Bill Rodriguez

Biography

Bill Rodriguez, MD, is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in infectious disease medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident. As a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, he established a research programme on diagnostics and operational research in global health. He left Harvard in 2003 to become the Chief Medical Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation, where he helped broker pricing agreements between African and Asian governments, and the major suppliers of HIV drugs and diagnostic tests. He was the founding CEO of Daktari Diagnostics, a for-profit social venture focused on diagnosis of the diseases of poverty, the Chief Medical Officer for FIND in Geneva, Switzerland, and is currently a Managing Director for the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.

Research Interest

Drug Development, the Biotechnology, Business management