Barbara Bush

Overview

Barbara Bush is CEO & Co founder of Global Health Corps (GHC) which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twenty somethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co founders were united by the belief that health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized. Since that time GHC has placed more than 700 young leaders on the front lines of health equity in Burundi Uganda Tanzania Malawi Rwanda Zambia and the United States developing a cadre of creative effective and compassionate changemakers. Prior to GHC Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum where she supported design thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked with Red Cross Children s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana. Barbara is a member of UNICEF s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011 Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine s Women of the Year in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek s Women of Impact and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.