Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

CTL-E-6752 · Person · physician · 1954–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (born 1954) is a geriatrician who from 2003 to 2017 was president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — the first woman and the first African American to lead the nation's largest health philanthropy. She steered the foundation toward a national 'culture of health' framework and major investments against childhood obesity. She is now a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and served as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — geriatrician; President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Photo: Photo: World Economic Forum · CC BY 3.0 · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Risa_Lavizzo-Mourey_at_the_World_Economic_Forum.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6752. · Photo size note (as staged): Largest original available on Wikimedia Commons is 853x989; below the 1200px long-edge preference — used as-is, never upscaled.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Risa Lavizzo-Mourey' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risa_Lavizzo-Mourey

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