LAUNCH: Health Council

Alex Dehgan

Dr. Alex Dehgan is the Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and heads the Office of Science and Technology within the new Bureau of Policy, Planning, and Learning. As the S&T Adviser, Dr. Dehgan serves as the key focal point for implementing…

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Amie Batson

Ms. Batson joined USAID as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health and the USAID Deputy of the Global Health Initiative (GHI). Her 20-year career in global health has included positions in the WHO, UNICEF, and most recently, the World Bank. As one of the original members of the GAVI Alliance,…

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Andy Shenk

As Chief Scientist at Fonterra Cooperative Group, Andy has the global responsibility for leveraging external R&D capabilities, technologies and funding to enable Fonterra to achieve its business strategies and plans. Andy also has a governance role in Fonterra’s venture investing activities, which…

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Annie Heremans

Annie M. Heremans, M.D., Ph.D. is Vice President, Research and Development at Johnson & Johnson Consumer and Personal Products Worldwide located in Skillman, NJ. Annie earned her medical degrees from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Since then, she has been with Johnson & Johnson…

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Barbara Mittleman

Barbara B. Mittleman, M.D. is the Director of NIH’s (National Institutes of Health) Public-Private Partnership Program. In that capacity, she oversees activities to develop and implement policy, to facilitate access of NIH and a wide range of outside partners from industry, public advocacy, professional…

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Carol Dahl

Dr. Carol Dahl directs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery program, which makes grants to achieve fundamental scientific and technological advances in global health that could lead to new ways to prevent, treat, and diagnose disease.

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Dan Cherian

Mr. Cherian is the General Manager of Nike’s Sustainable Business & Innovation (SB&I) function. SB&I is mandated with enabling Nike to thrive in a future state sustainable economy—where people, planet and profit are in balance.

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David Ferguson

David Ferguson is Deputy Director of USAID’s Science and Technology office focused on applied research and challenge models for development. Before joining USAID in September, 2009, he worked on international development over the previous 5 years as an independent consultant at the nexus of development,…

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Diana Yousef

Dr. Diana Yousef, Founder and Principal of Development Innoventures, works with early-stage spin-out and social impact ventures commercializing university-generated technologies in the cleantech, sustainability, mobile tech, life sciences and global health spaces. Bringing to bear her diversity of experiences…

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Doyle Gallegos

Doyle Gallegos is the Global Practice Leader of Connectivity and Infrastructure in the ICT Sector Unit of the World Bank. In this role Mr. Gallegos leads the Bank’s telecommunications policy and regulatory agenda, regional backbone and rural connectivity programs, and implementation of PPPs (Pubic…

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Gilbert Hakim

Mr. Gilbert Hakim, founder and CEO of SCC Soft Computer, graduated from Stony Brook University, New York, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Master’s Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Prior to forming SCC in 1979, Mr. Hakim held several technical and management positions in…

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Heidi Emanuel

Title: Sr. Innovation Officer, General Mills, Inc.

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Jeff Davis

Jeffrey R. Davis, MD, MS currently serves as Director, Space Life Sciences, and as the Chief Medical Officer for the NASA Johnson Space Center. The Space Life Sciences Directorate provides the research and technology development required for exploration as well as all human health and performance support…

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Joanne Andreadis

Dr. Andreadis was appointed in December 2007 to lead Innovation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her focus is to strengthen and support a culture of innovation at CDC, to foster new approaches that accelerate translation of evidence into actions that measurably improve health, and…

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Joel Lamstein

Joel Lamstein is founder and president of John Snow Inc., an international public health consulting firm. Founded in 1978, JSI now has more than 1,600 people stationed in the United States and throughout the world working to enhance the lives of underserved and vulnerable populations. He is also president…

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Karim Lakhani

Karim R. Lakhani is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation and product development in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement…

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Lori Garver

Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Lori Beth Garver began her duties as the deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on July 17, 2009.

