Michele Barry is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University, where she directs the Center for Innovation in Global Health and serves as Senior Associate Dean for Global Health.
A leading advocate for women’s leadership in medicine and global health, she founded the Gates-funded international nonprofit WomenLift Health. She’s an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
She has recently written on the exclusion of women climate scientists from COP meetings and leadership roles, among many other topics