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About Ayah Hamdan

Ayah Hamdan was born and raised in the Bay Area, having a front row seat to Silicon Valley’s tech and innovation growth. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health from UC Berkeley and a Master’s in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ayah has managed to blend her background in academia and quantitative health science with her interests in early stage technologies. While at Harvard Ayah launched her own startup, Fatima Connect which was a consulting and implementation service focused on bridging digital health solutions to refugee women users. Ayah also previously served in a leadership role at Carbon Health, primarily supporting their COVID-19 response initiatives. Currently, she works in VC & Corporate Innovation at Plug and Play ventures, driving their early stage digital health investments and supporting needs of corporate clients such as Roche, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Anthem, etc. Outside of her role at Plug and Play, she helps out at her family’s brunch restaurant in San Francisco.