Rick Bright
Bright Global Health
Rick A. Bright, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of Bright Global Health. He is an internationally recognized expert in pandemic preparedness and response. As CEO of the Pandemic Prevention Institute at The Rockefeller Foundation, Rick led the development of a data-to-action platform to detect, prevent, and rapidly mitigate pandemic threats. Previously, he served in the U.S .Department of Health and Human Services as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and as Director of Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), where he established public-private partnerships tha