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October 29

Health resilience in polycrisis: Reinforcing a health systems approach

Vanessa Kerry
Location
Building 1, Room 1208
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 United States

Event Time

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join the Department of Global Health and Population for this Brown Bag Seminar featuring Vanessa Kerry, co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health and WHO Special Envoy for Health Resilience. Please note that an HUID is required to attend this in-person seminar.

Speaker bio

Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, where she leads efforts to strengthen health systems by investing in the health workforce. Under her leadership, Seed has trained more than 47,000 health workers who are in service to over 108 million people across Africa. A physician and global health leader, she serves as WHO Special Envoy for Health Resilience and director of Global and Climate Health Policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

Speaker Information

ⓘ Harvard Chan School hosts a diverse array of speakers, invited to share both scholarly research and personal perspectives. They do not speak for the School, and hosting them does not imply endorsement of their views, organizations, or employers.