Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Rebecca Weintraub, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is 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 is the Director of Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs.

Dr. Weintraub's research focus includes equitable delivery strategies and insights from positive exemplars in health delivery. She leads the development of 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 other graduate programs. Rebecca co-leads the Global Health Delivery Intensive program, jointly offered by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.

At Ariadne Labs, Rebecca leads Better Evidence, to equip frontline providers with vital evidence amid decision-making. Better Evidence serves 100,000+ 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 portfolio at Ariadne Labs. She advises Ministries of Health, the Health and Human Service’s National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and the Association of Immunization managers.

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 co-founded Jumpstart, a national service program reaching 50,000+ preschoolers and their communities. Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.