Board Trustee, Boston Children’s Hospital; Advisory Board, Harvard Public Health Journal; and Board Director, Care Academy
Dr. Ivor Braden Horn is an advisor, investor, physician and technology executive with experience in entrepreneurial, venture, academic medicine, health system and research organizations. She is an internationally recognized leader in health equity, social determinants of health and healthcare innovation having presented at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), FDA, World Health Summit, HLTH (US & Europe), SXSW, Cannes Lion to most recently, she served as the founding director and first Chief Health Equity Officer at Google, where she led the company-wide strategy to develop, launch and scale health equity within research, product and GTM initiatives to ensure they were diverse, fair, accessible and inclusive. While at Google, she also led a study to develop the HEAL (Health Equity Assessment of machine Learning performance) framework to quantitatively assess the performance equity of health AI technologies. The HEAL framework is a methodology to assess whether health AI technologies prioritize performance for patient populations experiencing worse outcomes, that is complementary to existing fairness metrics.
Prior to her role at Google, Dr. Horn served as Chief Medical Officer at Accolade. Before Accolade, she served as Medical Director of the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She holds an MD and MPH and has authored several peer-reviewed journal publications on health communication and health equity.
Dr. Horn currently serves as a Board Trustee for Boston Children's Hospital, on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Public Health Journal and a Board Director for Care Academy.
IGS1 - Opening General Session
Monday, October 28, 2024
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT