Don Holzworth

Donald A. Holzworth, MS

Entrepreneur in Residence
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Adjunct Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
104 Rosenau Hall
CB# 7415
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7425

About

Don Holzworth serves as the entrepreneur in residence at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health as well as chairman of the School’s Advisory Council. He is also chairman of Couplet Care, Inc a Gillings School spinout which seeks to improve outcomes for mothers and newborns. He is also on the board of trustees for the Southern Environmental Law Center and Walking Mountains Science Center.

He was previously chairman of Health Decisions Inc., a women’s health clinical research organization the company was sold to Premier Research in 2021. He served on the board of Veritas Collaborative, a specialty behavioral hospital system serving patients with severe eating disorders, and on the board of UNC’s Senior Alliance Accountable Care Organization. He also served as executive chairman of a UNC spinout, Bivarus Inc., a patient-centered analytics company sold to Press Ganey in 2018.

Holzworth is the former founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Constella Group, a leading global provider of public health policy and implementation and clinical development services, operating in more than 60 countries. The company was sold to SRA International in 2007. He was also the founder and chairman of Expression Analysis Inc., a genomic services company, which was sold to Quintiles (now IQVIA) in 2012.

In 2007-2008 he served on the Presidential Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and in 2018 he was recipient of Triangle Global Health Champion award.


Holzworth earned a Bachelor of Science in systems analysis and a Master of Science in environmental science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He also has advanced graduate training in biostatistics from North Carolina State University.

Representative Courses

Guest lectures for DrPH Public Health Leadership students

Guest lectures for Social Entrepreneurship class (Alice Ammerman)

Guest lectures on entrepreneurship for UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Service Activities

Serves on health care and health care technology company boards.


Practice Activities

Provides mentorship of emerging entrepreneurs.


Education

  • BS, Systems Analysis, Miami University, 1973
  • MS, Environmental Sciences, Miami University, 1975