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Nicholas Torres (he/him/his)

Executive Director
The Network: Towards Unity for Health
University of Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States

Nicholas Torres is a seasoned and successful Business, Healthcare and Human Services Executive with over 25 years of experience in C-suite executive leadership, serving in CEO and C-Suite Consulting roles throughout his career in start-up, small, and large social sector organizations. Nicholas works at the cross section between the private sector, government, and not-for-profits aligning them toward action on mutually agreed upon strategies and goals. He has designed, founded, and led and managed multiple for-profit, not-for-profit, and cross organization/system social ventures that are driven by social impact, financial sustainability, and systems change. A few of his launched social ventures include an international health association of medical schools; two charter schools; school-based health centers; a federally qualified health center; a peer review journal; and multiple community-based college satellite sites.

Nicholas serves as the strategist and lead for international and domestic multiple organizational initiatives bringing them relevancy, accountability, and impact. Currently, he is leading 1) A placed based approach for Health Equity focused on the Social Determinants of Health; 2) the Social Accountability international initiative to move global medical and public health schools to be responsive to people and society’s needs; and 3) Social Innovations movement to recognize and drive investments to legitimate change agents in Greater Philadelphia.

Nicholas serves as the Executive Director of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH) an official non state actor of the World Health Organization (WHO); CEO of Social Innovations Partners that publishes the Social Innovations Journal and oversees the Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey Social Innovations Awards; and Faculty at The Fels Institute of Government and Social Policy School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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