Vanessa Kerry

Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, is the founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, a non-profit working in 22 sites in five countries and growing to help sustainably change health outcomes through leadership development, having helped train over 8,300 health professionals in Africa in its first three 3 years. Dr. Kerry is also the Associate Director of Partnerships and Global Initiatives at Mass General Global Health and Director of the program in Global Public Policy and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Kerry is a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and has been published in numerous academic journals and media outlets including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, The New York Times, and Huffington Post, highlighting the power of partnerships between medicine, public and foreign policy, and diplomacy.