Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a renowned surgeon, author, and public health leader. He was Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID from January 2022 to January 2025. He was previously a practicing general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He co-founded and chaired Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. From 2018-2020, he was CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase healthcare venture.

Dr. Gawande is also a longtime writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times best-selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and_ Being Mortal_. He was executive producer for the Emmy-nominated documentary film adaptation of Being Mortal (2016) and for the Oscar-nominated documentary film, To Kill A Tiger (2024).