LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE
The People Guiding Wove
Wove Health is guided by leaders committed to advancing women’s health through rigorous research, meaningful partnership, and knowledge that reflects the lives and priorities of women and communities around the world.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Governance With Purpose
Wove Health’s Board of Directors provides governance, strategic guidance, and stewardship in support of our mission. Together, our Board helps ensure that Wove grows with integrity, accountability, and a sustained commitment to improving women’s health across all stages of life.
Kandyce Hylick, PhD, MPH
Board Chair
Kandyce Hylick, PhD, MPH, brings expertise in public health, research, evaluation, strategy, and women’s health to Wove Health’s Board. As Wove Health’s founder, she also currently serves as Executive Director, leading the organization’s research strategy, partnerships, and organizational development.
Shantesica Gilliam, PhD, MPH
Board Research & Grant Compliance
Shantesica M. Gilliam, PhD, MPH, is a public health researcher and educator with expertise in health promotion and behavior, program evaluation, and community-informed research. She serves as an Assistant Professor at Spelman College and brings experience across academic research, public health evaluation, and health disparities to Wove Health’s Board.
Bianca Singleton, EdD, MBA
Treasurer & Business Compliance
Bianca Singleton, EdD, MBA, is an experienced higher education and organizational leader with expertise in strategic planning, program management, operations, and community engagement. Her work spans student success, program development and evaluation, cross-functional leadership, and large-scale community initiatives. She brings a strong business, operational, and organizational development perspective to Wove Health’s Board.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Leading Wove’s Work
Wove Health’s executive leadership translates the organization’s mission and strategic direction into research, partnerships, programs, and action.
Kandyce Hylick, PhD, MPH
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
“I started Wove because I believe better questions can lead to better evidence—and better evidence can change women’s lives.”
Kandyce Hylick, PhD, MPH, is a public health researcher and leader specializing in behavioral, maternal and women’s health and Founder and Executive Director of Wove Health. Her work spans women’s and maternal health research, program evaluation, data and measurement, health policy, and community-informed public health. Across her career, she has worked at the intersection of research, practice, policy, and community, using evidence not simply to describe health challenges, but to help identify where systems can do better.
Her research has included maternal mental health, health measurement and psychometrics, the experiences of Black pregnant and postpartum women, and the evaluation of programs and systems designed to improve health. Her broader public health work has ranged from community-based research and national policy advocacy to large-scale federal evaluation and data initiatives.
WHY I FOUNDED WOVE
As a mother, scientist, and lifelong problem-solver, Kandyce has long been curious about the questions that have not yet been asked and the problems that may remain unsolved because no one has looked closely enough. Her passion for women’s health comes from a desire to improve not only health outcomes, but the everyday well-being of women throughout their lives.
Travel and learning from other cultures have also shaped how she thinks about health. Experiencing different communities and approaches to health and well-being reinforced her belief that no single discipline, system, or part of the world holds all the answers. There is tremendous value in listening, learning across cultures, and bringing different forms of knowledge together.
That belief became Wove Health: a place where science, data, community knowledge, and global perspectives can come together to ask better questions, uncover overlooked gaps, and build knowledge that meaningfully improves women’s lives.
ADVISORY BOARD
Expertise That Expands Our Perspective
Wove Health is building a multidisciplinary Advisory Board to bring additional expertise, lived experience, and global perspectives to our work. Advisors will help strengthen our research, challenge our thinking, identify emerging opportunities, and ensure that the questions we pursue remain relevant to the women and communities we seek to serve.
Our goal is to bring together voices across disciplines, life stages, communities, and geographies, because better women’s health knowledge requires more than one kind of expertise.
WORK WITH WOVE
Help Shape What Comes Next.
Wove Health is growing a global community of researchers, practitioners, organizations, advocates, and partners who share our commitment to building better knowledge for women’s health across all stages of life.