Alumni in Residence with Afia Asamoah J.D. ’04 of Waymark, Inc.

Thursday, November 20, 2025, from 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. ET

The Alumni in Residence program connects current HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring and advice. You’re invited to meet with Afia Asamoah J.D. ’04 during their virtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.

Afia Asamoah has built her career at the intersection of technology and health. She joined Google as the company’s first healthcare lawyer, advising teams developing medical software and AI. Her work included negotiating Google’s first patent-licensing agreement with Novartis, helping to form Verily Life Sciences, and supporting Verily financing rounds of $800 million and $1 billion.

After nearly eight years in senior health roles at Google, most recently as Head of Legal for the Google Health business unit, Afia co-founded Waymark, a health technology start-up that uses proprietary technology and community-based teams to improve care delivery to people with Medicaid benefits.

Afia is recognized as a leader and digital health innovator. Prior to joining Google, from 2009-2011, Afia served as Special Assistant in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner’s Office, where she created a new FDA center for regulating tobacco products and led initiatives to increase technology innovation by biotech and medical devices companies.

Outside of work, she serves as board director for Lucille Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital, chairing the audit committee, as board director and vice chair of the Public Health Institute, and is on the governing board of the Carol Emmott Foundation. Afia received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, her MPP from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and her BA from Harvard University.