Our Team: Charlyn Belluzzo, Ph.D.
Charlyn Belluzzo, Ph.D.
Special Advisor, Strategic Partnerships
Dr. Belluzzo provides guidance and support to HopeLab on key strategic partnerships to increase HopeLab’s institutional resources and leverage our impact.
Dr. Belluzzo’s career has been devoted to the improvement of human health and vitality through research and program development that supports both physiological and psycho-social health for individuals and specific population groups. Drawing from her pharmaceutical research training and understanding of the scientific process, her efforts have led to contributions in the fields of nutritional, preventative and community health.
In addition to her work with HopeLab, Dr. Belluzzo serves as Co-chair of FilmAid International, a refugee project conducted in association with the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and an advisor to the UNHCR program, Women Leading for Livelihoods. She is a Founding Director of Rwanda Can’t Wait (RCW) in association with the Millennium Villages Project and UNDP in the Bugesera District, Rwanda. She is a faculty member of the Medical Knowledge Institute (MKI), based in the Netherlands, providing programs that promote and improve the quality of healthcare as a human right in the developing world, particularly addressing issues of cancer care and HIV/AIDS and a member of the board of directors for the Center for Partnership Studies and the University of Colorado Center for Global Health.
Dr. Belluzzo has earned graduate degrees and received post-graduate training from LaSalle University (Ph.D., 1995), Georgetown University School of Medicine (HIV/AIDS Research Fellowship, 1999-2000), University of Colorado School of Business (MBA, 2002), and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Ph.D., 2007).