Rebecca Onie

Overview

In 1996 Rebecca Onie co founded Health Leads to address the fundamental drivers of patients health. With our hospital community health center and integrated delivery system partners Health Leads has enabled physicians and other healthcare providers across the country to prescribe food electricity and other basic resources their patients need to be healthy and armed a variety of workforces to fill those social needs prescriptions by working side by side with patients to access the existing landscape of community resources.Health Leads arms healthcare institutions with the tools technology analytics best practices and peer community necessary to address their own patients resource needs and to champion a healthcare system that address all patients basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. Last year Health Leads directly served over 14000 patients and their families touching nearly 50000 total lives.In 2009 Rebecca was honored to receive a MacArthur Genius Fellowship. She has also been recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation s 2012 Young Leader Award Network for Excellence in Health Innovation s 2014 Innovators in Health Award Forbes Magazine s Impact 30 recognizing the world s top 30 social entrepreneurs and the Schwab Foundation s 2013 Social Entrepreneur of the Year. Rebecca is one of the Aspen Institute s inaugural Health Innovator Fellows a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader member of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation External Advisory Council and a One Acre Fund board member.She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She previously clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and was an associate at Miner Barnhill & Galland P.C. a civil rights and community economic development firm.