Dana Fisher-Livne is the National Health Law Program’s Senior Director of Mission Advancement and Legal Counsel.

As Senior Director of Mission Advancement, Dana serves on the organization’s Executive Team and provides strategic leadership across NHeLP’s fundraising, communications, and knowledge management—integrating these functions into a unified advancement strategy that supports the organization’s mission and long-term sustainability. Dana has direct responsibility for the organization’s foundation partnerships and grants portfolio, building authentic and strategic partnerships to strengthen the organization’s capacity to protect and advance the health rights of low-income and underserved individuals and communities.

As Legal Counsel, Dana serves as a senior legal advisor to the organization, providing counsel on contracts, compliance, governance, and risk management. Working closely with executive leadership and the Board of Directors, her work integrates legal judgment with organizational strategy to ensure the organization is well positioned to respond to evolving challenges.

Dana also directs NHeLP’s pro bono program—cultivating and managing relationships with leading law firms and corporate legal departments to expand the organization’s legal capacity and impact.

Dana is an attorney whose work is informed by training in both social anthropology (London School of Economics; University of Cambridge) and law (University of Cambridge; University of Pennsylvania Law School). Dana brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to questions of institutional leadership and law, policy, and social change. Prior to joining NHeLP, Dana practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Tel Aviv, clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel, led the American British Employment Law Alliance, and served as an Allan Rosenfield Fellow in the policy office of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.