How Social Entrepreneurs Are Seizing New Financing Opportunities To Further Change 1. Grants And Global Health
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Session Description
While rooted in an account of the uptake of particular financing instruments, these case studies go far further to look holistically at the changes adopting new approaches to financing entail.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:15, Thursday, March 30, 2006
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Founder & CEO, Institute for OneWorld Health
Victoria Hale, PhD, is a pharmaceutical scientist/executive and global health social entrepreneur, and is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sacredmedicines.earth which is developing Ayahuasca Tea for psychiatric disorders. She was founder & CEO of two successful nonprofit pharmaceutical companies, OneWorld Health (2000; tropical infectious diseases) and Medicines360 (2009; contraception). OneWorld Health was the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the US. She is a MacArthur Fellow, was inducted into the US National Academy of Medicine, has been recognized as an outstanding global social entrepreneur by Skoll, Ashoka and Schwab Foundations. Her drug development experience was obtained at the FDA and Genentech, Inc. She earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Univ California San Francisco (UCSF) where she is presently Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering and Experimental Sciences. Dr Hale is a member of the MAPS Board of Directors. Victoria lives in San Francisco, CA. https://www.sacredmedicines.earth/
