Dr. Veronica Adamson

Veronica Adamson, DrPH, is a global public health executive and entrepreneur focused on advancing maternal, infant, and women's health. She has led the development and commercialization of healthcare technologies at a global scale, with experience spanning medical devices, software, AI, and health systems. Prior to joining Wellcome Leap, she held senior leadership roles at Philips, where she headed its global obstetrics monitoring portfolio and AI & Interoperability (ACI) product organization, and at Gainwell, where she ran its Health and Human Services business. She also served as an XIR for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Making Obstetric Care Smart (MOCS) program, which aims to bring data-driven decision making to labor and delivery. In addition, she founded InnovaHer, which advises organizations working to advance women's and maternal health innovation. Earlier in her career, she developed growth strategies for Fortune 500 companies at Monitor Deloitte and co-founded Customer Echos, a digital ethnographic AI venture. Dr. Adamson earned her Doctor of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where her research focused on using system dynamics to advance public health innovations from development to scale. She has written for STAT News and Harvard Public Health Magazine and has served as a judge for the World Bank's Maternal Health Breakthrough Tech Awards.