Dr. Belay is currently a Consultant Neonatologist at Hawassa University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, and is the clinical lead for the NEST360 program in Ethiopia.

Joshua is a pediatrician whose primary focus is the care of neonates. He graduated from medical school at Vanderbilt University in 2007 and completed his pediatric residency at the University of California San Francisco. From 2011-12 he lived in the eastern Congo delivering pediatric and neonatal care alongside Congolese colleagues. His passion is working with, and learning from, frontline clinicians.

Thomas F. Burke, MD, FACEP, FRSM is Director of the Global Health Innovations Lab in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After graduating from Albany Medical College in 1989 he completed his residency in emergency medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center Fort Lewis, WA. Dr. Burke spent 7 ½ years in the US Army and over that time was deployed with the Light Infantry as well as the 2^nd Ranger Battalion. Dr. Burke was a tactical physician for the FBI Hostage Rescue Team at both the hostage incidents in Waco Texas and Ruby Ridge Idaho. On September 11, 2012 Dr. Burke was in Benghazi, Libya when Ambassador Stevens lost his life.

Dr. Burke’s innovations research experience spans 25 years. Over that time he has pioneered several award-winning scientific advances and translated them into policy and practice; and since 2004 the majority of his work has focused on maternal, newborn, and infant survival. Dr. Burke has led a research program focused on postpartum hemorrhage for the past 10 years and co-chairs the International Federation of OBGYN working group on postpartum hemorrhage. Dr. Burke has authored of over 120 scientific manuscripts and is often invited to speak at high profile forums and leading universities around the globe. Dr. Burke is a senior faculty of the Harvard University Center for African Studies and an active member of the Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee. On June 3, 2019, in a joint UK and India government ceremony in the House of Lords, Dr. Burke was bestowed the title, “Lord of the Planet in Medical Sciences”. Dr. Burke has opened several film festivals and has been profiled for his work by BBC, NPR, FOX Television, ABC, CBS, the London Financial Times, the New Yorker, the Seattle Times, and the Boston Globe, among other news outlets. Dr. Burke is senior advisor to Harvard College’s COVID-19 Task Force on Domestic Violence and Global Alliance for Medical Innovation.

Patricia Coffey is a program adviser and leader of the Health Technologies for Women and Children group within the PATH Technology Solutions Global Program where she has worked on developing and testing reproductive health technologies through user-centered product development for the past 15 years. She holds a Ph.D. in applied population research from the Institute for Population Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and a master’s degree in population and family health and behavioral sciences and health education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Gregory Dajer is a director and co-founder of Medical Technology Transfer and Services (MTTS), an award-winning social enterprise, specializing in creating appropriate medical devices for neonatal intensive care. With a passion for innovation and problem-solving, Gregory has dedicated his career to pushing the boundaries of technology to create smarter, more efficient, and affordable systems.

Having Started his professional career in car industry, Gregory soon realized that his talent and enthusiasm can be used in more meaningful ways working with like-minded people on the other side of the world. He moved from Poland to Vietnam where he joined his wife with what turned out to be a life-long adventure in creating in impact in global public health.

Throughout his career, Gregory has worked on projects impacting millions of lives on all continents, ranging from equipping small clinics for Burmese refugees in Mae Sot to large national projects by USAID and UNICEF in Ghana and Ethiopia. His expertise lies in delivering the appropriate medical technologies to the one who need them, no matter how remote the location is.

Gregory's contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship were recognized by Shwab Foundation awarding him the title of the Social Entrepreneur of the year 2017. Together with his team at MTTS, he continues to create innovative solutions at a scale with the goal of achieving 10 million lives saved by the end of the decade.

Kristoffer has spent approximately 15 years working with technology-based innovation, including as an entrepreneur, venture investor, corporate business developer, and now as Chief of Innovation at UNICEF. His specialities include creating structures and strategies that enable ideas to be turned into products that have a real impact.

Dr. Garcini’s research, community, advocacy and policy work focuses on identifying, understanding, and addressing the health needs of historically marginalized communities from a biobehavioral and sociocultural perspective. Using a socioecological approach and a social determinants of health lens, Dr. Garcini’s interdisciplinary research is aimed at informing population health by identifying mechanisms of risk and resilience in the face of social disadvantage and life adversity. In using community-engaged science, biomarkers in the field, and a wide range of epidemiological and mixed-methodologies to the study of historically marginalized populations, Dr. Garcini’s goal is to contribute to health equity by increasing inclusivity and diversity in science.

Dr. Garcini’s contributions to equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice are evident in her track record of publications, presentations, awards received, and funding allocated. Her work and advocacy efforts have received widespread media coverage in avenues such as Univision, Telemundo, CBS, Medical News Today, U.S. News and World Report, MSN, Global News Report, and the Oprah’s Book Club, among others.

Dr. Garcini’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in the health and social sciences is evident through her service and mentoring endeavors across settings and organizations. Currently, she serves as the representative of the National Latinx Psychological Association to the Council of Representatives for the American Psychological Association (APA) and as a member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board to the APA Council. Dr. Garcini is a strong and committed advocate to increase diversity in science, including opening avenues for increased retention and representation of students and professionals from underrepresented backgrounds. She has an extensive record of mentoring students from diverse backgrounds and across the fields of psychology, medicine, nursing, public health, and marketing.

Sashi Kumar is an innovator, with an M.S. in Entrepreneurship from IIT Madras. He founded Phoenix Medical Systems in 1989 with the vision of providing world-class and affordable products. Under his stewardship, the company, started with minimal investment and became the leading biomedical manufacturer in India.

Dr. Lee is an attending pediatrician in the Brigham and Women's Faculty Newborn Service and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of Global Newborn Health at BWH and leads the Global Advancement of Infants and Mothers (AIM) Lab. Her research aims to improve the health outcomes of mothers and infants in low-resource settings.

As Vice President of Program Innovation at Global Health Labs (GHL), Ranjani Ramamurthy leads strategic efforts to integrate effective healthcare technologies into a cohesive portfolio of solutions that together address challenges impacting the delivery of quality primary healthcare in low-and middle-income countries.

Most recently, Ranjani served as Chief Product Officer for Truveta, a startup that uses aggregated data from health care systems for analytics and research. Prior to that, she was founder of EmpowerMD at Microsoft where her team built and shipped one of the first co-pilot like products developed for healthcare using conversational speech recognition and natural language processing.

Ranjani earned her MD from the University of Washington. She also holds Masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.

As Chief Executive Officer, Lina directs Gradian Health Systems’ business and strategic development, applying experience from more than 7 years in various leadership positions at Gradian and before then in the financial industry. Most recently, Lina served as Gradian’s Chief Operating Officer and focused on developing existing and new country markets, building local distribution networks, managing product sales, and overseeing training activities.

Lina’s career spans the global health and financial sectors. She spent several years working in JP Morgan Chase’s nonprofit/healthcare group and, more recently, consulted for several companies in the fields of diagnostics and maternal health, specifically focused on products designed for low-resource settings.

Lina has an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from New York University.