Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH

Dr. Pierre Vigilance is a health executive with 20+ years experience working in non-profits, government, academia, and strategy consulting. His primary expertise is in population health strategies and the social determinants of health and he has a notable background in organizational leadership, health policy, community engagement, and operations management.

As the Vice President for Population Health & Social Impact at ConsenSys Health (a spin-off of the Ethereum-based blockchain software technology company ConsenSys) he is responsible for developing partnerships, platforms and products designed to address the most challenging problems and transforming the health of communities in the process. His advisory consultancy, HealthUp uses multi-sector partnerships to bring impact to each of their engagements. HealthUp works with family offices, health systems, housing, education, and technology partners to create equity and justice-focused solutions to the health and wellness challenges faced by underserved communities. As the former health commissioner for Baltimore County and Washington, D.C., he led local responses to HIV, disease outbreaks (SARS in 2003, and H1N1 in 2009), and addressed preventable causes of death. He approaches the health challenges highlighted by COVID-19 with a primary focus on outreach and engagement strategies, community development, and technology.

After his time in government, he became the first Associate Dean for Practice at the George Washington University School of Public Health where he still teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the department of Health Policy &  Management. He currently serves the Philadelphia community on the boards of Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic’s regional board, and Community Transformation Partners, a group established to bring a holistic equitable development approach to the transformation of a West Philadelphia middle neighborhood with buildings as amenities for economic and health mobility. In July 2021 he joined the national board of Volunteers of America.

Dr. Vigilance trained clinically in Emergency Medicine at Howard University Hospital and is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He often says he is on an evolving health journey and maintains his balance aided by healthy doses of prayer, good food, burpees, and music. In his spare time, he enjoys interviewing guests for his Apple podcast, Junctional Thinking. He currently resides with his family in Philadelphia, PA.