Jennifer (Jenny) Schechter has a deep passion for making sure quality healthcare reaches the people who need it most. Jenny has been working alongside community activists, public health experts, and government officials to strengthen healthcare delivery for nearly twenty years. Jenny began working as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2004 in Togo, where she was privileged to partner with a community-based association of people living with HIV/AIDS, called AED-Lidaw. Integrate Health grew out of this partnership. Since taking on the role of CEO in 2012, Jenny has helped to expand Integrate Health’s impact in the fight to end preventable deaths of women and children. Working in the West African nations of Togo since 2004, and Guinea since 2022, Integrate Health collaborates with communities and the Ministry of Health to implement and test proactive, integrated, community health delivery innovations. The innovations developed by Integrate Health and the Ministry of Health are contributing to the global movement to bring about systems-level change in the way primary healthcare is delivered. Under Jenny’s leadership, Integrate Health has encouraged the recruitment of women across all levels of the organization, resulting in over 95% of Community Health Workers and over 70% of total staff members identifying as women. Integrate Health has been recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative and supported by several social impact investors. Jenny is a recipient of the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship with the Mulago Foundation, a recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, and a recipient of the Cordes Fellowship. She was recognized as one of the University of Washington School of Public Health’s top 50 Impact Changemakers and as one of the National Peace Corps Association’s 40 under 40. Jenny serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Community Health Impact Coalition. Jenny received a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from Georgetown University and Master’s degrees of Social Work and Public Health from the University of Washington. She resides in New York with her husband and Integrate Health co-founder Kevin Fiori and their two sons.
Jennifer Schechter
