CoviDB

About

What Is CoviDB?

CoviDB is a community-edited, expert-curated, platform organizing resources across a comprehensive set of topics relating to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic for public use.

CoviDB aims to bring trustworthy, expert-vetted, COVID-19 information to the public. When the pandemic began, and accurate information was sorely needed, our community of experts hand-selected reliable content to be shared on this website. Over the years, with our global community producing more content, we created a new platform which allows us to bring more COVID-19 news that experts trust to the public faster. We automatically pull these articles into the new database and allow users to filter articles. We also use machine learning to help generate summaries of the articles that allow the reader to understand the article’s content at a glance. This is in contrast to headlines that are often clickbait and summaries that bury the lede for the most important details.

Who Created This Site?

The site was launched by TeachAids working with faculty, students, and alumni from Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and The University of Colorado at Boulder, among others around the world. In addition, we've partnered with leadership from the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Stanford's Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) and the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) at the University of California, San Francisco, to help develop and distribute our content, programming, and study materials globally. The original site was conceived, built, and launched in one week, by a team working entirely remotely while social distancing. We hope this site can help journalists, students, business leaders, and everyone else that is looking for reliable information about COVID-19.

Special Thanks

Our heartfelt thanks to the dedicated team of volunteers who pulled together from around the world and have collectively dedicated thousands of hours to build this database. This team includes: Diana Anthony, Venkat Arun, Taggart Bonham, Christine Chen, Daniel Daneshvar, Shuman Ghosemajumder, Micah Gilbert, Mary Gillett, Christin Glorioso, Anne Gould, Federico Reyes Gomez, Shravya Gurrapu, Paitra Houts, Liz Hurder, Sarrah Hussain, Govind Jeevan, Michelle Kafka, Aparna Khare, Pranavi Kethanaboyina, Adam Keppler, Francesca Kim, Peter Knowles, Christian Kontaxis, Alex Koritz, Sriram Krishnan, Brice Jansen, Sergio Luna, Nicolas Machado, Nruthya Madappa, Lauren McLaughlin, Elena Mosse, Surabhi Mundada, Suraj Venkata Raman, Anima Shrestha, Piya Sorcar, Kevin Su, Payal Sutton, Anafia Thomas, Alex Tsai, Randy Warren, Emily Yuan, Jason Zhao, Anaum Ahmad, Sepehr Asgari, Nathaniel Braun, Jessica Boyle, Kirsten Blanco, Amy Bugwadia, Karen Chen, Ryan Crowley, Ritesh Dontula, Isabella Fish, Joshua Garnett, Megha Govindu, Shravya Gurrapu, Rachel Hyzny, Roberto Lama, Daria Lenz, Les Levy, Yash Mahajan, Elodie Mortimer, Shayna Naranjo, Cali Nguyen, Leila Orszag, Siri Peddineni, Sierra Porter, Neel Redkar, Dylan Ryder, Agrima Seth, Sanjana Taware, Ciauna Tran, Rohan Tirumale, Sethuraman T V, Shriya Vejendla, Tanya Vohra, Kiran Wijesooriya, and Nathan Yap.

Advisors

Scott Anderson

Chief Customer Officer at SyncThink

Scott Anderson is a Chief Customer Officer at SyncThink. Before joining SyncThink in 2017, Anderson spent 10 years with Stanford University as the lead Director of Athletic Training. During his tenure, Anderson worked diligently to build and grow the infrastructure of the sports medicine program. As former chair of the Pac-12 Sports Medicine committee, he has been influential in conference wide research focused on improving student-athlete health and wellness. He is also an internationally recognized speaker and holds a number of designations including a certification from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. He is an approved clinical instructor (ACI), and maintains certifications in the functional movement screen (FMS), selective functional movement assessment (SFMA) and Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS).

