Vanessa Kerry

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.

Articles by Vanessa Kerry
A medical worker in goggles and gloves holds up a vaccine dose, as others look on.
A medical worker in goggles and gloves holds up a vaccine dose, as others look on.

Health Is a Cornerstone of Global Security

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Vanessa Kerry
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)
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)

Foreign Aid Makes America Safer

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Vin Gupta, Vanessa Kerry
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