Pam Lowney is the CEO of Fistula Foundation. Since the earliest days of Pam’s career, connecting people to the care they need has been a throughline—from running a free HIV clinic in San Francisco in the early 1990s, when the stigma of this diagnosis was high and treatments scarce, to helping migrant farmworkers in Arizona access basic health services, to today, where she leads a talented team of people who are dedicated to helping women access life-transforming care.
Pam became CEO in September 2025 after serving as chief operating officer, a role she assumed in 2022 following the retirement of the Foundation’s deputy director of 20 years. As COO, Pam worked closely with the Foundation’s leadership, overseeing its day-to-day management and driving systems and technology improvements across programs, fundraising, and operations.
Pam joined the Foundation in 2018 to overhaul its website, creating secure donation tools and a publishing platform to expand awareness of fistula and showcase the life-changing repair surgeries made possible by donor support.
Prior to her roles at the Foundation, Pam spent 14 years driving web strategy at Stanford Medicine, a leading academic medical center, helping to connect patients, doctors, and researchers with each other and vital health information. r. As digital content lead for Stanford Health Care, she led the content strategy effort to transform the healthcare system’s online user experience and better serve the needs of patients across the care journey. In 2017, she launched a digital content program, supporting care delivery across Stanford’s 250+ complex care clinics and primary care network.
Pam also served as lead content strategist on two redesigns of the medical center’s web environment. Both projects received a national Award of Excellence by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), an industry top honor.
Pam’s professional path is grounded in a passion for improving human health, shaped by her early experience as a journalist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and her hands-on work connecting underserved communities in the U.S. to essential health care, including serving in roles at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco and at Centro Adelante Campesino, a migrant farmworker center in Arizona. Pam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s in public health degree in health management and policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.