Diana Anthony

Program Manager, Stanford Neurosurgical Simulation and Virtual Reality Center

Diana Anthony currently serves the Stanford University School of Medicine Neurosurgery Department as the Program Manager of the Neurosurgical Simulation and Virtual Reality Center. She supports the team by reconstructing patient-specific anatomy in 360 degrees/VR environments to help with patient education and engagement, surgical planning, and intraoperative guidance. The “Aha!” moment patients experience when they see their anatomy this way, and the unique beauty that comes from the creativity of designing the reconstruction of all the complexities of the human brain are her two favorite experiences of the job. Anthony also has experience managing the operations of a global non-profit, the Range of Motion Project, in Quito, Ecuador and has served her current, San Francisco community through being a public middle-school educator of science. Empowering people to live independently and empowering kids to study the world around them with a certain scientific curiosity are also passions of hers. In her free time, Anthony skis, climbs, backpacks, dives, runs, paints, and reads voraciously!

Dr. Terrence Blaschke

Senior Program Officer in Clinical Pharmacology, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Terrence Blaschke is a Senior Program Officer in Clinical Pharmacology at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research examines the clinical pharmacology of drugs used with HIV-infected patients. His research focuses on the quality of antiretroviral drugs and the ability of patients’ to access drugs. In addition, Dr. Blaschke collaborates with the AMPATH program in Eldoret, Kenya, a comprehensive initiative to build the public sector’s HIV prevention and treatment capacity in urban and rural settings. He is on the Organizing Committee for a workshop on Clinical Pharmacology in HIV therapy. He holds an M.D. from Columbia University.

Bernadette Clavier

Director, Center for Social Innovation and Emerging Projects

Ms. Bernadette Clavier is the director of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford GSB. The center educates insightful leaders for social and environmental change. Prior to this, she was in charge of the center’s social innovation programs and before that its communications, digital strategy, and conferences. Ms. Clavier came to the United States from France, where she worked as vice president of seasonal products for E. Leclerc, the French retail chain equivalent of Wal-Mart. She was a Founding Board Member of Spring Impact, and a Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund. She sits on the board of ICSF, a nonprofit consulting organization that supports the scaling of social ventures. She holds an MBA from HEC Paris, speaks French and English, and in her spare time she advises social entrepreneurs, advocates for autism spectrum disorders awareness, and works as part of the Climate Reality Project team.

Dr. Shelley Goldman

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and for Student Affairs, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

Dean Shelley Goldman is the Associate Dean of Students & Faculty Affairs at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She is also a Professor of Learning Sciences & Technology Design at the School of Education and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy). Her interest in educational anthropology drives her research on real-world contexts of learning. At Stanford’s d.school K-12 Lab, she leads a project to learn how to effectively implement design thinking as a tool for classroom learning. Dean Goldman is currently a principal investigator for the Stanford Education for Global HIV/AIDS, Infectious Disease, and Epidemics project. She holds an Ed.D. from Columbia University.

Dr. Seble Kassaye

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University

Dr. Seble Kassaye is trained in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology. Her research interests include issues related to mother-to-child transmission, HIV prevention, drug resistance, and the monitoring of HIV treatment. She has worked as an instructor of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University and has practiced medicine as an Infectious Diseases physician at Stanford Hospital and the San Mateo County Medical Center. She is now working as an Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She received her M.S. in Epidemiology from Stanford University and her M.D. from the University of Chicago.

Dr. David Katzenstein

Professor of Infectious Diseases Emeritus at the Stanford School of Medicine

Dr. David Katzenstein was a Professor of Infectious Diseases Emeritus at the Stanford School of Medicine. He co-founded the Principal Investigator of the Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project, a community-based research organization. He conducted HIV-related research throughout the United States, Africa, and Asia. His laboratory and clinical efforts span the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and HIV Prevention Trials Network. He focused on prevention of viral evolution, mother-to-child-transmission, and drug resistance in the context of scaling-up antiretroviral drug treatment for AIDS in Africa and Asia. He held an M.D. from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

CoviDB for Kids is dedicated in memory of Dr. David Katzenstein. An ardent believer that education was key to solving global health challenges, he was an active volunteer with TeachAids since it's founding in 2009, and helped launch the CoviDB platform. He passed away on January 25, 2021 of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe surrounded by medical staff he had trained and mentored, pursuing his life's mission, which was to eliminate suffering.

