Lucy Marcil, MD, MPH is a pediatrician and social entrepreneur passionate about making life easier and healthier for individual families and using that on-the-ground experience to redesign systems at scale.
For a decade, Dr. Marcil has pioneered national innovations (StreetCred, Health by Wealth Collective) addressing economic strain and inequities to improve maternal and child health. She served as a health policy advisor in Congress as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Policy Fellow. She has consulted on maternal and child health care system redesign internationally in Kenya, Bangladesh, and Namibia.
Dr. Marcil is a national speaker (TED, PBS Brief but Spectacular, Aspen Ideas Health, Congressional and White House forums), and writer (RealClear Policy, The Atlantic, NEJM, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics). Her work has been featured in outlets such as BBC, NPR, and The Boston Globe. For her work, she has been recognized as a TED Fellow and Aspen Ascend fellow. Dr. Marcil completed her MD at the University of Pennsylvania, MPH at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and pediatrics training at the Boston Combined Residency Program (Harvard University, Boston University).