Victoria Hale

Victoria Hale
Victoria Hale
Alma mater	University of California, San Francisco
Awards	MacArthur Fellow
	Scientific career
Institutions	Food and Drug Administration (United States);; Genentech;; The Institute for OneWorld Health

Victoria Hale founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000^[1] and was its chairman and CEO until 2008, when she became Chair Emeritus. She then went on to found Medicines360, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing medicines for women and children, including pregnant women.

Life

Hale earned her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from the UCSF School of Pharmacy. She is an Adjunct Associate professor in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, and an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Her past affiliations include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and Genentech.

Awards

2004 Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum (awarded by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship) Profile
2005 Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation (From The Economist magazine)
2006 MacArthur Fellow
2006 Ashoka Fellow
2007 One of Glamour Magazine's Women of the Year for her work developing and providing pharmaceutical care to the world's poor (http://www.glamour.com/news/woty/articles/2007/11/victoria_hale)

References

OneWorld Health team profiles

↑ Elias, Paul (2004-02-09). "Nonprofits Work With Drug Firms to Treat Diseases in Third World". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

Bibliography

Buse, Uwe Die Achse des Guten in der Spiegel nr. 48/27 Nov. 2006 (German language)

External links

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[1] Elias, Paul (2004-02-09). "Nonprofits Work With Drug Firms to Treat Diseases in Third World". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-05-01.