Michael K. Hole

Michael Hole is a pediatrician and social entrepreneur developing products, services, and policies to reduce US child poverty. He is joint faculty at Dell Medical School and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where he is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Population Health and Faculty Fellow in the Center for Health & Social Policy. 

Dr. Hole started his career in social services focused on child trafficking before founding two international development campaigns: Power of Children, which started a school for 350 students in post-conflict Uganda, and Be Haiti, which co-funded (a) a new food treating 50,000 malnourished youth yearly and (b) an orphanage for disabled children abandoned during Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. Dr. Hole now co-leads StreetCred, a nonprofit at the intersection of government and health systems helping low-income families file taxes, build assets and apply for basic resources in pediatricians’ waiting rooms. He has published or presented on issues like entitlement spending, social impact bonds, food insecurity, childhood homelessness, youth gang violence and public-private partnerships reducing infant mortality. 

Dr. Hole was top student at Butler University before earning his MD and MBA from Stanford University with concentrations in public management, community health and social innovation. He completed pediatrics residency at Harvard before joining The University of Texas at Austin.