Kate Black
Staff Counsel, Health Privacy, Center for Democracy and Technology
Kate Black serves as health privacy counsel at the Center for Democracy and Policy's San Francisco office. While in law school, she clerked for the Honorable John J. O'Sullivan in the Southern District of Florida, the ACLU's National Prison Project and the Department of Homeland Security as well as volunteering for the D.C. Health Insurance Counseling Project. She also worked for the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. While there, Black authored portions of the "Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward" report to the president and developed implementation strategies for policies including Texts for Baby, nanotechnology initiatives, STEM education and tobacco trade agreements. Black earned a B.S. in health sciences from Florida International University and a law degree from George Washington University, where she focused on health law and policy.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.