Rebecca Weintraub, MD is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Rebecca is the faculty director of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University and leads Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs. Dr. Weintraub is a practicing internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Over the past decade, Rebecca has led the research regarding implementation bottlenecks and positive exemplars in health delivery. In 2008, she launched the Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of 45+ case studies with Harvard Business Publishing. The cases are taught at 1000+ schools of medicine, public health, and business. Rebecca co-leads the Global Health Delivery Intensive program, a program jointly offered by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. The program has trained practitioners, researchers, managers, and implementers from over 30 countries in management skills critical to improving effective and equitable health delivery.
At Ariadne Labs, Rebecca leads Better Evidence, with the aim of equipping frontline providers with vital evidence in the midst of decision making. Better Evidence serves 30,000+ front line providers in more than 150 countries and 150+ medical schools and clinical sites. In the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rebecca launched the Vaccine Delivery workstream of Ariadne Labs’ COVID-19 Response. She has established her role in the realm through various outlets, including advising the Health and Human Service’s National Vaccine Advisory Committee, serving on the CONVINCE Steering Committee, publications in Harvard Business Review and Health Affairs and media outlets including Netflix, Vox, New York Times, BBC, and NPR.
Rebecca was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Rebecca is a Health Innovator fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
