This public letter to President Biden was updated on February 23, 2021 with new signers, totaling 222.
A safe, effective and accessible COVID-19 vaccine is vital to bring an end to today’s dual economic and health crisis – so our families are safe, so people can get back to work, so we can live our lives again. No one anywhere is safe from this disease until everyone everywhere is safe.
As a cross-section of leaders from public health, development, faith-based, racial justice and labor organizations, public service, entertainment and economics, we join our voices to call on President Biden to commit to a People’s Vaccine, which provides protection as a global public good, freely and fairly available to all, prioritizing those most in need worldwide.
President Biden has tremendous power to help decide who gets access to protection from this virus, when and at what cost. With this power comes an historic opportunity for America to lead again by leveraging the strength, know-how and generosity of our people to combat this disease here at home and wherever it resides.
A People’s Vaccine is a medical necessity, an economic priority, and a moral imperative. The COVID-19 virus ruthlessly exploits existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting seniors, frontline healthcare and other essential workers, communities of color, people living in poverty, and people at more risk due to pre-existing conditions. Conflict over access to a vaccine that is distributed based on one’s wealth or nationality – rather than on need – will risk millions of lives, delay our economic recovery and exacerbate the crisis. A safe, effective, free and fairly-distributed People’s Vaccine is the fastest and most effective way to fight this pandemic, reopen our businesses and schools, protect Americans and our interests, and save lives here in the US and around the world. At a time when millions of Americans and people around the world face the dual-ills of health and economic insecurity, with communities of color facing disproportionate burdens, and where too many households stand only one health crisis away from poverty, it has never been more important to deliver a vaccine that can serve to protect working people.
Toward this end, the technology and know-how to make a COVID-19 vaccine should be shared with the world. Patents should be licensed, data published and technical assistance provided to teach appropriate vaccine production, so that qualified manufacturers everywhere can help expand the world’s supply and prevent the type of artificial scarcity which will cost lives and livelihoods at home and abroad.
US taxpayers have already committed more than $10 billion in public money towards a COVID 19 vaccine. A vaccine paid for by the people should work for the people and remain of the people.
We call on President Biden to:
- Empower scientists to independently determine – without fear or favor – if each vaccine is safe and effective for approval. Neither politics nor profits have a place in the vaccine approval process.
- Ensure full transparency and accountability over US funding for the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
- Guarantee all vaccines are sold at affordable prices, as close to cost as possible, to ensure that the US and other governments can provide protection to people for free.
- Ensure that companies and research institutions share vaccine technologies and know-how nationally and globally to overcome price and supply barriers, especially for those vaccines developed with taxpayer money.
- Prevent monopoly control of production in order to mobilize large-scale and decentralized manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines to adequately supply safe and effective vaccines for people here and around the world.
- Work collaboratively with world leaders and health authorities worldwide to deliver and implement a fair and equitable global distribution plan for the vaccine and all COVID-19 products and technologies.
- Prioritize protection for those people most in need and most at risk, including frontline healthcare and social-care workers, essential workers, older people, people with pre-existing conditions at higher risk, and high-transmission communities here and around the world.
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Signed,
Frederick Abbott – Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor, Florida State University College of Law; Co-Chair of the Global Health Law Committee of the International Law Association
Joyce Ajlouny – General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee
Bisrat Aklilu, PhD – Senior Development Advisor, Oxfam Board of Directors
Philip Alston – John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Co-Chair, NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Nancy Altman – President, Social Security Works
Sharif Aly – CEO, Islamic Relief USA
Joe Amon, PhD MSPH – Director of Global Health and Clinical Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
José Andrés – Founder, World Central Kitchen; Chef/Owner, ThinkFoodGroup
Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, MD, PhD – Director, Ethics Center, Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Stuart Appelbaum – President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU/UFCW)
Hale Appleman – Actor
Shahzeen Attari, PhD – Associate Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington
Ricardo A. Ayala – Ethicist and Visiting Scholar, Division of Medical Ethics at New York University; Researcher in Business Ethics, University of Amsterdam
Luke Baines – Actor
Brook Baker – Professor, Northeastern University School of Law; Senior Policy Analyst, Health Global Access Project
Radhika Balakrishnan, PhD – Faculty Director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; President, International Association for Feminist Economics
Robert Bank – President and CEO, American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
Sara Barellies – Singer; Actress
Ady Barkan – Co-founder, Be a Hero PAC; Organizer, Center for Popular Democracy
Donna Barry, MSN, MPH – Director, Global Nursing; Assistant Professor, Regis College
Michele Barry, MD, FACP, FASTMH – Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Stanford University; Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health; Senior Associate Dean for Global Health, Stanford University*
Monica L. Baskin, PhD – President, Society of Behavioral Medicine Rania Batrice – Interim Executive Director, March for Science Sister Ruth Battaglia – Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes
Alicia Bazzano, MD, PhD, MPH – Chief Health Officer, Special Olympics, Inc.
