The World’s Roads Can Be Deadly: What Works to Make Them Safer?

Kelly Larson has 30 years of experience managing local, national, and international public health programs.

She currently directs Bloomberg Philanthropies’ road safety, drowning prevention, and Partnership for Healthy Cities programs, while also providing technical support to partners and grantees in the tobacco control initiative. Kelly supports Mike Bloomberg in his role as the World Health Organization’s Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries, and was part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies team partnering with New York State to ramp up its contact tracing program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining Bloomberg Philanthropies in August 2008, Kelly managed local, national, and international public health programs with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, National Hemophilia Foundation, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Fiji and the Pacific Islands, and served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer on a remote outer island in the Federated States of Micronesia. 

Kelly received her Master of Public Health from Columbia University and studied Communications at Pacific Lutheran University.