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Rebecca Onie, JD, is co-founder of The Health Initiative, a campaign catalyzing a nationwide effort to spur a new conversation about—and increased investments in—health. A nationally recognized leader in the intersection of drivers of health, population health, and healthcare delivery, Rebecca founded Health Leads in 1996 to enable physicians and other healthcare providers and caregivers across the country to address the fundamental drivers of patients’ health, such as healthy food and safe housing. Health Leads has armed thousands of healthcare institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, and best practices to address their patients’ resource needs and to champion a healthcare system that address all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. Rebecca is a MacArthur “Genius” awardee and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She has received the APHA Avedis Donabedian Quality Award, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation “Innovator in Health” Award, Robert Wood Johnson Young Leader Award, and Forbes’ Impact 30 Award for leading social entrepreneurs. She received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Rebecca is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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