Lawrence B. Brilliant, M.D.

Photo by Jonathan Brillilant

LAWRENCE BRENT BRILLIANT, M.D. , is Executive Director of Google.org, the umbrella organization for Google's philanthropic activities, where he works with the company's co-founders — Larry Page and Sergey Brin — to apply innovation and an estimated billion dollars to make a new assault on the largest of the world’s problems.

A physician and epidemiologist, he has been Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan; Medical officer, WHO SEARO smallpox eradication team; Founder, Seva Foundation (which has done 2 million free sight restoring eye operations in India and Nepal). He is the author of two books and dozens of articles on the epidemiology of smallpox, blindness, and environmental diseases; and he has worked at city, county, state, federal and international levels.

As a technologist, Larry Brilliant was the cofounder with Stewart Brand of The Well, an early Internet online community; has served as CEO of two public technology corporations (SoftNet Systems, Inc. and Network Technologies); and has been a Director of several non-profit charities and for profit technology companies.

Dr. Brilliant has recently been written about in publications as diverse as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Yoga Journal and he has appeared on CNN (Paula Zahn), CNBC, MSNBC, and "Power Lunch" within the past year.

Click here for Larry Brilliant's half-hour presentation during the TED Prize session

Linls: "TOTAL EARLY DETECTION; RAPID RESPONSE: Lawrence Brilliant's TED Prize Wish" [2.23.06]

Beyond Edge: Google.org; The TED Prize; Seva Foundation