Director, Social Innovation HubJhpiego
Dr. Joanne Peter is Director of Jhpiego’s Innovation Hub. She leads a multidisciplinary team that combines frontier technology, human-centered design, market-based solutions, and systems thinking to drive new models of decentralized, data-driven and person-centered care across Jhpiego’s work in 40 countries. Joanne also leads Jhpiego’s Worldwide Innovation Support Hub (WISH), an accelerator program that supports innovators to scale their solutions within complex health systems. Joanne specializes in the use of health technology in low-resource settings. Prior to Jhpiego, she helped establish Johnson & Johnson’s Center for Health Worker Innovation, and worked at Google.org, the UN Foundation and DGMT on a range of health, technology, and innovation programs. Joanne trained in Medicine and International Development at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University respectively. She serves on the Board of Living Goods and the advisory board of Jacaranda Health.
Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, North America