Carol Bellamy – Former Executive Director, UNICEF (1995-2005)
Avril Benoît – Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières USA
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, PhD – Chairperson, Buddhist Global Relief
George Biddle – Chairman, World Connect
Paul Bland – Executive Director, Public Justice
Sister Pegge Boehm – Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Aberdeen, South Dakota
Ali Bokhari, DO, MPH – President, American Medical Student Association
Rabbi Sharon Brous – Senior and Founding Rabbi, IKAR
Rev. Jennifer Butler – Founding Executive Director, Faith in Public Life; Author, Who Stole My Bible?
Kate Campana – Founder and CEO, The Access Challenge
Bonnie Campbell – Former Attorney General of Iowa
Melanie Campbell – President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable
Sister Simone Campbell, SSS – Executive Director, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
Sharon Carpenter – TV Personality and Host Marco Castillo – Co-Director, Global Exchange Oscar Chacón – Executive Director, Alianza Americas
Martin Chalfie – University Professor, Columbia University (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
R. Alta Charo, JD – Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School
Lincoln Chen, MD, MPH – President Emeritus, China Medical Board Foundation
Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH – Executive Director, American Medical Women’s Association
Rev. Eugene Cho – President and CEO, Bread for the World
Noam Chomsky, PhD – Institute Professor (Emeritus), MIT; Laureate Professor, University of Arizona
Chelsea Clinton, DPhil, MPH – Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation; Board Member, Clinton Health Access Initiative; Board member, Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Jonathan Cohen – Director, Public Health Program at Open Society Foundations
Ronald Coleman – President, New Orleans Chapter of the NAACP
Chuck Collins – Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, Institute for Policy Studies
Misha Collins – Actor
Christopher Cox, M.Div. – Associate Director, Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investment
Ophelia Dahl – Co-founder and Chair, Board at Partners in Health
Patricia Davidson, PhD – Dean and Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; Counsel General, International Council on Women’s Health Issues; Secretariat, World Health Organizations Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Midwifery
Sheila Davis, DNP – CEO, Partners in Health
Marie Dennis – Senior Advisor, Pax Christi International
Abigail Disney – Documentary Film Producer, Philanthropist, and Social Activist
Yacine Djibo – Founder and Executive Director, Speak Up Africa
John C. Dorhauer – General Minister and President, United Church of Christ
David J. Doukas, MD – James A. Knight Chair, Humanities and Ethics in Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values, Tulane University School of Medicine
Jason T. Eberl, PhD – Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy and Director, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University
Gloria Estefan – Musician
Malu Fairley-Collins, Rev, BCC, ACPE Certified Educator – Vice President, Alliance of Baptists
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD – Co-founder and Chief Strategist, Partners in Health; Professor, Kolokotrones University; Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Kathleen Foley, MD – Member Emeritus, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York , NY
Phyllis Freeman, JD – Editor Emerita, Journal of Public Health Policy
Latanya Mapp Frett – President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
Sakiko Fukada-Parr – Professor of International Affairs, The New School; Director, Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs
Martha Gaines, JD, LLM – Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School; Founder, Center for Patient Partnerships
Jason George – Actor
Daniel Gillies – Actor
George Goehl – Director, People’s Action
Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Co-Executive Director, National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
Gregg Gonsalves, PhD – Assistant Professor in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Co-director, Global Health Justice Partnership and the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency
Bob Goodfellow – Interim Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE – Professor of Medicine and Philosophy and Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Genevieve Gorder – Designer, Television Personality, Activist
Lawrence Gostin, JD – Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University; Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law; Director, WHO Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights
Rebecca L. Gould – Executive Director, Nebraska Appleseed
Sharon Groves, PhD – Vice President, Partner Engagement at Auburn Seminary
Susan Gunn – Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Rhiana Gunn-Wright – Director of Climate Policy, Roosevelt Institute
Arjun Gupta – Actor
Jeb Gutelius – Executive Director, The Ally Coalition
Rohini Haar, MD, MPH – Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health; Research Fellow, Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law; Medical Advisor, Physicians for Human Rights
Maya Haile – Chef, Marcus Samuelsson Group
Darrick Hamilton – Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and University Professor, The New School
Rosa Handelman – TV Writer and Producer, Little Fires Everywhere
Chelsea Handler – Comedian, Actress, Writer, TV Host, Producer and Activist
Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, FAAP – Director, Pediatric Public Health Initiative; C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health, Division of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Lisa Haugaard – Co-director, Latin America Working Group
Mary Annaise Heglar – Climate Justice Writer; Co-creator and Co-host, Hot Take podcast and newsletter
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA – Medical Director, Physicians for Human Rights; Professor of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of Michigan
Rev. Katharine Henderson, PhD – President, Auburn Seminary
