Pooja Wagh

Director, Health Community, SOLVE, MIT

Director, Health Community

SOLVE, MIT

USA

Pooja Wagh is the Director of Solve’s Health pillar. She develops and nurtures relationships with Solve’s health-focused members, advisors, and Solvers, and works with them to drive forward promising, innovative solutions to intractable challenges in the health and wellness space. She is also responsible for defining Solve’s strategic direction for the Health pillar and measuring the impact of Solve’s partnerships on the ability of Solvers to affect change.

Prior to joining Solve, Pooja was a Program Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action, where she managed a portfolio of rigorous research projects aiming to improve the access and quality of financial services in underserved areas around the world. She previously worked as a consultant at IBM Global Business Services, where she provided technology consulting services to pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods companies. Pooja holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in electrical engineering from MIT.

Sessions

CrowdSolving for Social Impact

16:45  -  17:05 
Classic Room