Cassia van der Hoof Holstein

Biography

Cassia van der Hoof Holstein is Director, Global Health Equity at the Emerson Collective. She serves on the boards of Partners In Health and Plus 1, and on the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board at the University of Global Health Equity, in Rwanda. She is a Senior Advisor to the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University’s School of Medicine.

Previously, Cassia served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Paul Farmer--who loved the annual trip to Oxford for the Skoll World Forum, and the beloved community he got to see there. She was Associate Director of the Global Health Delivery Partnership at Harvard Medical School, Chief Partnership Integration Officer at Partners In Health, and founding Director of Rural Health at the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI). Cassia studied Literature at Harvard College, and got her start in global health in Senate Kennedy's Poverty Issues Office. She is a San Franciscan, birth doula, mother of three, and adherent of the Oxford comma.