Vanessa Mason

Vanessa Mason is a strategist in product development and business development. At ZeroDivide, Vanessa manages the eHealth project portfolio, contributing to design, development, and adoption of digital health products to eliminate health disparities. She also identifies opportunities for partnership development and digital health policy advocacy.

Vanessa has been involved with health care tech development throughout her career, building mobile physician networks in West Africa and educating managers of community health workers on mobile health data analysis in East Africa.

A small list of big accomplishments:

• Catalyzed the growth of a network of Mozambican NGOs involved in HIV/AIDS.
• Mobilized HIV/AIDS patients in Argentina to protect their right to health.
• Connected thousands in Africa to better health care quality and coordination for the United Nations Millennium Villages Project.
• Advised the Brazilian Ministry of Health on child and adolescent mental health policy development.
• Directed XX in Health, a national leadership initiative for female entrepreneurs and innovators in health care.

An avid traveler, Vanessa has been to over 25 countries on five continents and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. She's passionate about social impact, music and dance from the African diaspora, travel, wine, whiskey and all things nerdy.

Vanessa is an alum of Yale and Columbia.