Board of Directors
Jeff Blander
Dr. Jeff Blander is the co-founder and president of the Bienmoyo
Foundation, registered in both Massachusetts and Tanzania as a
non-profit organization providing advisory services on implementing
technologies and services to strengthen systems and health care
delivery for the double burden of infectious and non-communicable
diseases. Bienmoyo supports the development of public-private
partnerships to facilitate new product development and access to
quality health services.
Jeff has research appointments at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health as well as has been a lecturer in the Division of Health Science and Technology at Harvard Medical School and MIT since 1999. In these roles Jeff has personally mentored over 100 graduate and undergraduate students on field projects in East Africa. In 2010 Jeff was awarded the Olympus Emerging Education Leadership Award for his efforts.
Jeff received his Doctorate and Masters Degrees from The Harvard School of Public Health and his Bachelors of Science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Philip Kong
Philip is an attorney with deep experience in the areas of Technology, Licensing,
Strategic Collaborations and Startups. He previously worked at Children's Hospital
Boston, where he was a licensing manager, liaison between Children's and the
Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technologies (CIMIT)
and the founder and director of the Pediatric Product Development Initiative, the
first organization in a U.S. academic medical center to focus on pediatric
medical devices.
In addition to licensing management work in gene therapy, tissue engineering and software, he established and managed partnerships in product design, development, reimbursement, engineering, manufacturing, and clinical trials leading to the development of four pediatric medical devices.
Philip received his MBA from MIT-Sloan and his JD from Harvard Law School. While at HLS, he served as Assistant to the Ambassador of Vanuatu to the United Nations during negotiations on the Rio Treaty on the Environment and immediately after receiving his J.D., worked in Peru consulting on approaches to creating a market economy in that country. In February 2006, he was appointed by Governor Mitt Romney to the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Corporation. He is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and New York and is a dual citizen of the United States and Jamaica.
Vikram Kumar
Vikram Sheel Kumar is a pioneer in the field of community based chronic disease management. He received a bachelor of science degree with honors in operations research from Columbia University. During his time at Columbia, he invented and patented a software tool to analyze multidimensional neuronal data.
In 2002 in the M.D. program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Vikram started Dimagi, a solutions company specializing in clinical interfaces, health information systems, and mobile technologies to manage global disease.
In 2004, Vikram was named the MIT Technology Review's Humanitarian of the Year and one of the world's 100 top innovators. He is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American, a founding Fellow of Media Lab Asia and a member of the advisory board of the Global Emerging Technology Institute (GETI). In 2006 he was featured as one of 14 design visionaries by Metropolis Magazine.