Lucy Stackpool-Moore is a leader who is passionate about addressing health inequalities and enabling the realization of human rights, particularly in relation to HIV and reducing stigma and discrimination. She draws on more than 20 years of research, programmatic and personal experience in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, the UK and Australia as a director, researcher, programme manager, lecturer, consultant, and facilitator.

Lucy founded and continues to run the social enterprise, Watipa, that provides ethical consultancy services in health, focusing on reducing stigma and discrimination, sexual health and HIV, addressing health inequities, and supporting community-led actions. Recent work has focused on co-designing an information campaign “HIV Treatment for All” with the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA), facilitating consultations and supporting revisions to Commonwealth health strategies, garnering action and attention to preventing congenital syphilis in Australia, and collaborating with the World Health Organization on a technical brief for providing good quality healthcare by ensuring dignity, equity and inclusion and reducing HIV-related stigma.

Formerly the Director of HIV Programmes & Advocacy at the International AIDS Society in Geneva, Lucy established and was the technical lead for the ‘Getting the Heart of Stigma’ initiative and also served as a Commissioner on the IAS~Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights.

Lucy maintains a connection with academia, and tutors in Global Health with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Lucy has a PhD based on original and participatory action research about HIV, stigma and human rights in Malawi, an LLM in Human Rights from the University of London, an MA in International Education and a BA in British and French History, Literature and Psychology from Harvard University. Lucy is an alumni of the Commonwealth and other scholarship programs, and as a way of ‘paying it forward’ the Watipa profits fund a scholarship and mentorship program for disadvantaged young leaders in low-income countries in parts of Africa and Asia, with a strong focus on Malawi.

Proudly Australian, Lucy draws on experience working in diverse national and community contexts in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia. She is also an accomplished sportswoman and coach, predominantly in rowing and endurance triathlon events.