Funmi Adesanya is public health professional with over 15 years' experience implementing HIV programs at the grassroots level in the U.S. and operationalizing strategic HIV policies towards sustained HIV Epidemic Control in sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Adesanya currently serves as the PEPFAR Coordinator for the U.S. Mission in Abuja and is responsible for leading the negotiations of effective and efficient financial and programmatic transitions that ensure epidemic control is on track and to ensure performance through analysis of impact, cost and quality data delivered with U.S. government resources is attained. Ms. Adesanya is the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Oversight Committee Chair for the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria and fosters partnership, transparency and relationship building between the governments of the United States and Nigeria for impact.

Ms. Adesanya joined the Nigeria program in 2019 after serving as the PEPFAR Coordinator with Mission Lilongwe. In Malawi, Ms. Adesanya successfully supported the PEPFAR and National HIV program to reach 95-95-95 across all age groups and served as the Secretariat for the HIV and AIDS Donor Group (HADG). She also established and served as the Chair of Mission Lilongwe’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Council which established an enabling environment where diversity could be celebrated. Prior to joining the Malawi team, she served four years as the Deputy PEPFAR Coordinator with the U.S. Mission in Zimbabwe and seven years at the Department of State's Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) with the Country Oversight and Accountability team managing a portfolio of nine countries in West and Southern Africa. Ms. Adesanya has promoted public health programs in prisons, homeless shelters and served as a Global Service Corps volunteer in Arusha, Tanzania where she facilitated HIV prevention youth camps.

Ms. Adesanya earned a B.A. in International Studies with a minor in Political Science and a M.A. in International Studies with a concentration in Conflict and Cooperation from Old Dominion University in Virginia.