Today, enjoying a temporary lull in work on specific grants or investments, I turned my attention to working on process improvement projects. I volunteered to work with the Foundation's Diagnostics team to adapt the processes and documentation that we use to guide development of drugs and vaccines to be appropriate for Diagnostics development. We are making very good progress in mapping one to the other and I am learning a lot along the way, which was my motivation in volunteering.
In the afternoon the pneumonia portfolio was reviewed by the Foundation President of Global Health. I was delighted when he reinforced my role as a co-leader together with the Program Officers of team meetings. The Portfolio and Platform Lead role is relatively new and it is very helpful to have the President himself reinforcing the breadth of my involvement and specifying the areas for which I'm responsible.
By the end of the day, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and I couldn't resist taking a long walk to enjoy the clear evening. I started at Lake Union and climbed the Galer steps all the way to the top of Queen Anne Hill. What a great work-out! The views were gorgeous - I saw a float plane landing on Lake Union and from higher up, Mount Rainier was visible, peeking between the skyscrapers of downtown like a primeval monolithic Godzilla.
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