Drea Burbank MD
Drea Burbank MD
Drea Burbank is CEO @ Savimbo. MD-technologist, pacifist, and delinquent savant. Putumayo, Colombia
Drea is a pacifist. Her work is focused on integration during an era of extreme technological and environmental change. As an MD-technologist and serial entrepreneur, she applies high-tech from hard-science in critical sectors. She leads a team of 300+ delinquent savants who specialize in solving hard scientific and social problems using emerging technologies. Her latest project is Savimbo which sells fair-trade climate credits direct from smal lfarmers and Indigenous groups in tropical forests.
Prior work includes agroforestry, biodiversity credits, carbon sequestration, Web3 (DeFi, crypto, smart-contracts, GameFi, SocialFi, and digital ledgers), wearables, film production, newspace, behavior design, civ-tech and smart cities, AI and ML, cybersecurity, near-infrared spectroscopy, fMRI, stem cells and tissue-engineering, 3D printing, VR, specialist networks, nanotech, voice-recognition software, microbiome, web/app product design, business and startup strategy, social enterprise, popular-science writing, scientific PR and niche marketing. In global health, I develop high-tech for low-resource environments.
In her werk she use emerging technologies to promote population health. He work is apolitical and industry-agnostic to this aim and passionate about reducing barriers to innovation at the intersection of research, technology, and science.
She recruits and trains high-IQ individuals with non-traditional backgrounds working with government, law, medicine, computer science, business, finance, creatives, Indigenous Peoples, and academics around the world.
To quote Karen Kilroy "I can't help but wonder how much further technology could go if we solved things for people who had the biggest problems first — and then made games."