Director, Global Health EquityEmerson Collective
Dr. Rebecca Hope is the Director of Emerson Collective's global health portfolio. She is a pediatrician, designer, and public health specialist with 23 years of experience in global health across 19 countries. In her former roles as co-Founder and CEO of YLabs, and at Harvard School of Public Health and IDEO.org, she designed, evaluated, and scaled digital products and services reaching over 1.5 million people. She was recently named a Top 50 in Digital Health 2024 by Rock Health for her work on Asking for a Friend, an app providing inclusive and safe reproductive health access for American teens. She’s trained and funded multiple community-based organizations, leading health innovation accelerators in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Tanzania. She has a degree in Medicine, an MSc in Paediatrics and Child Health, a BSc (Hons) in International Health from University College London and the University of Leeds and an MPH from Harvard.