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Rachel Fowler is a Program Analyst in USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact, which brings business-minded approaches to USAID’s Bureau for Global Health to catalyze innovations and apply best practices to the development, introduction, and scale-up of critical health interventions. Rachel joined the Center in 2016 and has supported the team’s work across innovative financing, market shaping, and human-centered design (HCD), including the development of CII’s Investing for Impact report, as well as the Dapivirine Ring Design Guide that provides design tools to increase the uptake of an HIV prevention method for women in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining USAID, Rachel worked for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency as a Research Intern, in addition to conducting research on Syrian refugee health in Jordan. Rachel holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Business Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.