Vivian Hsu

Vivian Hsu

Deputy Director, Vaccine Development and Surveillance; Deputy Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases

Vivian Hsu oversees business operations for two foundation programs: Vaccine Development and Surveillance and Neglected Tropical Diseases. Her responsibilities range from day-to-day business management to leading major cross-foundation initiatives.

Vivian joined the foundation in 2016 from the health sector, where she started as a consultant to U.S. pharmaceutical companies and then worked for McKinsey & Co. in Hong Kong, developing China market strategies for multinational pharmaceutical and hospital corporations.

Earlier, Vivian worked at Evolent Health, a population health services company. She led a team that built Evolent’s payer partnership practice, which worked with hospitals to design value-based care infrastructure and negotiate population-based contracts with private insurance companies, Medicare, and state Medicaid agencies.

Vivian graduated from Yale University with a degree in political science and East Asian studies and has an MBA in health care management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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