Aparna Khare

Speech Scientist, Amazon

Aparna Khare is a Speech Scientist at Amazon working on speech and language technologies. She was part of the science team that launched the Amazon Echo, a first of its kind speaker that uses far field speech recognition. Prior to that, she was a software engineer at Cisco where she worked on developing a speaker identification system. At TeachAids, she manages several programming elements and supported in the development and launch of 14 animated software versions. She is an active member of the Stanford chapter of Asha for Education, a nonprofit focused on bringing about socio-economic change in India by means of education. She holds an M.S. from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Paul Kim

Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

Dr. Paul Kim is the Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He has been leading various academic technology initiatives and teaching graduate level courses related to learning technology and digital innovations at Stanford since 2001. His courses focus on contextualized innovations in education, mobile empowerment design, and enterprising higher education systems. He is currently one of leading researchers for Programmable Open Mobile Internet, a National Science Foundation project to develop and evaluate wireless mobile computing and interactive systems for K-20 learning and assessment scenarios. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from the University of Southern California.

Dr. S. V. Mahadevan

Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center, Director of Global Affairs and Strategy at the Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Mahadevan is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center and Director of Global Affairs and Strategy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Mahadevan founded Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI) and served as the Director of this program for 15 years. Previously, Dr. Mahadevan was the Medical Director and Associate Chief of Stanford Emergency Medicine from 2000-2012, and was the founding department chair of Stanford Emergency Medicine from 2015-2017.

Dr. Gary Mukai

Director, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)

Dr. Gary Mukai is the director of the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. SPICE focuses its work in three areas: curriculum development for elementary and secondary schools; teacher professional development; and distance learning education. Before joining SPICE in 1988, he was a school teacher in Japan and California for ten years. In honor of his cross-cultural international work, the Japanese government awarded him with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University.

Anne Firth Murray

Founding President, Global Fund for Women

Anne Firth Murray, a New Zealander, is the founding president of the Global Fund for Women, a grant-making organization that has distributed more than $61 million to advance the rights of women and girls in 167 countries. She is the author of two books: From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poorer Countries and What They Are Doing About It and Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the African Women’s Development Fund, and as the chair of the Global Justice Center. In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as one of a group of women dedicated to social justice and peace.

Dr. Kamran Naim

Head of Open Science for CERN

Kamran Naim is the Head of Open Science for CERN, one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Naim has a portfolio of extensive international experience, working for the U.S. Department of State, USAID, National Academies and World Bank programs to support global scientific capacity building through broader access and visibility of research. He is currently a doctoral researcher and educator at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and holds a Masters Degree in International Science and Technology Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University.

Dr. Doug Owens

Director of the Center for Health Policy, Stanford University

Dr. Douglas Owens is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, and Director of the Center for Health Policy and of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University and Stanford Medicine. Dr. Owens is a Professor of Medicine. He is also by courtesy Professor of Health Research and Policy, and Professor of Management Science and Engineering. Dr. Owens is the Vice-Chairperson of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. His research focuses on preventive and therapeutic interventions for various illnesses, including HIV and AIDS. Dr. Owens is a general internist and received an MS from Stanford University and MD from UCSF.

Dr. Roy Pea

David Jacks Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences, Stanford University

Prof. Roy Pea is David Jacks Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University, Co-PI of the LIFE Center and Co-Director of the Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research (H-STAR) Institute. He has published widely on K-12 learning and education, especially in STEM fostered by advanced technologies. He is co-author of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan for the US Department of Education. In 2004-2005, he was President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. He also served from 1999-2009 as a Director for Teachscape, a company he co-founded with CEO Mark Atkinson. He received his doctorate in developmental psychology from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Dr. George Rutherford

Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Epidemiology at UCSF

Dr. George Rutherford is the Director for the Institute for Global Health, the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, and the head of the Division of Prevention Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He is also Professor of Pediatrics and of Family and Community Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Health Administration at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at Stanford University and the Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Rutherford is board certified in pediatrics and in general preventive medicine and public health, and has spent the majority of his professional career in public health practice, with a primary emphasis on the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases.

