Master’s Tea with Erica Frenkel

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Pierson College Master's House See map
231 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Erica Frenkel is the Vice President of Gradian Health Systems, a New York-based social enterprise working to bring safe anesthesia to hospitals all over the world. Gradian recently pioneered a simplified universal anesthesia machine appropriate for low-income settings, where electricity is unreliable and biomedical engineers are not available to fix machines. Before joining Gradian, Erica served as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, managed the Global Media AIDS Initiative for the Kaiser Family Foundation and helped shape public health initiatives as a consultant for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Liberian Ministry of Health, Merck Vaccines and the Wellcome Trust.