Physician and evolutionary biologist B. Natterson-Horowitz, MD, PhD, develops strategies and tools applying evolutionary and comparative biology to uncover insights for human health. She is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and served as Chair of the National Academies' Board on Animal Health Sciences, Conservation, and Research, as President of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, and serves on the NASEM' Life Sciences and Biotechnology Program advisory board. 

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She has pioneered a species-spanning approach to health that explores the natural world as a powerful source of lifesaving insights for human medicine. Her global cross-species health conferences (Zoobiquity conferences) have convened thousands of physicians, veterinarians, wildlife experts, and evolutionary biologists, sparking dozens of collaborations aimed at inspiring new approaches to  human health challenges, from depression and heart failure to breast cancer and infertility. Invited to keynote the Nobel Conference (2019), Dr. Natterson-Horowitz laid out the scientific potential of cross-species biomedicine to accelerate progress on some of the most intractable challenges in human health. She translates her research for audiences far beyond the scientific community through her New York Times bestselling and award-winning science books.