CovidX seeks to identify opportunities for the government, private sector, and nonprofits to accelerate meaningful innovation and build a more resilient future. We are articulating problems and championing new ways of solving them with equity and inclusion in mind.

CovidX is a Luminary Labs initiative made possible by funding from Schmidt Futures. 

Luminary Labs is a strategy and innovation consultancy based in New York. We are focused on the thorny problems that matter and finding new ways to solve them on behalf of Fortune 500, nonprofit, and government clients. We’re applying our expertise in open innovation, health, education, the future of work, and the advancement of science to CovidX.

We are honored to work closely with the following frontline medical professionals.

• Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is a practicing emergency physician and researcher, focusing on the intersection between digital health, violence prevention, and public health. She is the Director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation (EDHI) program. She is also a founding partner of GetUsPPE.org, dedicated to matching donors to health systems in need of protective equipment.
• John Brownstein, Ph.D., is the Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He directs the Computational Epidemiology Lab at the Children’s Hospital Boston. He was trained as an epidemiologist at Yale University.
• Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, is an emergency doctor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in the Emergency Department Division of Health Policy and Public Health. He is also editor-in-chief for the American College of Emergency Physicians’ national magazine ACEP Now; FOAMcast, an emergency medicine podcast; and Brief19, a daily roundup of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research and policy. 
• Ranu Dhillon, MD, is a physician at the Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He served as Special Advisor to the President of Guinea for Ebola and subsequently worked on strategies to contain outbreaks of Zika in the United States and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Ruth Ann Crystal, MD, is a board-certified, Stanford-trained Ob/Gyn physician entrepreneur with interests in healthcare innovation and human centered design. She has been a clinical instructor at Healthcare Design classes at the Stanford d.school every since 2013. She is also the editor and founder of the Coronavirus Tech Handbook, Resources for Doctors.

CovidX is made possible through funding from Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. As a venture facility for public benefit, Schmidt Futures helps people do more for others by imagining what’s possible, applying advanced science and computing thoughtfully, and working together in networks across fields.