Taking Bold Leaps to Make Health a Right

RWJF is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. We work with others to achieve health equity faster and pave the way together to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

15 members

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rwjf.org

Members

Bill Frist, M.D.

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3rd+

Chair, The Nature Conservancy Global Board

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Investing at Evidenced

Kathy Tsay

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3rd+

I'm a product partnerships professional focused on taking partner ecosystems from 0 to 1. As one of the founding members of Figma's BD & Partnerships team, I am responsible for our integration partners across the broader design, productivity and collaboration space - including players such as Atlassian, Asana, Notion and more. Prior to joining Figma, I launched the partner program for LinkedIn Talent Hub. Integration partners included industry-leading providers such as ADP, DocuSign, Microsoft and Zoom. I also led efforts to conceptualize and ultimately execute on LinkedIn Learning's Certificates partner program. An investor turned operator, I started my career in financial services as an investment banking analyst working closely with Citigroup's TMT clients. I later joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to manage their $10B+ portfolio, where I was responsible for managing their investments across private equity and venture capital. Notable investments include: Apollo, Blackstone Real Estate, Initialized Capital, and Y Combinator.

Blair Johnson

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C-Level Executive | Board Director | Growth | Strategic Advisor & Executive Coach

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Dr. Abdul Shaikh is Global Leader for Population Health for Amazon Web Services (AWS) where he leads the go-to-market strategy translating leading tech including generative AI and cloud services into meaningful clinical and community health applications for commercial, nonprofit and government organizations. He is a member of the pan-Amazon Global Health Community of Practice and is passionate about advancing value-based care. As a former NIH program officer, public health educator, and health services researcher, Abdul is committed to multi-disciplinary collaboratives driving evidence-to-practice such as NASEM, AcademyHealth, and RWJF. Abdul brings more than 20 years of experience helping providers, payors, governments and nonprofits work backwards from their goals to harness data for more equitable, efficient, and person-centered care. He has also served as an advisor for early stage startups, incubators, and accelerators. Prior to AWS, Abdul was the Population Health Leader for PwC and Guidehouse, leading strategy, design and organization transformation, and served as a Program Officer at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and ONC. In this latter role he worked on meaningful use of health IT and was recognized by the Whitehouse in 2010 for leading the first COMPETES Act innovation prize competitions. Abdul's work spans digital health and precision medicine, remote patient monitoring, machine learning (ML) prediction models, quantification of social needs (i.e., SDOH), natural language processing (NLP), electronic health records (EHR), digital quality measurement, and interoperability of diverse/multi-modal data. He has been featured in national outlets such as Becker’s Hospital Review, Wired, and the Wall Street Journal, and he is a regular speaker at industry, government and scientific meetings on AI, cloud, and digital health innovation. Abdul's professional activities include serving on commercial and nonprofit boards, the HIMSS SDOH Committee, AWS Health Equity CoP, and the National Academy of Medicine’s Digital Health Action Collaborative. Trained in public health and health services research at the University of Toronto and University of Michigan, Abdul completed his post-doc Cancer Prevention Fellowship at NCI.

Thomas Goetz

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A journalist and entrepreneur, Thomas helps people understand complicated things through stories, data and design. Thomas is co-founder of Building H, a nonprofit research/editorial project that explores how companies can better #owntheoutcome for their impact on consumer health. He was most recently the Chief of Research at GoodRx, the nation's leading resource for affordable healthcare, where he created GoodRx Research and GoodRx Health. Previously he co-founded Iodine, the Webby-award winning "Yelp for medicine" that helped people understand which medications work best for them, based on a database of real-world experience. Iodine was acquired by GoodRx (GDRX) in 2016. Thomas served there as Chief of Research and Chief Communications Officer until 2023. Previously, Thomas was executive editor at WIRED, which he led to a dozen National Magazine Awards from 2001 through 2012. He is the author of two award-winning books, and his writing has been repeatedly selected for the Best American Science Writing and Best Technology Writing anthologies. He served as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he founded Flip the Clinic, a project to transform the practitioner-patient encounter. He also served as Curator-in-Residence for the Adobe Digital Museum. His 2010 TED talk on visualizing medical data has been viewed more than half a million times.

Amol Sinha

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Nonprofit CEO and board member | Leader, Speaker, Connector | Executive Director at ACLU of New Jersey

Lucky Gunasekara

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Co-Founder, CEO at Miso