Executive DirectorThe Beckon Foundation
Rebecca G. Kinney is a primary care physician and the Executive Director of The Beckon Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving health equity. Dr. Kinney’s work has focused on optimizing global vaccine supply chains, integrating HIV and sexual and reproductive health for young women, and supporting innovative models of care delivery for last-mile communities in the global South. She endeavors to be a risk-tolerant funder of health systems and to change the paradigms for health financing to support a rights-based approach to health. Reflecting an experiential and experimental design, Dr. Kinney’s current investments span geographies, partners, leadership models, size and scale as an intentional strategy to better understand what works and why. She leverages her medical background whenever possible to bring context and credibility to her work and to serve as a bridge between patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that finance health.