Speaker profile

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub

Faculty Director, Global Health Delivery Project - Harvard University, Ariadne Labs , Department of Global Health and Social Medicine - Harvard Medical School

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub is the Founding Director of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University and co-leads the Global Health Delivery Intensive. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She launched the Better Evidence Program at Ariadne Labs to design, test, and scale strategies to equip the current and future health workforce with the latest evidence to improve health outcomes.

In the midst of the pandemic, Dr. Weintraub expanded her portfolio to support public health decision makers to deliver COVID-19 vaccines. She advises public health departments, employers, HHS, and Ministries of Health. Her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Health Affairs, and Harvard Business Review and cited by the New York Times, BBC, Netflix, and NPR.

She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is a Health Innovator fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.