Amy Uihlein
Amy Uihlein is a graduate candidate in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program at Georgetown University, pursuing a concentration in Global Politics & Security. Prior to joining MSFS, she earned her B.A. from University of Pittsburgh, where she studied religious studies, history, and West European studies. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she focused her studies on international law. While in law school, she served as an intern on religious liberty and foreign policy for the Office of Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. She also interned as a Political and Economic Affairs officer with the U.S. Embassy Dublin. She was a legal fellow with Georgetown Law’s International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, where she drafted legislation proposals to reform sexual offense laws in Malawi. Upon graduation from law school, she was selected by the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program, where she initially worked on appropriations law for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She progressed to providing policy assistance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Center for Global Health (CGH), both as a special assistant for the Principal Deputy Director in the Office of the Director and as a public health policy analyst in the CGH Global Immunization Division. Most recently, upon completion of her fellowship, she joined the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, specializing in drafting regulatory legal language related to health information privacy and information blocking.