Dr Bill Rodriguez
Dr Bill Rodriguez is Chief Executive Officer of FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, where he had an earlier tenure as Chief Medical Officer between 2015 and 2017. He was previously Managing Director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage, high-impact social enterprises. A physician and entrepreneur, he has extensive experience across both private and public sectors, founding his own diagnostics company, Daktari Diagnostics. As a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, he established a research programme on diagnostics and operational research in global health. Bill is a highly respected figure in the global health community, serving as advisor to the World Health Organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, national governments on global HIV, tuberculosis, Ebola and COVID-19, as well as numerous established and start-up for-profit and not-for-profit social enterprises focused on global health. Bill is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine, and trained in infectious disease medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident.