Rev. Dr. Susan Henry-Crowe – General Secretary and General Board of Church and Society, The United Methodist Church
Claire Holt – Actor
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD – Director, Center for Vaccine Development, Texas Children’s Hospital; Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Chaz Howard, Rev. Dr. – University Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity and Community, University of Pennsylvania
Margaret Huang – President and CEO, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Action Fund
Eddie Iny – Director, Corporate Accountability Program at United for Respect
Frederick Isasi – Executive Director, Families USA
Klaus H. Jacob, PhD – Geophysicist, The Earth Institute of Columbia University
Rabbi Jill Jacobs – Executive Director, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Saru Jayaraman – President, One Fair Wage; Co-founder, Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United; Director, Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley
Sherine Jayawickrama – INGO Consultant and Former Executive Director, NGO Leaders Forum; Oxfam Board of Directors
Martha Jeffries – Film and Television Director, Producer, and Writer; Founding Member, Ocean Collectiv
Maz Jobrani – Comedian and Actor
Robert Johnson – President, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET); Senior Fellow, the Roosevelt Institute
Margarida Jorge – Campaign Director, Lower Drug Prices Now
Amy Kapczynski, JD – Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Michael Katz, MD – Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics, emeritus, Columbia University, President of Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Kerry Kennedy – President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc – Co-founder and CEO, Seed Global Health; Director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Faculty Member, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Navina Khanna – Executive Director, HEAL Food Alliance
Mary Jo Kilroy – Former Representative for Ohio’s 15th District
Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH – Second Century Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Kendall Kliewer – Treasury Director, Avera Health
Viviana Krsticevic, LLM – Executive Director, Center for Justice and International Law
Lake Street Dive – Musicians
Robert S. Lawrence, MD, MACP – Professor Emeritus, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Founding Member, Board Member Emeritus, and Past Board Chair, Physicians for Human Rights
Barbara Lawton – Former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH – Senior Research Fellow and former Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; Professor of the Practice (retired), Harvard Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sander Levin – Former Representative for Michigan’s 9th District and Former Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Professor of Practice, University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy
Maggie Lindemann – Musician
Natalia Linos, MSc, ScD – Executive Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; Member of Poor People’s Campaign COVID-19 Health Justice Advisory Committee
Michael C. Lu, MD, MS, MPH – Dean, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Sean Maguire – Actor
Tessie San Martin – CEO, Plan International USA
Jessica E. Martinez – Co-Executive Director, National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
Kate Marvel, PhD – Climate Scientist and Science Writer; Associate Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and Columbia Engineering’s Department of Applied Physics and Mathematics
Abby Maxman – President and CEO, Oxfam America
Mariana Mazzucato, PhD – Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL); Founder/Director, UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD – Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amy L. McGuire, JD, PhD – Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna – CEO, Mercy Corps
Donna McKay – Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Debra Messing – Actor
David Michaels, PhD, MPH – Epidemiologist and Professor, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
Alyssa Milano – Actor, Producer, and Political Activist
David Miliband – CEO, International Rescue Committee
Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP – Senior Medical Advisor, Physicians for Human Rights; Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Javier Muñoz – Actor
Thao Nguyen – Musician
Elena Nightingale – Member and Emerita Scholar-in-Residence, National Academy of Medicine; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Abel Nunez – Executive Director, Central American Resource Center
Michelle Nunn – President and CEO, CARE USA
José Antonio Ocampo – Professor of Professional Geophysicist, The Earth Institute of Columbia University in International and Public Affairs; Director, Economic and Political Development Concentration in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; Member, the Committee on Global Thought; Co-President, Columbia’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue; Chair, Committee for Development Policy
Raymond Offenheiser – Director, Pulte Institute of Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
OK Go – Musicians
Harriet Jane Olson – General Secretary/CEO, United Methodist Women Ole Petter Ottersen, MD, PhD – President, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden Laura Packard – Founder, Health Care Voices
Morris Pearl – Former Managing Director, BlackRock; Chairperson, Patriotic Millionaires
Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MS – Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Research, MacLean Center of Clinical Medical Ethics; Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research; Executive Medical Director, Community Health Innovation, The University of Chicago
Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP – Physician-Fellow, Yale National Clinician Scholars Program
Jonathan Reckford – CEO, Habitat for Humanity
John Regan – Veteran’s Legal Clinic, Legal Services Center, Harvard Law School,
Oxfam Board of Directors
Robert Reich – Chancellor’s Professor, University of California at Berkeley; Former
