Meg Murphy

Cofounder, H2A // Harvard University

Meg Murphy, founding advisor, H2A

Meg Murphy works in strategic communications at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is one of the cofounders of Harvard HealthLab Accelerators, known as H2A, which provides young people across Harvard University and in locations across the globe with the resources they need to advance public and planetary health.

Meg is an activist and a writer. She has been involved in social movements since serving as editor of an investigative student newspaper in college. She holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto and a master of science from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She earned a Pulitzer Prize early in her career for breaking news coverage as well as journalism awards for feature writing and investigative reporting. Since then, she has worked in editorial roles in print and broadcast journalism and in media relations in higher education, including various roles at Harvard and MIT.