William Rodriguez

Dr. Rodriguez has been a leader in global health for more than two decades. He is the former founder and CEO of Daktari Diagnostics, an HIV diagnostic company, and is now a Managing Director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK), a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises.

Dr. Rodriguez was the former Chief Medical Officer at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a global NGO that aids in bringing new diagnostic tools to market in resource-limited settings, and from 2003-2007 he served as Chief Medical Officer of the Clinton Foundation, responsible for strategy and market development for global health products and clinical policies and programs.

Dr. Rodriguez held the role of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School for five years, Research Associate of Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for six years, and was a member of the clinical staff at MGH and at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH) for more than a decade. He served as the Chief Medical Resident at BWH following his residency.

Dr. Rodriguez earned his M.D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine and a Sc.B. degree in Neural Sciences from Brown University.