Veronica Adamson

Veronica is a Harvard T.H. Chan Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student and has dedicated her career to improving global maternal and child health outcomes through national private-for-public sector technology innovation.  Veronica pursued a MSc in management at HEC Paris and subsequently focused on maternal and infant health technology across strategy consulting and business leadership – most recently as the General Manager of the (U.S.) nation’s leading provider of WIC, EI, Eligibility, Immunization and Pop Health digital platforms/services.  In the first six months of her role, Veronica initiated a state-wide partnership with California’s DHCS to develop a ground-breaking population health analytics platform focused initially on child-bearing women and children.  Veronica previously led Philips Healthcare’s global Obstetrics Monitoring business, where she won the Frost & Sullivan “Best Product – Excellence in Best Practice Award” for providing a critical, timely innovation to enable pregnant women to receive care at-home during Covid-19.  Veronica is a frequent advisor on maternal health tech innovation, collaborating on initiatives with the White House (Health, Hunger and Nutrition, CX initiative, Office of Women’s Health), World Bank, NIH and advocacy groups (MATCH coalition).

Veronica holds a BA from Tufts University where she graduated magna cum laude, received the Dean’s Grant for international conflict negotiations, and was president of the International Relations honor society Sigma Iota Rho (2003).  After living abroad for twenty-years with her partner, Veronica now lives in Milton, MA with her children Gabby (3), Teddy (5) and rescue dog (Tara).  She has recently taken up vegetable gardening with her children and plans to restart marathon training.  Her interests during the DrPH Program are filling gaps in her U.S. public health knowledge (policy, stakeholders, unmet needs, global best-practices etc.), learning more about resilient leadership, and researching effective technologies for distributed training and recruitment of maternal-health non-clinical care providers.  Following the completion of the DrPH Program, Veronica plans to either (a) pursue a public sector leadership position where she can direct and develop policies and programs that improve the health of underserved U.S. child-bearing individuals and children, or (b) launch an innovative startup to fill the gap in non-clinical care providers for child-bearing women/infants.