About Dr. Kerry

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Dr. Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health. 

Seed Global Health (Seed) is challenging the status quo. We are united in the belief that quality, dignified healthcare can and should be accessible for all. We have seen firsthand how dedication, discipline, and long-term investments in the health workforce can improve health outcomes in any setting.

Working with governments across sub-Saharan Africa, Seed seeks to catalyze and inspire lasting change in the public health systems of our partner countries. We help to train nurses, midwives, and physicians (over 50,000 to date) in service to over 106 million people and who build complete health workforce teams that can provide high-quality care and save lives no matter the challenge be it climate change, pandemics or basic needs.

This past year, Seed supported countries to reduce maternal mortality by 20% at the sites Seed works, reduce neonatal mortality by 50% at more than 90% of sites, and care for more that 400,000 patients. 

Seed currently works in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and Sierra Leone and in partnership with the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the Africa CDC, the COP Presidencies and many others.

In September 2026, Dr. Kerry was appointed the Director General 's Special Envoy for Health Resilience for the World Health Organization. 

Building on her previous role as Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, this new position expands the remit to champion health systems that can meet everyday health needs while preventing crises from becoming catastrophes. 

For Dr. Kerry, the appointment is an important evolution of the more than a decade of work alongside governments and partners to strengthen health systems by investing in the people who save lives. It affirms the country-led approach that Seed Global Health and partners have championed and helps to solidify the role resilient health systems play in our world.  

That vision is simple: resilient health systems are built through sustained investment in health workers, national institutions, and country-led priorities, with partners aligned behind national plans. 

Dr. Kerry believes this approach has never been more important.  

Dr. Kerry is the Director of Global Health and Climate Policy in the Department of Environmental Health.  Joining the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Fall of 2024, she teaches on Health System Resilience, Climate,  Health, and Public Policy.  

Keynotes, plenaries, moderated conversations and university lectures. In outreach, please include date, audience and format.

Board and executive briefings on global health, health risk, health and economic return on investment, resilience and workforce investment.

Support to strengthen global engagement,  augment strategies, grow impact of health investment, and build health resilience