David Gollaher

Subsequently, in early 2019, he was appointed Senor Vice President of global policy and government affairs at Vir Biotechnology, an emerging growth biotech company focused on infectious diseases.

Previously, in 2018, he was named Senior Fellow at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California.

Gollaher's biographical study, Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix received the Organization of American Historians' 1996 Avery O. Craven Award.

[1] In 1993, after several years as a member of the executive team at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, Gollaher organized California biotechnology industry leaders to found CHI, a public policy research and advocacy organization that grew to represent more than 370 California academic institutions, biopharmaceutical companies, medical technology and professional firms.

In 2014, his leadership and contributions to human health research and development were formally acknowledged in the Congressional Record by Representative Anna Eshoo (D - Palo Alto).