Michael Rush

 

 

Michael Rush is the Executive Director of Global Health Policy for Temptime Corporation, responsible for developing domestic and international policies that incorporate time-temperature indicators for the purpose of improving patient health, enhancing product integrity, and reducing temperature-sensitive product wastage.

Mike works in collaboration with government officials, agency leaders, global health policymakers, and non-governmental organizations such as the WHO, UNICEF, GAVI, PATH, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prior to joining Temptime, Mike worked for 13 years at Merck Vaccines, taking on roles of increasing responsibility for all facets of vaccine public sector access, funding, and policy in the Americas, collaborating with such organizations as the CDC, HHS, PAHO, and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Mike has lived in São Paulo, Brazil, where he was the Latin America Regional Director for Vaccine Policy.

He received a BA in Industrial Psychology from Weber State University, a MBA in International Business Administration from Northwest Nazarene University, and speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently.