Seeking a Cure for Inequity in Access to Medicines (Innovations Case Narrative: The Institute for OneWorld Health)

Victoria Hale is founder and chief executive officer of the Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH). Dr. Hale has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, is the recipient John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2006), and has been selected as an Ashoka Fellow. She received the Executive of the Year by Esquire Magazine (2005), The Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation (2005), and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation (2005). Dr. Hale established her expertise in all stages of biopharmaceutical drug development at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and at Genentech, Inc., the world's first biotechnology company. Dr. Hale earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship has recognized Victoria Hale as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur.