Rebecca G. Kinney is a primary care physician and the Executive Director of The Beckon Foundation. Building on her clinical service to patients in urban, rural, and refugee clinic settings, Dr. Kinney’s recent work has focused on optimizing vaccine supply chains, integrating HIV and sexual and reproductive health for young women, and supporting innovative models of care delivery for last-mile communities in the global South. She endeavors to be a risk-tolerant funder of health systems and to change the paradigms for health financing to support a rights-based approach to health. Through an experiential and experimental model, Dr. Kinney’s current investments span geographies, partners, leadership structures, size and scale as an intentional strategy to better understand what works and why. She leverages her medical background as well as her experience with the private sector and venture philanthropy to bring context and credibility to her work and to serve as a bridge between patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that finance health.

Rebecca graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in History and Literature from Harvard University. She has an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed residency and fellowship training at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho. She holds an MSc in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She lives with her husband and three children in Colorado.