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LEADERSHIP

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Dr. Jill Biden

Former First Lady of the United States

LEADERSHIP

Steering Committee

Nancy Brown

CEO, American Heart Association

Nancy Brown

CEO, American Heart Association

Nancy J. Brown, MD is the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of Yale School of Medicine and the C.N.H. Long professor of Internal Medicine. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School, Nancy led a translational research program focused on developing new pharmacological strategies to prevent vascular disease in patients with high blood pressure and diabetes. Her research has been recognized by the American Heart Association, the E.K. Frey-E. Werle Foundation, the American Society of Hypertension and the American Federation for Clinical Research. Dr. Brown is a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
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Victor Dzau, MD

President, National Academy of Medicine

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Victor Dzau, MD

President, National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Victor J. Dzau, MD, is the President of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In addition, he serves as Vice Chair of the National Research Council. Dr. Dzau is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr.Dzau was the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and Chairman of Medicine at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital, as well as Bloomfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. 
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Juan Camilo Arjona Ferreira, MD

Head of Research & Development & CMO, Organon

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Juan Camilo Arjona Ferreira, MD

Head of Research & Development & CMO, Organon

Juan Camilo leads the advancement of a diverse portfolio of medicines and solutions that focus on improving the health of women and all patients. In this role, he contributes his strategic and dynamic perspective, overseeing and strengthening the organization's scientific, medical and regulatory capabilities in support of its long-term mission.
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Janet Foutty, MBA

Former CEO, Deloitte; Board Director and Consultant, Technology and Women's Health Ventures; Senior Advisor, Women's Health Access Matters (WHAM)

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Janet Foutty, MBA

Former CEO, Deloitte; Board Director and Consultant, Technology and Women's Health Ventures; Senior Advisor, Women's Health Access Matters (WHAM)

Janet Foutty is a business leader, technologist, author, and frequent public speaker. She spent over three decades at Deloitte, culminating as CEO of Deloitte Consulting and later as Chair of Deloitte US, where she guided the firm through significant technology and business transformation. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal, Janet has been honored for her leadership and advocacy on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and innovation. 
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Jyoti Gupta, PhD

President & CEO of Women's Health and X-Ray, GE HealthCare

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Jyoti Gupta, PhD

President & CEO of Women's Health and X-Ray, GE HealthCare

Dr. Jyoti Gupta is the President & CEO of Women's Health & X-ray at GE HealthCare (NASDAQ: GEHC) where she is responsible for leading a $1B+ global business. Jyoti has spent her career in the MedTech sector spanning women's health, ophthalmology, drug delivery and orthopedics across start-ups, mid- and large-cap organizations. 

Shane Jacobson, MEd

CEO, American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

Shane Jacobson, MEd

CEO, American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

Shane Jacobson is the CEO of both the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Jacobson is a dynamic, visionary leader who has dedicated his career to fueling nonprofit impact and driving growth. As CEO and alongside the ACS Board of Directors, he is charged with guiding both organizations and their more than 3,000 team members and 1.3 million volunteers toward a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone.

Sabrina Martucci Johnson, MSc

President & CEO, Daré Bioscience, Inc.

Sabrina Martucci Johnson, MSc

President & CEO, Daré Bioscience, Inc.

Ms. Johnson founded Daré Bioscience Operations in 2015 and has served as President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception and following its business combination with Cerulean Pharma in July 2017, when the Company was renamed Daré Bioscience. Ms. Johnson is a life sciences executive committed to advancing improvements in women's healthcare. 
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Sara Rico, PharmD, MSc

Senior Customer Success Tech for Social Impact, Microsoft

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Sara Rico, PharmD, MSc

Senior Customer Success Tech for Social Impact, Microsoft

Sara Rico is a Senior Customer Success Manager at Microsoft, where she leads initiatives within the Tech for Social Impact division. In her role, she empowers nonprofits and global health organizations to leverage Microsoft's technology and data platforms to drive positive, community-centered outcomes. Passionate about innovation in women's health, Sara also serves as the Women's Health Global Community Lead, where she advocates for advancements in femtech and digital health. She is a frequent speaker and moderator on topics such as patient empowerment, the value of data in healthcare, and the role of technology in education and social change. Known for her collaborative approach and dedication to inclusive innovation, Sara plays a key role in mentoring startups and building strong networks that bridge technology and impact-driven missions.
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Stacey E. Rosen, MD, FAHA

