Michele Barry, M.D., FACP, FASTMH, is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health. Dr. Barry is the founder of the Gates-funded nonprofit WomenLift Health, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has written on the impact of COVID-19 on female academics amongst other areas of scholarship in tropical diseases, human and planetary health as well as global and refugee health.