Please join us for the first Global Health Grand Rounds of 2014.  Dr. Vanessa Kerry, CEO of Seed Global Health and Director of Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School will be speaking on “The Future of Health Diplomacy: The Global Health Service Partnership".

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
5:00-6:00PM

Auditorium A-250
1300 York Avenue
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Biography: Dr. Vanessa Kerry
Vanessa Kerry is the founder and the CEO of Seed Global Health. Having worked in resource limited settings for over a decade, Dr. Kerry has witnessed health inequities in many places in the world and how shortages of indigenous providers in their home countries contribute to those inequities. She envisions a solution where the growing number of US health professionals interested in global health serve as educators and faculty in these countries to build a pipeline of in-country providers. The innovative program gains efficiencies through a public-private partnership between Seed Global Health, the Peace Corps and the countries where Partnership physicians and nurses serve. Concurrent with her role as CEO of Seed Global Health, Dr. Kerry is a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and helps lead educational activities at the hospital’’s Center for Global Health. Academically, she spearheads the program in Global Public Policy and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her work has included the grassroots effort that led to the creation of Seed Global Health, and policy initiatives in Rwanda, as well as looking at novel ways for U.S. foreign assistance to fund health efforts, which improve efficiency of aid delivery, develop capacity, and enhance national sovereignty. Prominent publications include ““An International Service Corps for Health: A New PreScription for Diplomacy” in the New England Journal of Medicine and“……One for Doctors Too,” a New York Times opinion piece published in 2010. She graduated from Yale University summa cum laude and Harvard Medical School cum laude, completing her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned her Master’s in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London Schools of Economics and of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.