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Steve Downs is a co-founder of Building H, a nonprofit research group dedicated to changing the product environment so that it creates health, not disease. Prior to his role at Building H, Steve was the chief technology and strategy officer at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) where he led a transformation of the Foundation’s practice of program strategy. Over his career at RWJF, Steve held a variety of management roles — including chief technology and information officer, assistant vice president of the health group, and founding leader of the foundation’s innovation portfolio — while also funding and working directly with a broad portfolio of innovators at the intersection of tech and health. Downs is a lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University and adjunct faculty at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
January 2025
