Skip to Main Content

Innovation Exchange

The Innovation Exchange is a speaker series designed to create a welcoming and inclusive environment for students interested in global health innovation. The series provides students with insights into careers in innovation and serves as a valuable professional development opportunity.

Past Speakers

  • Daisy Rosales (MBA ’20)

    Co-founder and Executive Director of Brio, a nonprofit that advances global mental health and wellbeing through design and collaboration with local organizations

  • Anne Wylie

    Co-Founder of SalivaDirect, Inc., a nonprofit continuing to propel the use of saliva as a superior sample type for accessible, equitable surveillance of respiratory pathogens
  • Suraj Kripalani

    CEO of BonBillo, a social impact accelerator aiding startups aligned with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

  • Kayla Wooley (MPH ‘21)

    Founder and CEO of Nurse Ranger and StaffOnTap, two software as a service(SaaS) platforms that help health care companies optimize nursing home staffing.

  • Yaquta Fatehi

    An impact measurement and strategy specialist with 13+ years of analytical, consulting and global experience supporting purpose-led organizations on their growth and sustainability journeys

  • Leslie Asanga (MPH ’20)

    Founder and CEO of Pills2Me, a delivery service for pharmaceutical needs, and UrPharm, a mobile app that makes it easy to locate authentic life-saving medications in Cameroon.

  • Sunita Maheshwari and Arjun Kalyanpur

    Co-Founder and Chief Dreamer, The Telerad Group and CEO and Chief Radiologist, Teleradiology Solutions. 

  • Kaakpema Yelpaala

    Faculty Director, InnovateHealth, Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health 
  • Paul Rubin and Griffin Barstis

    Partners, Olympus Partners

  • Teresa Mbagaya

    Principal, Imaginable Futures

  • Joe Smyser

    CEO, The Public Good Projects

  • Amy Lin

    Division Director, ARPANET-H Health Innovation Network, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health