Brendan has over 20 years of policy, strategy and business development experience in health
care. He began his career at the National Governors Association in Washington, DC, working
on health reform between the US Federal Government and states. Following NGA, Brendan
attended the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar, where he studied the impact
of the Blair Government’s choice and competition reforms in the NHS and earned an MSc in
International Health Policy and Economics. He then spent 12 years working for Optum in the
UK in a number of UK and global strategy roles, with a focus on use of data to improve
population health. Recently, Brendan joined Uber as Head of International for Health, where he
is building a global strategy to remove transportation and logistics as a barrier to care.