Noah Metheny

Noah Metheny is a public servant with nearly two decades of experience in global health development and diplomacy, human rights, and health equity. He currently serves at the US CDC as a Senior Advisor, and previously worked for more than six years at the USAID in the Office of HIV, where his portfolio focused on global health equity, human rights, and multilateral health diplomacy.

Noah also served for nearly three years at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Earlier in his career, he spent almost a decade in civil society leadership roles, including as Director of Policy at MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights and as a Public Health Legal Educator with the Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group in Bangkok.

Noah has served as an MPH Faculty Lecturer and Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Health at the University of Pennsylvania since 2021. His work also has been recognized through participation in the Taiwan–U.S. Policy Leadership Program and the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights’ Global LGBTQ+ Changemakers initiative. In July 2024, he was appointed by Maryland Governor Wes Moore as a Commissioner on the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights, bringing his legal and LGBTQ+ expertise to state-level anti-discrimination enforcement.

Noah’s research areas of interest include how Taiwan’s inclusive governance model can inform US-Taiwan-European cooperation on health security and climate change; and how Taiwan’s human rights leadership (especially on LGBTQ+ rights) enhances its global standing and how this experience can inform trilateral dialogue on democratic values and resilience.|

Noah holds a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, an MPH in Law and Public Health from Harvard University, and a BA in Political Science from Swarthmore College.