Emmanuel D’Harcourt

Dr. Emmanuel d’Harcourt is the Chief Program and Innovation Officer, he is a pediatrician and public health expert with over 20 years of international experience.

Emmanuel has worked as a clinician, researcher, outbreak responder, and manager for organizations including the Pasteur Institute, the International Rescue Committee, and Vital Strategies. He started his international health work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. At the IRC, he developed new child health programs in six countries, and led a team of sixty professionals providing technical support to programs serving over 20 million people. He has helped to scale child health programs in several countries, including Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Emmanuel has worked primarily in Africa but also in Asia and Latin America. His work focuses on programs that are led by communities and host governments.

Emmanuel received a comparative literature degree from Yale University, a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University; he completed a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.