Rebecca Weintraub
Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rebecca Weintraub, MD is the Founding Director of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University and co-leads the Global Health Delivery Intensive. She is an Associate 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 make better decisions and improve health outcomes. Dr. Weintraub leads the Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of free, Harvard Business School-style teaching cases that allow readers and students to examine real-life programmatic, organizational, and policy-related decisions in low resource settings. The Case library builds critical thinking and analytical skills and continues to be integrated at Schools of Medicine, Business and Public health. In the midst of the pandemic, Dr. Weintraub expanded her portfolio, building tools adopted by State governments and the CDC to plan for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Weintraub is currently on the Council for Quality Health Communication and the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security on Routine Immunizations and Global Health Security. 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.