Charlene Brown
Dr. Charlene Brown is CEO of Caregiver Jobs Now. Charlene served as a public health physician expert for USAID where she supported more than 17 developing countries and led a federal, interagency working group on HIV testing services. She also served as deputy commissioner for a local health department, protected our drug supply as a FDA regulatory physician, founded a health consulting company, and participated in multiple non-profit advisory boards. After graduating from Princeton, Charlene completed medical school, public health school and internal medicine training at Harvard. She further specialized and became Board-certified in preventive medicine at Emory, where she serves as an adjunct professor. Recognizing that unmet needs in home care affect the health and safety of elderly and disabled persons, Charlene pitched Caregiver Jobs Now at Startup Weekend DC, won first place with her team, and is building the company as a natural extension of her preventive medicine career.