Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.

Governor Josh Green, a physician by profession, graduated from Swarthmore College and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He served in the Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives and the Hawaiʻi State Senate, focusing on healthcare initiatives. Governor Green was recognized for his leadership in healthcare, providing health insurance for every child in the state of Hawaii, and passing “Lukeʻs Law,” which provides insurance coverage for kids with autism. He also helped spearhead the creation of the Cancer Research Center, passed groundbreaking anti-tobacco legislation, which increased the legal age for purchasing tobacco and e-cigarettes to 21, and created a statewide trauma healthcare system. Elected Lieutenant Governor in 2018, he addressed homelessness and led medical missions during emergencies, including the measles epidemic in Western Samoa and the COVID-19 pandemic in Hawai‘i. Governor Green's medical service earned him recognition, including two Hawaii Medical Association Physician of the Year awards. He's married with two children and remains committed to serving the people of Hawai‘i as Governor.

Dr. Bechara Choucair is the Executive Vice President and Chief Health Officer for Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading integrated health systems with more than 12.5 million members. His work includes the creation of the nation’s largest social health network to meet the housing, food, and transportation needs of Kaiser Permanente’s members. He also manages the organization’s community health portfolio, including $3.4 billion dedicated to supporting medical financial assistance and charitable care as well as grants and community health initiatives. From January through November 2021, Dr. Choucair served as the White House national COVID-19 vaccinations coordinator. In that role, he focused on coordinating the timely, safe, and equitable administration of COVID-19 vaccinations for the U.S. population. During his tenure, more than 450 million doses of the vaccine were administered nationwide. He returned to Kaiser Permanente in December 2021. Dr. Choucair served as Chicago’s Public Health Commissioner from 2009 to 2014. Among other accolades, Dr. Choucair has been named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Health Executives in the U.S., one of the Most Influential People in Healthcare, and one of the Top 25 Innovators in Healthcare. A family physician by training, he completed his family practice residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He holds an MD from the American University of Beirut and a master’s degree in health care management from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Britt Wray, PhD is a researcher and author working at the nexus of climate change and mental health. Britt is the Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry, a research and action initiative focused on Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership, and Emotional well-being in the Stanford School of Medicine. She is the Founder of Unthinkable, a non-profit on a mission to connect laypeople to resources and community supports for building psychological resilience to climate disruption. She is also the author of two books, and her latest Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety, is an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane in the climate crisis, which was a national bestseller and shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is a recipient of the Canadian Eco-Hero Award and top winner of the Excellence in Science Communications award given by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. As a global speaker, Britt has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum, and her work has been covered in the New York Times, New Yorker and The Guardian, among other leading publications.

Dr. Sohini Stone, MD, MBA, leads the Global Employee Health team at Google, focused on cross-company strategy to provide an integrated portfolio of equitable, evidence-based programs and services to promote health and wellbeing of Google’s workforce, their family members, and the community around them. The team focuses across the spectrum of physical, mental and social health. Sohini has a background in quality, patient safety, and process improvement, and sits on the board of Health Care Without Harm. Prior to joining Google, she led clinical, quality, and business analytics teams at a late stage Silicon Valley health start-up. Sohini received both her Medical Degree and Masters in Business Administration from Boston University, completed Pediatrics residency at Dartmouth Medical School, and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at Stanford/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Shyam Bishen is joining the Forum from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he was Regional/Deputy Director of Life Sciences Partnerships in Seattle. Before working at the Gates Foundation, he was Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and Innovation as well as Vice President & General Manager of Biosimilars Business Unit at Merck, based out of the company headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Prior to joining Merck, Dr. Bishen was Vice President of Corporate Development at Ranbaxy based in New Delhi, India and Princeton, New Jersey. Before moving to Ranbaxy, he worked with Pfizer/Pharmacia in New Jersey and Schein in New York.

Jennifer Uchendu is the founder of SustyVibes, a youth-led and youth focused organization driving sustainability advocacy and implementation in Africa. Recently, her work has focused on climate change and mental health where she is exploring safeguarding and support systems for Africans through research, advocacy and community action. Jennifer has a masters degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, UK under the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. She is also an alumnus of the Cambridge Institute For Sustainability Leadership and the Lagos Business School. In 2017, Jennifer co-authored the e-book: “A Guide to Business Sustainability in Nigeria.”

Andrea Mechelli is a Professor of Early Intervention in Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College in London (United Kingdom). His research involves the use of smartphone technologies, electronic medical records and machine learning to investigate the impacts of extreme heat events on mental health in vulnerable urban communities and the mitigation of these impacts by nature-based solutions. He is the leading investigator on Urban Mind, a cross-disciplinary and cross-sector project that brings together neuroscientists, clinicians, urban planners and designers, architects and artists with a shared interest in the mental health of urban communities.

Dr. Toledo is the Chief of Service for Urgent Care in the Northwest Region, practicing both Urgent Care and Hospital Medicine. Her training is in medically complex, urban underserved safety-net hospitals at University of Chicago in South Chicago for medical school and Boston University Medical Center and South Boston federally qualified health center in Family Medicine residency. She is a physician speaker and correspondent whose work appears in state new outlets, podcasts and KevinMD. Her interests include health system disaster management and health care worker and system roles in climate resilience at both an operational and individual patient level. Her early career experience in disaster management and began when she ascended the Chief of Service role May 2020 in time for COVID19 and a simultaneous, record-breaking Oregon wildfire season that resulted in worst air quality in the world at the time and threatened a hospital and urgent care campus. One of her mentors is Dr.Colin Cave from the NW Region who is serving on the National Academy of Medicine Climate Action Collaborative. When she is not practicing medicine she enjoys musical theater, dancing to early aughts (we’re talking Backstreet Boys and old Britney here) and imitating animals for her toddler.