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Arthur Reingold, MD – Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology, School of Public, UC Berkeley
Henry S. Richardson, PhD – Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University; Senior Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Les Roberts, PhD – Professor, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Sir Richard J. Roberts – Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs; Co-recipient 1993 Nobel Prize in Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Emily Robinson – Actor
Dani Rodrik, PhD – Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; President-Elect, International Economics Association; Co-director, Economics for Inclusive Prosperity
Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS – Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
Kenneth Roth – Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner – Co-founder and Executive Director/CEO, Moms Rising
Leonard Rubenstein, JD, LLM – Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mark Ruffalo – Actor
John Ruggie, PhD – Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; former UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights
Mohammed Zaher Sahloul, MD – Co-founder and President, MedGlobal; Associate Professor, University of Illinois in Chicago, Founder, Syria Faith Initiative
Marcus Samuelsson – Chef, Marcus Samuelsson Group
Angela Sanbrano – Co-Executive Director, National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Claudine Schneider – Former Representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd District
Bill Schultz, JD – Former General Counsel, Department of Health and Human Services; Former Deputy Commissioner, FDA; Board of Trustees, Partners in Health; Leadership Council, Yale School of Public Health; Board Co-chair, National Health Law Project; Board Member, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Jamey Shachoy – Chief Tax Officer, Accenture; Oxfam Board of Directors
Donna Shelley, MD, MPH – Professor, Public Health Policy and Management and Global Health, Vice Chair of Research, Department Public Health Policy and Management, NYU School of Global Public Health
Sekou Siby, DBA – Executive Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) United
Gayle Smith – President and CEO, the ONE Campaign
Rev. Jason Smith – Congregational Engagement Specialist, Alliance of Baptists
Anthony D. So, MD, MPA – Professor of the Practice and Director, Innovation + Design Enabling Access (IDEA) Initiative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health*
Ben Sollee – Musician; Activist
Paul B. Spiegel MD, MPH – Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health; Professor of Practice, Department of International Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Rev. Sharon Stanley-Rea, DMin – Director of Refugee & Immigration Ministries (RIM) for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Joseph Stiglitz, PhD – Nobel Laureate in Economics; University Professor, Columbia University; President, Columbia’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue; Chief Economist and Senior Fellow, the Roosevelt Institute
Chadwick Stokes – Musician; Activist
Eric Stover – Faculty Director, Human Rights Center; Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Cheryl Strayed – Award-winning author of 4 books, including #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild; Podcast host
Rev. Cathy Tamsberg – Secretary of the Alliance of Baptists Rev. Adam Russell Taylor – Executive Director, Sojourners Alice Carbone Tench – Chef; Author
Benmont Tench – Musician
Bishop Efraim Tendero – Secretary General and CEO, World Evangelical Alliance
Geoff Thale – President, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Rev. Liz Theoharis – Co-chair, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival; Director, the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary
Liz Tigelaar – TV Writer, Producer, and Author – Little Fires Everywhere
Aisha Tyler – Actor, Comedian, Director, and Talk show host
Gabrielle Union – Actor
Kristin Urquiza, MPA – Co-founder and Chief Activist, Marked by COVID
Baldemar Velasquez – Founder and President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Sten Vermund, MD, PhD – Pediatrician and Infectious Disease Epidemiologist; Dean and Professor, Yale School of Public Health
Melanne Verveer – Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and
Security; Former U.S. Ambassador, Global Women’s Issues
Anjelika Washington – Actor
Randi Weingarten – President, American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Michael Weinstein – President, AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Robert Weissman – President, Public Citizen
Amy Westervelt – Environmental Print and Radio Journalist; Founder, Critical
Frequency Podcast Network; Host of the popular podcast “Drilled”
Forest Whitaker – Artist; Social Activist; Founder/CEO, Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative
Bradley Whitford – Actor
Katharine Wilkinson, DPhil – Climate Author, Strategist, Teacher; Principal Writer and Editor-in-Chief, Project Drawdown
James Winkler – President, National Council of Churches (NCC)
Lynn Woolsey – Former Representative for California’s 6th District
Sam Worthington – CEO, InterAction
Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH – Director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health; Advisory Council, Physicians for Human Rights*
Alicia Yamin, JD, MPH – Senior Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School (PFC); Senior Scholar, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University (GHELI); Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Senior Advisor on Human Rights, Partners in Health
Muhammad Yunus – 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Founder, Grameen Bank
Monette Zard – Allan Rosenfield Associate Professor of Forced Migration and Health and Director of the Forced Migration and Health Program, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Jane Zelikova – Co-founder, 500 Women Scientists; Chief Climate Scientist, Carbon180; Researcher, University of Wyoming; Co-founder, Hey Girl Productions
Josh Zinner – CEO, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
Johnny Zokovitch – Executive Director, Pax Christi USA
* Affiliation for identification purposes only.