Gabe Armstrong-Scott is a humanitarian public health innovation consultant and advisor to Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern.
She was a central figure in the creation of Ardern’s Matariki Fund for Women, a $20 million global health philanthropic fund backed by Melinda French Gates, which champions projects to advance women's health and security — including working with the International Rescue Committee to eliminate maternal deaths from postpartum haemorrhage, and supporting Pacific partners to eliminate cervical cancer in the Pacific Islands. Her current humanitarian work focuses on using emerging technologies to address challenges in fragile and crisis-affected settings: reaching under-immunised children, improving tuberculosis diagnostics, delivering heat-stable medications for pregnant women, and providing anticipatory supplies to populations before crises hit.
Gabe previously served as Senior Advisor in New Zealand's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, where she briefed the country's top decision-makers on national security and geopolitics and served on several national crisis response teams. She is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and was previously a Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where she received a Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship and was teaching assistant to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter; an MPE (Economics) from Victoria University of Wellington; and an A.B. from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs.