Julien Pham, MD, MPH is a physician, entrepreneur, investor, and educator working at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences, emerging technology, and innovation.
He is Founder and Managing Partner of 3CC | Third Culture Capital, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage health technology and AI-enabled life sciences companies. His career has spanned clinical medicine, academic research, entrepreneurship, executive leadership, company creation, and venture investing, providing a broad perspective on how scientific and technological innovation moves from discovery to commercialization and scale.
Julien serves as Senior Advisor for Healthcare and Life Sciences at the Harvard Innovation Labs, where he advises founders, teaches entrepreneurship, and helps strengthen connections across Harvard's schools, research community, and affiliated hospitals to advance healthcare and life sciences innovation. Beginning in 2027, he will also teach through Harvard Medical School Executive Education, helping clinicians and scientists develop skills in innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
Earlier in his career, Julien served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, practiced nephrology within Mass General Brigham, founded and led healthcare companies, and helped take a biotechnology company public as its President and Chief Operating Officer. His expertise includes healthcare strategy, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, innovation commercialization, venture investing, and healthcare transformation.
Julien received his MD from the University of Washington School of Medicine and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.