Jessica Halem

Welcome to my channel. I’m Jessica Halem — Currently, I am co-founder of a start-up as well as a long time public speaker who makes difficult subjects fun.

My work lives at the intersection of women’s health, LGBTQ health, strategy, and change. I’ve spent my career helping people and institutions see what they have missed — from cancer prevention for lesbian and bisexual women, to LGBTQ inclusion in medical education, to the urgent need for better treatments for women in midlife and beyond.

I’ve worked in public policy, nonprofit leadership, academic medicine, start-ups, fundraising, comedy, and now biotech — which is a weird résumé, but honestly, comes together nicely. I trained at Second City in Chicago, gave grand rounds at medical schools and hospitals around the world, helped transform LGBTQ health education at Harvard Medical School, published in places like The New England Journal of Medicine, and now I’m running a start-up.

I am from Ohio but now call Massachusetts home.