Melissa Estrada is a Program Coordinator with the Global Health Innovation Center and Innovations in Healthcare. Melissa focuses on planning, coordinating, and administrating IiH Innovator Network activities aimed at accelerating and scaling growth-stage innovators in the network, currently a multi-million-dollar portfolio of nearly 100 innovators in 92 countries. She works closely across multiple functional teams to coordinate all efforts to develop, engage, and grow a diverse community of innovators, corporations, foundations, public entities, investors, and funders. Melissa is a former Global Communications Officer for the University of Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Sociology with a minor in fitness from the University of Pittsburgh.