I work at the intersection of global oncology development, national health system governance, and emerging market expansion.
Current Work
Kind Shark
Kind Shark structures governance-aligned country readiness assessments for oncology programs evaluating emerging market expansion.
Operating within sovereign EMR environments, the platform informs pre-feasibility country scope decisions and clarifies advancement criteria before CRO engagement and operational spend.
Indonesia is the first implementation. The model is designed to be repeatable across markets with national EMR governance structures.
Strategic Advisory
In parallel with her oncology-focused work, Dr. Gu advises philanthropic institutions and mission-driven organizations on capital alignment, institutional strategy, and sovereign health system collaboration.
Her advisory work centers on governance-aware capital deployment and cross-border institutional structuring, reinforcing her broader focus on disciplined, systems-aligned expansion.
Dr. Diane Gu
Dr. Diane Gu is the Founder & CEO of Kind Shark, a governance-embedded country selection strategy platform supporting oncology expansion into emerging markets.
Her work focuses on informing whether and under what structural and governance conditions a market should advance to funded feasibility engagement. By operating within sovereign EMR environments under formal authorization, she helps global development teams reduce premature feasibility activation and strengthen defensibility in internal portfolio and governance discussions.
Dr. Gu’s career spans global health philanthropy, academic research, and sovereign health system collaboration. She has worked alongside national health authorities and philanthropic institutions connected to the Gates Foundation, and has held academic affiliations with the University of Washington and UCLA.
Her approach integrates institutional alignment, structural readiness assessment, and disciplined advancement criteria into decision-ready strategy for emerging market expansion.
Selected Writing
Chinese Dreams? American Dreams?
Dr. Gu is the author of Chinese Dreams? American Dreams? (Springer), an ethnographic study of professional pathways and institutional environments among immigrant scientists and engineers.
The systems-oriented perspective of this work informs her current focus on structural readiness and governance-aligned development strategy.
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