Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, is a global health expert and the first ever World Health Organization Director-General Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, responsible for providing strategic advice, high-level advocacy, and support of the organization’s work to address climate change in relation to human health. Kerry is also the CEO of Seed Global Health, a nonprofit she co-founded in 2013 that trains and invests in the health workforce and medical systems in resource-limited countries. Over more than a decade, Seed Global Health has helped educate more than 47,000 doctors, nurses, and midwives in seven countries, contributing to improvements in health care for more than 76 million people. In addition to her roles at WHO and Seed Global, Kerry directs the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, focusing on addressing economic, social, and cultural disparities through health care. An associate professor of medicine at Harvard, she is a critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and serves as the associate director of partnerships and global initiatives at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health. Kerry holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from Yale University, a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and a master’s degree in health policy, planning, and financing from the London Schools of Economics and of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.