Dirk Schroeder
Adjunct Associate Professor, Practice of Business Administration @Emory University - Goizueta Business School
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WORK HISTORY
Adjunct Associate Professor, Practice of Business Administration @Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Atlanta, GA, US
I\'m thrilled to receive an affiliated adjunct appointment at the Emory Goizueta Business School, alongside my long-standing appointment at Emory\'s Rollin\'s School of Public Health* I look forward to working more closely with business school students and faculty in the areas of social enterprise and entrepreneurship, impact investing, digital innovation, global business, consumerism, and digital health.* My goal is to develop and strengthen collaborations between Emory\'s Schools of Public Health and the Business School, as well as partnerships with other business & public health schools around the country and world seeking to accelerate the transformation of healthcare through digital innovation.* Inquires, ideas and opportunities for collaboration welcome!
EDUCATION
Stanford University
B.A., Human Biology
The Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Science & Master in Public Health (MPH), International Health
Cornell University
Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Nutrition
SKILLS
ABOUT DIRK SCHROEDER
I am an \"accidental entrepreneur\". In I relinquished tenure at a top university to co-found an early digital health company (HolaDoctor Inc, like WebMD, in Spanish), a decision that radically changed the course of my career. Eighteen years of hard work later, HolaDoctor was acquired in full by a global insurance company. With the goal of helping other entrepreneurs do what I did, but faster, I am the founding principal of Updraft Health Innovation Advisors (https://updraftadvisors.com/) and an Associate Professor of Global Health and Business at Emory University, where I teach a graduate-level course on Social Entrepreneurship for Global Health. I am recently the Managing Director of the \"Advancing Health Innovation in Africa\"(AHIA) program at Emory University. At AHIA, we are working closely with African institutions, universities and entrepreneurs, as well as global corporations and social impact investors, to improve health outcomes while strengthening local economies. Prior to co-founding HolaDoctor, I spent 20 years working in Internationally in public health programs, primarily in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam) and Central America (Guatemala, Mexico). I am fluent in Spanish and Bahasa Indonesian. Specialties: Commercializing digital health innovations; Africa; Latin America; telehealth and telemedicine, strategic consulting and marketing, business strategies to grow sales with Hispanic and multicultural consumers in the U.S. and emerging markets. Cultural adaptation for Health. Research design. Use of innovative technologies to address health disparities, multicultural marketing and sales, public health innovation and social entrepreneurship. Global health.
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