Gary Cohen is executive vice president of global health and president of the BD Foundation, a medical technology company with 65,000 employees worldwide. He is also a board director of the CDC Foundation and UNICEF USA, board co-chair of GBCHealth, and board chair and founder of Together for Girls. He previously served on the UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children, and presently serves as chair of the CDC/Corporate Roundtable on Global Health Threats and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Grand Challenges Canada.