 2022-2024 for the Obama Foundation Scholars program. She has served at senior management and training levels at various locations throughout Southern Africa with Catholic Relief Services and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Her areas of expertise include health workforce training, competency-based education, pediatric primary care, development of psychosocial support programs and health system development. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner, a member of the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nurses, a member of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, a board member of the Consortium of Universities of Global Health (CUGH) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Michaels-Strasser holds an MPH and MSc in nursing from Yale University and a PhD in public health from the University of Cape Town. She was awarded the Helen Miramontes Advocacy Award from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care in 2019 and was awarded the Drs. Anvar and Pari Velji-CUGH Planetary Health/One Health Innovation award in 2024.