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.
Stay tuned for more information about NEHI’s 2021 Innovators in Health Awards happening in October. Visit https://www.innovatorsinhealthawards.net/ for more information, sponsorship opportunities, past honorees and more!
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