Dr. Molly Joel Coye is Social Entrepreneur in Residence for the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), a nonprofit national health policy institute focused on advancing high-value innovations. From 2010 – 2015, Dr. Coye was the Chief Innovation Officer for UCLA Health, heading the Institute for Innovation in Health and the Global Lab for Innovation. Dr. Coye was previously the founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (HealthTech), a non-profit education and research organization established in 2000 that became the premier forecasting organization for emerging technologies in healthcare, as well as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey, Director of the California State Department of Health Services, and Head of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Dr. Coye is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and of the board of directors for Aetna, Inc., Prosetta Biosciences, Inc., Big White Wall, and ACCESS Health International. She previously served as Chair of the Board of Directors for PATH, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in global health, and on the boards of the American Hospital Association, the American Telemedicine Association, the American Public Health Association, and the China Medical Board.

Dr. Coye holds MD and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Asian History from Stanford University.