Thomas F. Burke, MD, FACEP

Director, Global Health Innovation Lab in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Thomas F. Burke, MD is the Director of the Global Health Innovation Lab in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital as well as a practicing emergency physician. He was the founding Director of the MGH Center for Global Health. Prior to the MGH, Dr. Burke was Associate Clinical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a senior faculty member for the hospital’s Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Burke is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Harvard Center for African Studies.

Anuj Bellare, PhD

Anuj leads the Vayu engineering team and is focused on solving clinical needs in the area of Global Health.  Prior to his work at Vayu, he led a research program on polymers used as orthopedic biomaterials as a faculty at Harvard Medical School and Director of Orthopedic Nanotechnology Laboratory at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.    He has a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Polymer Science) from MIT, and a Postdoctoral degree from Princeton.