Team

Rebecca Weintraub, MD

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 Faculty Director of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Weintraub is a practicing internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and serves as an Advisor for the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. 

She has led the research and development of Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of over 45 Harvard Business School case studies with Harvard Business Publishing, available online at no cost to the public and taught at over 500 schools of medicine, public health, and business. For a decade Dr. Weintraub led GHDonline.org, a network of virtual communities that connected 25,000+ health professionals from more than 185 countries and 7,000 organizations. Her research on value based health care delivery has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Global Fund, World Health Organization, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dr. Weintraub is also the Director of Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs where she works to enhance access and uptake to the latest evidence at the frontlines of care. 

Dr. Weintraub co-founded Jumpstart, the national AmeriCorps program reaching more than 50,000 preschoolers and their communities. She served as a member of the New England Journal of Medicine's Perspectives Advisory Board and as a board member of several nongovernmental organizations. As a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard Business School she has collaborated with Professor Michael Porter to develop new strategies to disseminate valued based health care delivery. In 2014, the World Economic Forum honored Dr. Weintraub as a Young Global Leader. Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Julie Rosenberg, MPH

Deputy Director, Global Health Delivery Project
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 also shared some of those lessons through her support of the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer training program and online communities of practice. She helps lead the Better Evidence work, now done in collaboration with Ariadne Labs, to improve access and uptake of the premier, evidence-based clinical resource for practitioners and has contributed to building analytical frameworks, writing scholarly articles, and executing several research projects commissioned by global health institutes and the World Health Organization. She has helped lead the development of GHD over time to ensure continued value for those it serves. 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, with pre-med coursework and a Spanish language certificate, from Harvard College.

Sara Pellegrom, MPH

Senior Project Manager, Better Evidence
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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.

Safia Abou-Zamzam

Research Assistant II, Better Evidence
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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.

 

GHD Contributors

GHD has many advisors, contributors, and previous GHDonline moderators who bring subject matter expertise, guidance, and structure to our work.