Executive Director, Katz Institute for Women's Health, Northwell Health

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Stacey E. Rosen, MD, FAHA

Executive Director, Katz Institute for Women's Health, Northwell Health

Stacey E. Rosen, MD is the Executive Director for Northwell's Katz Institute for Women's Health, the Partners Council Professor of Women's Health and Professor of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Rosen is a leading expert in women's cardiovascular disease and oversees women's health services at Northwell with a focus on the elimination of healthcare disparities through comprehensive clinical programs, sex- and genderbased research, community partnerships and education. 

Randi Seigel, JD

Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Randi Seigel, JD

Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Randi Seigel provides legal and strategic counsel to health care providers, emerging health tech and services companies, women's health companies, insurers, and post-acute care providers. Randi brings substantial knowledge of complex health care regulations, including the HIPAA and state privacy laws, state licensure and scope of practice laws, telehealth, artificial intelligence, Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation and billing, fraud and abuse laws, and other regulatory and enforcement matters. Randi's deep understanding of the health care players from commercial and government payors to providers brings valuable insights to her clients to assist them as they develop and execute their strategic goals. Randi also supports her clients in structuring innovative payment arrangements, assessing the risks and regulatory impacts of complex transactions, and responding to government audits. 
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Deena Shakir, MA

Partner, Lux Capital

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Deena Shakir, MA

Partner, Lux Capital

Deena's investments span stages and sectors, and include women's health, digital health infrastructure, health equity, foodtech, and fintech. Above all, she seeks out extraordinary, often underdog founders on a mission. Prior to Lux, Deena was a partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), led product partnerships at Google for health, search, and AI/ML, and directed social impact investments at Google.org. Deena also served as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Clinton, where she helped launch President Obama's first Global Entrepreneurship Summit. 
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Trish Stroman, MBA, MSPH

Managing Director and Senior Partner, BCG

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Trish Stroman, MBA, MSPH

Managing Director and Senior Partner, BCG

Trish Stroman is a leader in the BCG's Health Care and Public Sector practices, with a focus on global public health. Since joining BCG in 2005, she has spent much of her career building and developing BCG's social impact related activities. 
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Susan Sweeney, MPH

EVP of Obesity and Related Conditions, Amgen

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Susan Sweeney, MPH

EVP of Obesity and Related Conditions, Amgen

Susan Sweeney is the executive vice president of Obesity and Related Conditions at Amgen. She is responsible for leading a cross-functional effort focused on advancing medicines in this area. Prior to this role, Sweeney held the position of senior vice president of Global Marketing and Access and Capabilities, where she was responsible for providing commercial leadership for Amgen products at all stages of the product lifecycle and for maximizing value across the portfolio. 
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Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH

VP & Head of Social Impact & Sustainability, Merck

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Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH

VP & Head of Social Impact & Sustainability, Merck

Dr. Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH is Vice President and Head of Social Impact and Sustainability at Merck, where she leads global strategy for ESG, sustainability, impact investing, and mission-aligned corporate initiatives. Her portfolio includes sustainability reporting, the Merck Foundation, Merck for Mothers, the Mectizan Donation Program, the U.S. Patient Assistance Program, employee giving efforts, and the Merck Impact Venture Fund. Through these efforts, she works to advance systems-level approaches to improve global access to health and sustainability outcomes. 
LEADERSHIP

Senior Advisors

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Sumera Haque

Senior Advisor to the Women's Health Network; CEO & Founder, An-Nisa Foundation; Faculty Advisor, The George Washington University Global Women's Institute

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Sumera Haque

Senior Advisor to the Women's Health Network; CEO & Founder, An-Nisa Foundation; Faculty Advisor, The George Washington University Global Women's Institute

Dr. Sumera Haque is a globally recognized leader in women's and global health, with over two decades of experience as a senior healthcare executive across the U.S., Middle East, and South Asia. She is the Founder and CEO of the An-Nisa Foundation, a nonprofit organization advancing women's health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2024, she was named a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment Maker for launching a women's health and equity initiative focused on health education, early detection, and system strengthening in underserved regions of Pakistan.