Dr. Joel Samoff

African Studies Adjunct Professor, Stanford University

Prof. Joel Samoff is Adjunct Professor of Humanities and Sciences and the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. With a background in history, political science, and education, he researches and teaches about education and development. Concerned with public policy as well as research, and especially with the links between them, Prof. Samoff works regularly with UNESCO and international aid agencies involved in African education as a researcher and policy advisor. He has served as the principal advisor for the Joint Evaluation of External Support to Basic Education. He is an Advisory Editor for the International Journal of Educational Development and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Educational Research in Africa and the Southern Africa Review of Education.

Dr. Lee Sanders

Division Chief of General Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine

Lee M. Sanders, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Co-Director of the Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention (CPOP), and Division Chief for General Pediatrics at Stanford University. Dr. Sanders is a national expert in the fields of health literacy and health disparities. With funding from the NIH, CDC, and other national agencies and foundations — Dr. Sanders directs the Stanford Health Literacy Lab, which aims to address child disparities (including obesity, chronic illness, and educational achievement), by reimagining primary-care and community systems to support parents and families. Through this lab, Dr. Sanders also leads multi-disciplinary teams that provide analytic guidance to public policy at the local, state and national levels. He has served as an advisor to several national agencies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Cancer Society, the Institute of Medicine, the CDC, and the FDA. At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Gardner Packard Children’s Health Center, he provides primary care to children with medical and/or social complexity.

Dr. Tina Seelig

Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Prof. Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Management Science and Engineering department, and within the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Prof. Seelig has won several awards, including the 2009 Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering education. Her latest books are Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World, and Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School where she studied Neuroscience.

Dr. Robert Siegel

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University

Prof. Robert Siegel is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the Center of African Studies, and the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University. He is the Director of the Preclinical Infectious Disease Curriculum and was one of the original Co-directors of Global Health Scholarly Concentration at Stanford Medical School. His research explores medical education and curriculum development, particularly pertaining to infectious disease, virology, HIV, and molecular biology. He has received many awards for his dedication to research and teaching, including the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an M.D. and Master’s in Education from Stanford University.

Dr. Darvin Scott Smith

Chief of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Permanente

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford Medical School

Darvin (Scott) Smith graduated in biochemistry from Bowdoin College in Maine and went on to study tropical public health at Harvard School of Public health before attending medical school in his home state of Colorado, where he grew up. He worked on developing diagnostic tests and epidemiology (Leishmania and Onchocerciasis) in Cali Colombia on a Fulbright scholarship before finally moving to California where he completed residency at Stanford Medical School, then a Fellowship in Infectious Disease & Geographic Medicine. He now serves as Chief of the Dept of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City California, and he teaches several classes at Stanford.

Dr. Randall Stafford

Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Randall Stafford is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices at Stanford University. He is trained in both Internal Medicine and Epidemiology. Before coming to Stanford in 2001, he was on the faculty of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. His research focuses on: evaluating the quality and cost-effectiveness of how chronic disease medications are used; conducting randomized clinical trials testing the efficacy of online prevention tools and nurse case-management; and performing comparative effectiveness research, including the formulation of related health care policy.

Dr. Paul Wise

Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society, Stanford University

Dr. Paul Wise is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as Senior Fellow in the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, at Stanford University’s Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also co-Director of the March of Dimes Center for Prematurity Research at Stanford University, and serves as a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Wise received his A.B. degree in Latin American Studies, M.D. degree from Cornell University, a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and did his pediatric training at the Children’s Hospital in Boston.

Dick Gould

John L. Hinds Director of Tennis Emeritus, Stanford University

Dick Gould is the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis Emeritus at Stanford University. As head coach of Stanford Men’s Tennis for 38 years, he led the team to 17 NCAA Team Championships (top three among all NCAA coaches), 10 NCAA singles champions, and 7 NCAA doubles championship teams. Thirteen of his former players hold 72 Grand Slam championships (singles, doubles, mixed), including tennis legends John McEnroe, Mike Bryan, and Bob Bryan. Gould’s leadership and service have been recognized widely over the years, including by the U.S. Olympic Committee and U.S. Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) among many others.

