NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) is committed to supporting and promoting health care innovation in all forms – from promising technologies that improve outcomes to promising programs and initiatives that promote better health. With its annual Innovators in Health Awards, NEHI recognizes pioneers whose efforts reflect NEHI’s own spirit of innovation and collaboration and whose work advances NEHI’s mission to improve the quality of health care for patients and their families.
NEHI’s upcoming Innovators in Health Awards ceremony will take place on February 7, 2023, at MassBioHub in Cambridge, MA. Register here.
Editor in Chief, JAMA and JAMA Network
Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
President, The Commonwealth Fund
Director, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University
Chief Executive Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Henri A. Termeer Memorial Award
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Yerby Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
CEO, NeuroFlow
Inaugural NEHI Member Innovation Award
Senior Vice President, Head of Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BioNTech
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer BioNTech
Associate Dean, Health Equity, University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cityblock Health
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Cityblock Health
Co-Founder and Board Member, Cityblock Health
Managing Director, Life Sciences, JLL
Chief Executive Officer of Health Care Services, LSU Health
Chief Executive Officer, Alnylam
President and Chief Executive Officer, DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement and Catalyst Institute
Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School
Associated Scientists, Prions@Broad, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Accepted by Bekah Salwasser, Executive Director
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
United States Senator for Utah
Director, State Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT); Director, Boston Medical Center’s OBAT
Chairman, Waxman Strategies; Former United States Representative for California
Governor of Massachusetts
Former Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Incoming President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Chief Medical Officer, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Former President and CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Host, The Diane Rehm Show
Director, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Food and Drug Administration
Former Genzyme CEO and leader in lifesciences
Acting Assistant Secretary, HHS, and health IT leader
Accepted by Gary Gottlieb, MD, President and CEO
Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Co-Founder and CEO, Health Leads
Co-Founder and CEO, Fitbit
Senior Health Policy Advisor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
President, Institute of Medicine
Governor of Massachusetts