Vanessa Kerry

Years

Vanessa Kerry

Seed Global Health

Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, which has helped train over 16,000 health professionals in five countries in Africa. She is also a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as the associate director of partnerships and global initiatives at MGH Global Health. She directs the Global Public Policy and Social Change program in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, developing research and training on health system protection in crisis. Dr. Kerry has a number of prominent publications and has been featured on various media outlets. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur.