Register for Forward Thinking: Creating a Pandemic Recovery Playbook
Forward Thinking brings together the leading industry voices from health, technology, and economics to discuss COVID-19 recovery efforts and the most pressing issues of the crisis.
Join Forward Founder and CEO, Adrian Aoun, and Medical Lead, Dr. Nate Favini, for a discussion with Dr. Sara Cody, Public Health Department Director of Santa Clara County, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, and Dr. Bob Wachter Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. For the first time, this esteemed group will come together to explore the “what’s next” in fighting COVID-19. From reopening the economy to scaling testing to reach impact, this session will be anchored in an open and unfiltered dialogue on what really needs to happen and how to get there.
Register to watch Forward Thinking live on Friday, May 29 at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on joining.
Meet the Panelists
Sara H. Cody, MD is a physician, epidemiologist and public health official serving as the health officer and public health director of Santa Clara County, California. Her timely implementation of stay-at-home orders in coordination with other San Francisco Bay Area health officials is credited with preventing an estimated 188,000 hospitalizations and 19,000 deaths in major Bay Area cities.
Nate Favini, MD, MS is a physician and serving as Medical Lead at Forward. Prior to joining Forward, he was Director of Primary Care at CareMore Health System, an innovative health plan and care delivery system with over 100,000 members in eight states.
Jim Yong Kim, MD is a physician and anthropologist. He is Vice Chairman and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund that invests in infrastructure projects across several sectors around the world. He served as the 12th President of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
Robert Wachter, MD is a prominent academic physician on the faculty of UCSF, where he is chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine, and the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine.
Meet the Moderator
Adrian Aoun is the Founder and CEO of Forward. He was the head of special projects for the CEO of Google/Alphabet, where he founded one of the Alphabet companies, Sidewalk Labs. He is an active angel investor and adviser to a number of technology startups and funds.
We look forward to you joining us live on Friday, May 29 at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET for Forward Thinking.
