Dr. Jessica Beckerman

Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer

Muso

Dr. Jessica Beckerman is a health justice advocate who works to end preventable deaths, rooted in poverty, by building rapid universal health care systems. Jessica is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Muso, whose work in Mali on a community based proactive model of care, observed a 10-fold difference in child mortality -- ultimately arriving at a rate lower than any country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Jessica has worked in Mali since 2004, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Brown University, her degree in Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. She works clinically as an obstetrician at Highland Hospital, a public safety net hospital and large teaching hospital in Oakland, California. Jessica currently serves as Muso's Chief Medical Officer overseeing quality and integrated care delivery from community to clinic to hospital. Prior to co-founding Muso, she worked in West Africa for Tostan and as a Project Manager at Partners in Health. Jessica is the recipient of the 2021 Charles Bronfman Prize.