What if the technology we build could make us more human, not less?

That question has driven Patricia (Patty) Mechael across 45 countries and three decades of work at the intersection of digital health, AI, and human flourishing. As a global health leader, researcher, and award-winning author, Patty uses her public health lens to encode human values into the systems, frameworks, and stories she creates — from AI implementations in the health systems and the workplace to middle-grade novels about kids fighting for a better world.

Whether she's advising governments, building frameworks for healthier AI, or writing fiction that hands the next generation the tools to think critically about technology, Patty's work carries a single conviction: people first, always.