Vrunda Rathod has extensive health policy experience. She started her career for U.S. Congresswoman Diane Watson as a legislative aide focusing on both national and global health care, foreign affairs, and environmental policy. She lead the Congresswoman’s global health policy, on issues including IP, foreign aid, and programmatic developments. When the Congresswoman retired, she decided to move back to California and spent time consulting for Kaiser Permanente, until an exciting opportunity in Liberia came along. She worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative to research maternal and newborn deaths in the country. Her research helped the country win a grant that is focused on improving maternal care in the country. Upon returning from Liberia, she helped design and implement a program for ethical thinking in synthetic biology, called synbio LEAP. For the last three year, she was working to bring a low cost treatment for postpartum hemorrhage to low income countries at InPress Technologies. At InPress she led the global marketing, working to understand users and their interaction with the InPress product. She is currently an independent marketing consultant for a number of global health medtech companies. Vrunda holds an undergraduate degree from USC in Biomedical Engineering and a graduate degree in Biomedical Science Policy from Georgetown University.