Carolee Lee

Senior Advisor to the Women's Health Network; CEO & Founder, Women's Health Access Matters (WHAM)

Carolee Lee

Senior Advisor to the Women's Health Network; CEO & Founder, Women's Health Access Matters (WHAM)

Carolee Lee is an innovative trailblazer dedicated to transforming the health of women. In 2020, she founded WHAM (Women's Health Access Matters), a nonprofit organization focused on increasing awareness of the unique health challenges women face and investing in women's health research through data-driven strategies to accelerate scientific discovery and quantify economic impact.  

Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Advisor to the Women's Health Network; Norma W. Spungen and Joan L. Bildner Emerita Professor in Women's Health Research; Emerita Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Founding Director, Women's Health Research, Yale

Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Advisor to the Women's Health Network; Norma W. Spungen and Joan L. Bildner Emerita Professor in Women's Health Research; Emerita Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Founding Director, Women's Health Research, Yale

Dr. Mazure is a clinician, researcher, and educator with national health research policy experience. She has served in senior leadership roles across these areas of expertise at the Yale School of Medicine and as Chair of the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research led by Dr. Jill Biden. As Chair of the White House Initiative, Dr. Mazure worked with Dr. Biden to fundamentally change how we approach and fund women's health research. Dr. Mazure's commitment is to advance research on the health of women and the influence of sex as a biological variable; translate empirical findings into practical and effective interventions; and build public and private sector collaborations to achieve these goals. In 1998, she created Yale University's interdisciplinary research center – Women's Health Research at Yale. Under her leadership, the center was recognized as a national model for launching research across topics ranging from cardiovascular disease to cancer, translating findings, sharing health information with the public and policymakers, and advancing careers of junior faculty through mentored training in interdisciplinary team science in women's health. The center's Pilot Project Program produced data for immediate implementation as well as the necessary feasibility data to obtain external grants worth twenty times the center's financial investment. As director, Dr. Mazure also built an endowment for the center to grow in perpetuity. 

Staff

Ayodola Anise

Senior Director, Operations, Milken Institute Health

Ayodola Anise

Senior Director, Operations, Milken Institute Health

Ayodola Anise is the senior director of operations for MI Health, supporting FasterCures, Public Health, Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She brings over two decades of experience in advising on and implementing strategy, leading operations, developing staff, and collaborating for organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. Anise brings programmatic expertise on community engagement, health and health care quality and equity, patient-centered comparative effectiveness research (CER), and value and health payments. Most recently, Anise served as the deputy director for the National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium for a Learning Health System, translating the mission into strategic approaches across health equity, evidence generation, digital health, and payment systems. Previously, as a senior program officer for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Anise managed a $78 million patient-centered CER portfolio to improve healthcare systems and equity and led initiatives to foster collaboration among researchers and partners. Before joining PCORI, Anise worked at the Brookings Institution, managing a range of initiatives related to healthcare quality and equity, including efforts with states and hospitals to standardize the collection of race/ethnicity/language data to reduce disparities. Prior to Brookings, Anise worked as a senior associate for the Lewin Group, a health care research and consulting firm, and a project coordinator for a study on women's health at Georgetown University. Anise earned a bachelor's in English writing with minors in chemistry and biology from the University of Pittsburgh and a master of health science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Ashley Campany

Associate Director, Milken Institute Finance

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Ashley Campany

Associate Director, Milken Institute Finance

Ashley Campany is an associate director on the Innovative Finance team at the Milken Institute. She is responsible for research, development, execution, and follow-up for the Institute's Financial Innovations Labs. Campany has experience in marketing, fundraising, business development, and investor relations, working within financial institutions and startup ecosystems.
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Brian Carandang

Director, Business Development, Milken Institute

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Brian Carandang

Director, Business Development, Milken Institute

Brian Patrick Carandang is a director on the Business and Program Development team at the Milken Institute. He oversees fundraising strategies and partnership engagement across Milken Institute Health, which encompasses FasterCures, Public Health, Future of Aging, and Feeding Change, as well as ongoing health convenings hosted by the Institute across platform events. He fosters strategic partnerships with top supporters across the health and health care ecosystem, focusing on initiatives and scaling the Institute's health programs with key stakeholders ranging from industry, philanthropy, nonprofits, and academia.
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Abigail Humphreys

