Amy Lewis Gilbert, J.D., M.P.H.

Amy Lewis Gilbert has over 20 years of experience driving public health, human services, and health policy research and strategy at the intersections of law, medicine, ethics, and social justice. Recognized for shaping national, state and local health initiatives through evidence-informed policymaking, multisector collaboration, and strategic program leadership, she currently provides consulting services in these areas. As a 2023-2024 RWJF Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, she served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Executive Office of the President, Office of the Vice President. Her policy portfolio included maternal and child health, reproductive health and justice, youth behavioral health, gun violence prevention, and healthcare access.
Previously, as Chief Science Officer for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, she directed evidence-informed strategic initiatives, shaping policy and operations across Indiana’s health and human services agency and its eight divisions. During her time as faculty in the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Children’s Health Services Research division, she advanced the Medical-Legal Partnership model of care and examined strategies for identifying and addressing non-medical social, legal and structural drivers of health among at-risk youth populations. While in law school, she managed projects focused on pandemic preparedness and precision health and genetics for the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Center for Bioethics. In her early public health career, she focused on enhancing access to care as a public servant, program manager and Peace Corps volunteer.
Throughout her career, Ms. Gilbert has assumed numerous executive board and committee leadership roles including with Academy Health’s State University Partnership Learning Network, the American Public Human Services Association, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, the Indiana Public Health Association, and the Indiana Health Advocacy Coalition. She holds a BA in Psychology from Boston University, an MPH in International Public Health from the University of Alabama – Birmingham, and a JD from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law.