Vanessa Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening health systems. In June 2023, Kerry was appointed as the World Health Organization’s special envoy for climate change and health. Kerry is a pulmonary and critical care-trained physician and the director of global and climate health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also serves as the director of global public policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health.
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A midwife in a white uniform with an orange belt sits outdoors, leaning forward to examine a newborn baby held by a woman in a yellow shirt and colorful patterned skirt. They are seated in a sunlit, dirt clearing surrounded by trees and a traditional thatched-roof building in the background.
Sudanese workers unload an aid shipment organized by the United States Agency for International Development and the World Food Programme in Port Sudan on May 5, 2016. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images)