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Mark Griffin

Mark Griffin is a pioneer in the field of sports-themed youth development with a specific passion for using rugby as a vehicle for social change. As a past USA National Rugby Team player Mark now holds two professional national leadership positions in youth sports: one as the President of Play Rugby…

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Mark Uhran

Mr. Uhran has been a leader in evaluating practical applications of orbital space stations since 1984, when he began evaluating mission requirements for the NASA space station during the concept phase. Since that time, he has held key management positions in both the private and public sectors, and has…

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Marnie Webb

Marnie is co-CEO of TechSoup Global, a nonprofit working towards the day when every nonprofit and social benefit organization on the planet has the technology resources and knowledge it needs to operate at its full potential. TechSoup Global was founded in San Francisco in 1987 and operates programs…

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Meredith Schwarz

Meredith Schwarz leads General Mills Ventures, the company's corporate venture capital fund. She is charged with setting the direction of the fund, managing the portfolio of existing investments and developing the pipeline for new investment opportunities. Prior to her engagement with the venture fund…

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Michael Newton

Michael Newton is a Principal within Nike’s Sustainable Business and Innovation (SB&I) Lab, a strategic investment program enabling and accelerating Nike’s growth through sustainability. Prior to joining Nike Inc, Michael spent his career in the financial services space, primarily as a private…

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Mikkel Vestergaard

Mr. Frandsen is the CEO of Vestergaard Frandsen, a leading innovator, manufacturer and exporter of emergency response and disease-control textiles. Working in tandem with the world’s leading non-governmental organizations, UN organizations, government ministries and academia, Vestergaard Frandsen has…

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Mina Hsiang

Mina Hsiang is a senior associate at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm where she focuses on early-stage healthcare technology and wireless investments. An electrical engineer, she has worked building several different technology platforms, including simplified molecular diagnostic systems…

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Reed Tuckson

A graduate of Howard University, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Programs, Dr. Tuckson is currently Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs at UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune…

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Robert Braun

Dr. Robert D. Braun is the NASA Chief Technologist. In this capacity, he serves as the principal advisor and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs. He is also the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering…

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Scott Bedbury

Scott Bedbury established himself as one of the most successful marketing and business development executives by helping take two of the world’s most iconic brands, Nike and Starbucks, to global leadership positions. Since leaving the corporate side he has served as a strategic adviser to dozens…

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Shaifali Puri

Shaifali Puri is the Executive Director of Scientists Without Borders, a public/private partnership conceived of by the New York Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the United Nations Millennium Project and the Earth Institute. Scientists Without Borders provides a free web-based platform that enables…

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Sharon Hrynkow

Dr. Sharon Hrynkow is a senior health official whose career and expertise focus on major global health and science issues. She has spent over 15 years working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of State, leading major efforts in programs and policies addressing HIV/AIDS,…

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Simon Waddington

Simon serves as the President and CEO of Abunda Corporation, an early-stage, venture-backed start-up working at the forefront of nutritional science and human health. Simon also serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Burrill & Company, a global venture capital firm dedicated to the life sciences,…

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Ted Eytan

Ted Eytan currently works at Kaiser Permanente as a Director for the Permanente Federation, LLC. His experience is in working with large medical groups and technologists to leverage health information technology to ensure that patients and their families have an active role in their own health care.…

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Thomas Kalil

Thomas Kalil is currently serving as the Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council.

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Thomas Goetz

Thomas Goetz is executive editor at WIRED Magazine and author of the new book The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. Former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler calls The Decision Tree “a game changer,” and Dan Pink calls it “one of 2010's most…

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Todd Abraham

Todd Abraham is currently Senior Vice President of Research and Nutrition for Kraft Foods with global responsibility for long term, cross-business innovative research and nutrition programs as well as analytical, sensory, statistical, and fundamental science support to Business Divisions. In this…

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Tracy Haworth

Tracy currently works as the International Director for Genesis World Mission where she oversees construction of the Mercy Medical clinic in Ndumberi, Kenya as well as coordinating medical teams to Kenya, Mombasa and India. She was formerly the Surgical Unit supervisor of a Mercy Ship floating hospital…

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Wendy Taylor

Wendy Taylor is focused on identifying market-based solutions to address diseases and conditions of poverty in the developing world. Currently, she is serving as Senior Adviser on Innovative Finance and Public Private Partnerships at the US Agency for International Development and helping launch the…

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