Sara Brandsema Handal

Associate Director, Global Health Partnerships, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Sara has been with the IRC since January 2015 and is on the organization’s Global Corporate Partnerships team. With over twelve years of private sector engagement experience, she has worked with companies in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, technology, finance, and retail sectors. Currently, Sara oversees the IRC’s global health partnerships team, providing strategic direction for and managing the organization’s multifaceted, relationships with corporations in the health, pharma and adjacent industries. Those partnerships she has built in the global health and humanitarian space have reached tens of thousands of people in more than 20 countries with services including immunization, maternal and child health care, nutrition, clean water and sanitation, and the treatment and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases.