Team

Rebecca Weintraub

Faculty Director, Global Health Delivery Project
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

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.

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Julie Rosenberg, MPH

Deputy Director, Global Health Delivery Project
Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs
Julie Rosenberg, MPH

Julie has worked with the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard since its inception. Over the years, she has contributed to supporting high-value delivery programs and frontline providers in resource-limited settings through multiple channels. Julie has helped research, document, and disseminate what works in health care delivery through more than 45 Harvard Business School-style teaching cases and analytical teaching guides, and she has shared some of those lessons through her support of the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer training program. She helps lead the Better Evidence work, now done in collaboration with Ariadne Labs, to improve access and uptake of evidence-based, digital clinical resources for practitioners. She has contributed to building analytical frameworks, writing scholarly articles, and executing several research projects commissioned by global health institutes and the World Health Organization. Prior to GHD, Julie worked in clinical research at Emory University School of Medicine and in community-based nonprofit organizations in Latin America and the US. Julie has an MPH in epidemiology and global health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a BA in anthropology from Harvard College. She is currently completing her DrPh.

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Sara Pellegrom, MPH

Senior Project Manager, Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs
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Sara Pellegrom, MPH, is the Senior Project Manager for the Better Evidence program at Ariadne Labs. In her role, she supports a portfolio of projects that help the current and future health workforce integrate the latest evidence into their decision making to improve health outcomes.

Previously, Sara worked at the Torchlight Collective, where she advised donors and organizations, created training resources, and developed technical communications materials focused on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights. She also worked at Women Deliver on the Young Leaders Program, supporting youth advocates to participate in capacity-building activities, grant opportunities, and advocacy strategies. 

Sara holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Rhodes College.

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Safia Abou-Zamzam

Research Assistant II, Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs
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Safia Abou-Zamzam is a Research Assistant on the Better Evidence team. In this role, she supports the Better Evidence for Training and Better Evidence for Clinical Care projects by researching opportunities for expansion, landscaping new digital tools, reviewing program applications, and aiding in data analysis.

Safia recently graduated from Harvard College, where she studied Psychology as well as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. During her undergraduate career, she demonstrated her passion for improving equity and access to resources by working at Y2Y Harvard Square, a youth homeless shelter, and becoming one of the first Diversity and Inclusivity Chairs of The Harvard Crimson.

In the future, Safia hopes to pursue a Masters of Business Administration or a Masters of Public Health in order to help her continue improving the global healthcare field.

 

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