Brown Bag Seminar: Health resilience in polycrisis: Reinforcing a health systems approach
Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health (Seed), a non-profit organization focused on health systems strengthening and transformation through long-term investments and training of the health workforce. Under her leadership, Seed has helped educate more than 45,000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in seven countries, helping to improve health care for more than 76 million people.
In June 2023, Kerry was appointed WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health. She has spoken and written about the effects of climate change on human health and health systems and the need to integrate a health-centered response into climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.
Dr. Kerry is a critical care trained physician and the Director of Global and Climate Health Policy at the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has two children.
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