Senior Advisor, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Cheryl Scott, senior advisor in the Global Health Program, helps build capacity and expertise across Global Health teams to ensure that vaccines and other health solutions reach the people who need them most.
Scott joined the foundation in 2006 as chief operating officer. She oversaw all major operational functions and, following Warren Buffett's historic gift, led foundation-wide change initiatives to achieve large and rapid increases in organizational and grantmaking capacity and impact some of the world's biggest challenges.
Before joining the foundation, Scott served for eight years as president and CEO of Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, one of the oldest and most respected integrated health care systems in the U.S. She had also served as Group Health's executive vice president and chief operating officer. Scott is a clinical professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, where she teaches a graduate seminar on leading complex adaptive systems.
Modified: 06/29/09