Thursday\, November 20\, 2025\, from 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. ET
The Alumni in Residence program connects current H LS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring an d advice. You’re invited to meet with Afia Asamoah J.D. '04 during their vi rtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.
Afia Asamoah has built her career at the intersection of technol ogy and health. She joined Google as the company’s first healthcare lawyer\ , advising teams developing medical software and AI. Her work included nego tiating Google’s first patent-licensing agreement with Novartis\, helping t o form Verily Life Sciences\, and supporting Verily financing rounds of $80 0 million and $1 billion.
After nearly eight years in senior health roles at Google\, most recently as Head of Legal for the Google Heal th business unit\, Afia co-founded Waymark\, a health technology start-up t hat uses proprietary technology and community-based teams to improve care d elivery to people with Medicaid benefits.
Afia is recognized as a leader and digital health innovator. Prior to joining Google\, from 20 09-2011\, Afia served as Special Assistant in the U.S. Food and Drug Admini stration Commissioner's Office\, where she created a new FDA center for reg ulating tobacco products and led initiatives to increase technology innovat ion by biotech and medical devices companies.
Outside of work \, she serves as board director for Lucille Packard Stanford Children’s Hos pital\, chairing the audit committee\, as board director and vice chair of the Public Health Institute\, and is on the governing board of the Carol Em mott Foundation. Afia received her J.D. from Harvard Law School\, her MPP f rom the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government\, and her BA from H arvard University.
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