Senior Associate, Milken Institute Health

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Abigail Humphreys

Senior Associate, Milken Institute Health

Abigail Humphreys, PhD, is a senior associate of the Milken Institute's Research team where she applies her expertise to projects associated with regional economic opportunity and well-being. Prior to joining the Milken Institute, she was a part of the Colorado Fertility Project and affiliated with the Colorado University Population Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. There, she conducted research on public health and contraceptive access. Her work has been published in JAMA Open Network as well as Contraception Journal and presented at the annual Population Association of America conference. Humphreys received her PhD in health economics from the University of Colorado Denver in 2024 and holds a BA in economics from Binghamton University.
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Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health

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Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health

Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients' lives. Most recently, Krofah was the director of public policy at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she led engagement with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and relevant executive branch agencies on broad healthcare policy issues. Prior to GSK, Krofah was a deputy director of HHS' Office of Health Reform. She also served as program director at the National Governors Association (NGA) healthcare division and worked in consulting at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Krofah received a BA from Duke University and a master's in public policy from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Caitlin MacLean

Managing Director, Milken Institute Finance

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Caitlin MacLean

Managing Director, Milken Institute Finance

Caitlin MacLean is a managing director on the innovative finance team at the Milken Institute. She oversees the research, development, execution, and follow-up of our Financial Innovations Labs, which promote financial solutions to overcome economic and social challenges. During MacLean's tenure at the Institute, the labs have resulted in concrete outcomes, including the creation of new investment funds to support biomedical research and the implementation of government policies to facilitate the growth of the renewable energy sector. She is the co-author of many lab reports and related journal articles. Prior to joining the Institute, MacLean worked in the for-profit sector developing marketing campaigns and communication strategies for Fortune 500 companies. She also worked in the nonprofit sector managing fundraising and program administration for arts development organizations. MacLean is a graduate of the New School University and has an MBA in finance from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jenica Patterson

Senior Director, Milken Institute Health

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Michelle Stevenson

Executive Director, Communications, Milken Institute

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Michelle Stevenson

Executive Director, Communications, Milken Institute

Michelle Stevenson is an accomplished global marketing leader, bringing more than 25 years of experience to her role as executive director, marketing and communications at the Milken Institute, where she oversees earned media, social media, the website, brand and design, publishing, thought leadership, and all marketing efforts. With a cultural marketing mindset, Stevenson recently oversaw the rebuild of milkeninstitute.org, the launch of the Institute's first home-grown ad campaign, an expansion of media coverage into international markets. Stevenson is a leading global voice on marketing and media, participating on or leading panels from Beverly Hills to Cannes to Singapore.
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Erika Stratmann

Director, Communications, Milken Institute Health

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Erika Stratmann

Director, Communications, Milken Institute Health

Erika Stratmann is the director of communications for Health at the Milken Institute. She is a mission-driven communications and content development leader with a proven record of managing effective teams that deliver measurable results to amplify thought leadership, engage communities, advance consumer education, and impact advocacy campaigns. Prior to joining the Milken Institute, she was a senior advisor at AARP Foundation, where she led marketing and communications to help low-income older adults assess risk for social isolation, find local support services, and access public benefits. Previously, Stratmann managed the multichannel marketing and communications for AARP to reach and engage 89,000 AARP members, community partners, and policy leaders in the District of Columbia. Additionally, she led internal communications and nationwide projects for AARP's senior vice president of state and community engagement and contributed to state and federal health advocacy wins with AARP's government affairs team. Stratmann has a bachelor of social work from West Virginia University, and master's degrees in social work and public administration from the University of South Carolina.

FAQ

What is the application and review process?

All interested stakeholders must complete a brief application. 

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. 

Notice of acceptance into the Network and discussions around member contributions will be scheduled. 

What is the member evaluation criteria?

Applications for membership in the Network will be considered according to the following rubric:

  • Representation across sectors in the women’s health ecosystem
  • Skills, knowledge, and/or capacity to influence the dialogue and facilitate action  on women’s health at the national or international level
  • Preexisting and unique body of work, demonstrated commitment, sustainability, and defined leadership in women’s health R&D, innovation, and/or financing/investing
  • Capacity to expand work/investments to advance women’s health
  • Agility and speed to execute recommendations or contribute to projects from the Network
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