Jose W. Rodriguez

William R. Rodriguez MD, is the co-founder and CEO of Daktari Diagnostics, Inc., a global health diagnostics company. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine, and trained in infectious disease medicine at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident. While at Harvard, he established a research program on the use of appropriate diagnostics in global health. In 2003, he left Harvard to become the Chief Medical Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation, where he helped broker pricing agreements between African and Asian governments, and the major suppliers of HIV drugs and diagnostic tests. He remained at the Clinton Foundation through 2007, working with governments and donor agencies throughout the world on the scale-up of national HIV treatment programs. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global HIV and tuberculosis treatment, has been an advisor to more than a dozen national governments, and served as a member of the WHO's global HIV guidelines committee.