Dr. Anurag Mairal

Director of Global Outreach Programs, Stanford Biodesign

Dr. Anurag Mairal is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford and the Director, Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Biodesign. He is also lead faculty for Technology Innovation and Impact at Stanford Center for Global Health. He is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a global healthcare strategy consulting firm. Prof. Mairal has an extensive background in medical technology development and commercialization, collaborating with partners in the U.S., India, China, and other emerging markets. An alumnus of global health nonprofit PATH, he serves as the Chair of its Bay Area Leadership Council. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. His work has been published in more than 30 publications, and he has been issued seven patents

Dr. Young Sung Lee

Former President National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Young Sung Lee, MD, Ph.D. is the former president of the National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency(NECA), a governmental agency that conducts Health Technology Assessment(HTA) research based on scientific evidence. Dr. Lee is also a professor of Health Informatics and Management at the College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University. He is currently serving as a President and board member of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics. He has contributed to development of the medical informatics in Korea over the last two decades. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technology and was a member of the Committee on Infrastructure Technologies, National Science and Technology Council, the Nation's highest decision-making body on science and technology policies under the President of the Republic of Korea.

Betsy Scolnik

Former President of Digital Media, National Geographic

Betsy Scolnik is the founder of Scolnik Enterprises, where she has consulted on digital business and communications for major philanthropic and commercial media organizations including Stand Up To Cancer, The Streisand Foundation, The Paley Center for Media, TED, and Wolf Films/Law & OrderLaw, and more. Previously Betsy was the Director of Content and Distribution for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the President of Digital Media for National Geographic. She held senior roles at AOL Time Warner and Xerox. Scolnik also sits on the board of Consumer Reports and Women’s March Global.

Dr. Tsetan Dorji Sadutshang

Chief Medical Officer, Delek Hospital in Dharamsala, Personal Physician to His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Dr. Tsetan Dorji Sadutshang has served as Personal Physician to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama since 1988. In addition to these duties, Dr. Sadutshang serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the prestigious Delek Hospital in Dharamsala, India. After obtaining medical degrees at the universities of Chennai and Wales, Dr. Sadutshang received a Master of Public Health at Harvard University on a Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Sadutshang is a founding board member of the Central Council of Traditional Medicine and a board member of the Tibet Charity. He has generously donated his voice and likeness to the role of the sage male doctor in the Tibetan version of the TeachAids software.

Dr. Grant Miller

Associate Professor, Stanford School of Medicine

Grant Miller is Associate Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. His work has been published in top journals across disciplines, including economics, demography, science, and medicine. Professor Miller was also Director of the Stanford Center for International Development, and he led its growth into the Stanford King Center for Global Development, serving as its founding Director. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an affiliate of other leading research organizations focused on international development (including the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the International Growth Centre). Professor Miller received a BA from Yale University, a MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University.

Dr. Raj Doshi

Director of the India Biodesign Program and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Rajiv Doshi is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and Director of the India Biodesign Program, a collaboration with the Government of India to train the next generation of Indian medical technology innovators. He serves as a pro-bono board member of TEAMFund, an impact investment fund focused on medical technology innovation for India and Africa. He is the Founder and CEO of Piper Biosciences which develops medical foods to support the management of chronic medical conditions. He has 70 patents and is the inventor of nasal EPAP to treat sleep apnea and snoring. A Soros Fellow, he earned degrees in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and medicine from Stanford University.

David Milestone

Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company

David Milestone is a senior advisor with McKinsey & Company in its social sector practice based in Washington, DC. Most recently, Milestone was Director (acting) of USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact (CII). Prior to joining USAID, he held various roles at Stryker, where he led innovation, introduction, and strategy initiatives in India. Milestone has also worked as a management consultant with AT Kearney and as a design engineer at Boeing. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an MS in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Michele Barry

Senior Associate Dean of Global Health, Stanford University School of Medicine

Michele Barry, MD, FACP, FASTMH is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health at Stanford University. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar Award program and a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dean Barry is an elected member of the National Academy of Science Medicine and has been selected for Best Doctors in America. She is the 2018 recipient of AMWA’s highest award – the Elizabeth Blackwell medal for creating pathways for women in medicine.