Rachel Barron

As Senior Manager, Health Equity, Rachel is focused on diversity, health equity, and social inclusion within the rare disease community. Prior to joining Global Genes, she spent 6 years working in Rare on the marketing side in orphan drug development before joining the Peace Corps where she worked with youth aged 10 to 24 on prevention of HIV / AIDS and malaria in Mozambique, southeast Africa. Since coming back from Moz, Rachel worked as a team supervisor, overseeing 20 contact tracers with the contact tracing initiative in New York State, in an effort to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in her community.

Rachel is passionate about social and environmental justice, and supporting patients and families to find their voice both within and outside the Rare community.