Allison Neale – Vice President, Public Policy, Henry Schein, Inc.; Managing Director, Henry Schein Cares Foundation
Allison Neale has worked in global health, corporate social responsibility and human rights for twenty-five years. As Henry Schein’s Vice President of Public Policy, Allison leads the company’s public policy and global health engagement by partnering with government, industry groups, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. Allison also leads the Henry Schein Cares Foundation, which advocates and supports efforts to advance health equity and empower healthcare professionals to promote a healthier tomorrow.
Allison leads Henry Schein’s engagement in several private sector initiatives in global health, including: the Private Sector Roundtable on Global Health Security (where she serves as Chairwoman), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Corporate Roundtable, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Supply Chain Taskforce, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Initiative to Build Resilient and Ethical Supply Chains, the National Academy of Medicine Decarbonization of the Healthcare Sector Collaborative, International Panel of Experts for The Economist, NTI and Brown University Global Health Security Index, and various engagements with the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization. She co-directs Henry Schein’s engagement as private sector lead of the Pandemic Supply Chain Network, a global public-private initiative aimed at strengthening the resilience of the healthcare supply chain, which the company co-founded in 2015.
Allison serves as Chairwoman of the Gold Foundation Corporate Council and leads the company’s engagement with the UN Global Humanitarian Action Executive Alliance. In addition, she co-founded and serves as Co-Chair of the Alpha Omega-Henry Schein Cares Holocaust Survivor Oral Health Program, a program that has since 2015 provided free dental care to more than 2,000 survivors in need across North America. Allison has published several articles on the power of the stakeholder engagement model, including “The Flywheel Philosophy,” published in Strategy + Business Magazine, and frequently participates as a speaker on public panels at a variety of forums, including the World Health Organization, World Economic Forum, World Health Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative and the Global Oral Health Forum.
Prior to joining Team Schein in 2008, Allison served as Senior Advocacy Associate at Global Health Strategies; International Human Rights Officer at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights; Senior Associate in the Strategic Planning Unit of the Office of the Secretary-General at the United Nations; and Research and Investigations Coordinator at Physicians for Human Rights. Allison received her Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, where she was awarded the Pforzheimer Merit Fellowship, and received her Bachelor’s Degree magna cum laude from Tufts University. She lives in New York City with her family.