Karen Pak Oppenheimer, MS, MPH
Karen is a strategy and operations adviser for philanthropic, social enterprise and nonprofit organizations, currently focusing on climate action and the COVID-19 pandemic response. Most recently, she supported the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s contact tracing efforts as a strategy and operations consultant. Previously, she served as chief operating officer for Institute for Transformative Technologies, as vice president of World Health Partners, spending the last decade centered on bringing healthcare services to rural India and East Africa through technology innovations and market-based approaches. She also worked for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oracle Corporation, the United Nations Population Fund (China), and start-up biotechnology companies. Karen serves as board chair of OASIS Sahel, director at Social Alpha Foundation, and a Regent at the Mercersburg Academy. She holds a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a master of science in biotechnology from Northwestern University, and a master of public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Karen is a native of Hong Kong, speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish.