GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Co - Founder and CEO of Peek Vision
Andrew Bastawrous is Co-Founder and CEO of Peek Vision, a social impact organization which uses smartphone technology to radically increase access to eye care in some of the most challenging places in the world. Andrew is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon), and Professor in Global Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where he teaches on public health for eye health and leads a research portfolio.
Andrew has worked and undertaken research in over twenty countries including two years living in Kenya where he was leading a major eye disease study and the development and testing of Peek. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles focusing on international eye health and mobile technology in healthcare and has co-authored four book chapters.
Andrew was made a TED Fellow in 2014 and his TED talk has been viewed over one million times. Since then, Peek has run one of the top-ten all-time Indiegogo crowd-funding campaigns in the health sector, for Peek Retina, a smartphone ophthalmoscope. As part of Peek's mission to bring vision and health to everyone, Andrew is working with major banks, eye health organizations and funders to develop innovative financing models for eye health, the subject of his 2018 TED Talk.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Consultant Neurologist and Instructor in Neuropsychiatry, Tara Hospital - University of Witwatersrand
Busi Mombaur is a consultant neurologist at Tara Hospital, affiliated with the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her interests include improving access to neurological services in resource-limited regions, as well as narrowing the treatment gap for epilepsy in rural communities in South Africa - especially among adolescents.
Daniel Hodson is a 2014 GHDI graduate and fourth year Peace Corps Volunteer serving in Medina Yoro Foulah, Senegal.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Professor, Department of Population Health and Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health
Dave A. Chokshi was the 43rd Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, one of the leading health agencies in the world. He led the City's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its historic campaign to vaccinate over 6 million New Yorkers, saving tens of thousands of lives. Dr. Chokshi architected treatment strategies, navigated school and economic reopenings, and served as principal public spokesperson. Under his tenure, the Health Department's budget grew to its highest-ever level, reflecting investment in signature initiatives such as the Public Health Corps, Pandemic Response Institute, and New Family Home Visiting program. In 2021, the Department also stewarded the launch of the nation's first publicly-authorized overdose prevention centers-as well as a landmark Board of Health resolution on racism as a public health crisis.
From 2014-2020, Dr. Chokshi served in leadership roles at NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H), including as its inaugural Chief Population Health Officer, where he built an award-winning team dedicated to transforming the largest public health care system in the country. He was also Chief Executive Officer of the H+H Accountable Care Organization (ACO), one of the few ACOs in the nation to achieve high quality and cost performance for eight consecutive years. He has been a practicing primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital since 2014 and is also Clinical Professor of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Previously, Dr. Chokshi served as a White House Fellow at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, where he was the principal health advisor in the Office of the Secretary. His prior work experience spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Dr. Chokshi has written on medicine and public health in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, Health Affairs, Science, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and Scientific American. In 2016, President Obama appointed him to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.
He trained in internal medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, where he received the Dunne Award for Compassionate Care, and was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. During his training, he did clinical work in Guatemala, Peru, Botswana, Ghana, and India. He received his M.D. with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from Penn. He also earned an MSc in global public health as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and graduated summa cum laude from Duke.
Dr. Afsana Safa is a General Practitioner and a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Governing Body member from London, United Kingdom.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Pediatrician
Dr. Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan pediatrician and serves as Minister of Health of Rwanda. After practicing as a pediatrician for over 15 years, Dr. Binagwaho led the National AIDS Control Commission between 2002 and 2008. She then served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health until 2011. Dr. Binagwaho serves on many academic boards academic. Her engagements include research on health equity, HIV/AIDS, information and communication technologies (ICT) in e-health, and pediatric care delivery systems. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, serves on the International Advisory Board of Lancet Global Health, the Editorial Board of PLoS Medicine and of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, and contributed to multiple books. She chairs the Rwanda Pediatric Society, is a member of the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries. Dr. Binagwaho is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She also serves on the International Strategic Advisory Board for the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. Dr. Binagwaho received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Dartmouth College in 2010. In 2014, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Rwanda. She is active in advocacy and political mobilisation on behalf of women and children, in Rwanda and worldwide.
Dr. Priya Kundu is a Psychiatrist and Pagenel Global Mental Health Delivery Fellow with Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda.
Dr. Sandeep Nanwani is a General Physician and part of the department of Bioethics and Medical Amenities at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and a Masters student at Harvard.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Advisory Committee
- Co - Founder and Co - Chairman of the ConsumerMed
- Executive Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Business Development at UMass Medical School
- Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical School / Co - Founder, Co - Chairman, ConsumerMed
Jim Glasheen, PhD, is the executive vice chancellor for innovation and business development at UMass Medical School, a position in which he leads a comprehensive and strategic approach to strengthening the scope and impact of the medical school's biomedical research enterprise, which currently exceeds $250 million in annual external funding; and leveraging the commercialization of the IP portfolio through alliances, collaborations, agreements and partnerships with new and established life sciences partners.
Dr. Glasheen was previously a general partner at Technology Partners, a venture capital fund in California. Companies in which he was an investor and/or board member include Cadence Pharmaceuticals (CADX then acquired by Mallinckrodt), Revance Therapeutics (RVNC), Iomai (IOMI then acquired by Intercell), Incline Therapeutics (acquired by The Medicines Company), Transcend Medical (acquired by Novartis), Vision 5 (acquired by Allergan), Corcept (CORT), and Elcelyx (private).
Glasheen is also the co-founder and co-chairman of the ConsumerMed, a nonprofit organization focused on patient-centered health. Prior to his venture career, he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company and was a leader within their pharmaceuticals and medical products practice.
He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard University, where he earned a PhD in biology. He completed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Director of the World Health Organization 's HIV / AIDS Department
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., became the 12th President of the World Bank Group on July 1, 2012. [Terms of Appointment]
A physician and anthropologist, Dr. Kim has dedicated himself to international development for more than two decades, helping to improve the lives of under-served populations worldwide. Dr. Kim comes to the Bank after serving as President of Dartmouth College, a pre-eminent center of higher education that consistently ranks among the top academic institutions in the United States. Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH) and a former director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization (WHO).
As President of Dartmouth - an institution that comprises a liberal arts college and professional schools of medicine, engineering and business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences, a staff and faculty of 3,300, and a budget of $700 million - Dr. Kim earned praise for reducing a financial deficit without cutting any academic programs. Dr. Kim also founded the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to developing new models of health care delivery and achieving better health outcomes at lower costs.
Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, Dr. Kim held professorships and chaired departments at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. He also served as director of Harvard's François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
In 1987, Dr. Kim co-founded Partners In Health, a Boston-based non-profit organization now working in poor communities on 4 continents. Challenging previous conventional wisdom that drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS could not be treated in developing countries, PIH successfully tackled these diseases by integrating large-scale treatm ent programs into community-based primary care.
As Director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS Department, Dr. Kim led the ‘3 by 5' initiative, the first-ever global goal for AIDS treatment, which sought to treat 3 million new HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries with antiretroviral drugs by 2005. Launched in September 2003, the ambitious program ultimately reached its goal by 2007.
Dr. Kim's work has earned him wide recognition. He was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship (2003), was named one of America's "25 Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report (2005), and was selected as one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" (2006).
Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. Dr. Kim graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director, Global Health Delivery Project
Julie has worked with the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard, since its inception. Over the years, she has contributed to supporting high-value delivery programs and frontline providers in resource-limited settings through multiple channels. Julie has helped research, document, and disseminate what works in health care delivery through more than 45 Harvard Business School-style teaching cases and analytical teaching guides and she has also shared some of those lessons through her support of the Global Health Delivery Intensive summer training program and online communities of practice. She helps lead the Better Evidence work, now done in collaboration with Ariadne Labs, to improve access and uptake of the premier, evidence-based clinical resource for practitioners and has contributed to building analytical frameworks, writing scholarly articles, and executing several research projects commissioned by global health institutes and the World Health Organization. She has helped lead the development of GHD over time to ensure continued value for those it serves. Prior to GHD, Julie worked in clinical research at Emory University School of Medicine and in community-based nonprofit organizations in Latin America and the US. Julie has an MPH in epidemiology and global health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a BA in anthropology, with pre-med coursework and a Spanish language certificate, from Harvard College.
Job Titles:
- Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School / Founder, Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness
- Economist, Researcher
Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy, economic development, the environment, and health care. His extensive research is widely recognized in governments, corporations, NGOs, and academic circles around the globe. His research has received numerous awards, and he is the most cited scholar today in economics and business. While Dr. Porter is, at the core, a scholar, his work has also achieved remarkable acceptance by practitioners across multiple fields.
We are gutted by the loss of our dear teacher and friend Paul Farmer.
Paul gave so much to us, to the world, and to humanity and still had more to teach us. We are inspired by him to believe that health equity is possible; that what we do with our time, our resources, our privilege matters; that being powerful does not preclude being humble; and that it is possible to see suffering and injustice and to continue fighting with compassion, love and solidarity, as well as a sense of humor, for what is right. Paul never stopped questioning or thinking hard about what he heard and saw, looking at the world and asking how he could help the most vulnerable.
Despite being tugged in so many directions, he was a devoted teacher and mentor to so many.
If there is any solace in this loss, through the outpouring of tributes, perhaps the world will learn about Paul-and his vision for what is possible- sooner than it would've otherwise.
Dr. Farmer was the recipient of numerous honors, including the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association's Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and, with his PIH colleagues, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Research Consultant at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy
Rawya Khodor is a Research Consultant at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs in Beirut, Lebanon.
Job Titles:
- Director of Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs
Rebecca Weintraub, MD is the Founding Faculty Director of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Weintraub is a practicing internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and serves as an Advisor for the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
She has led the research and development of Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of over 45 Harvard Business School case studies with Harvard Business Publishing, available online at no cost to the public and taught at over 500 schools of medicine, public health, and business. For a decade Dr. Weintraub led GHDonline.org, a network of virtual communities that connected 25,000+ health professionals from more than 185 countries and 7,000 organizations. Her research on value based health care delivery has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Global Fund, World Health Organization, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Weintraub is also the Director of Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs where she works to enhance access and uptake to the latest evidence at the frontlines of care.
Dr. Weintraub co-founded Jumpstart, the national AmeriCorps program reaching more than 50,000 preschoolers and their communities. She served as a member of the New England Journal of Medicine's Perspectives Advisory Board and as a board member of several nongovernmental organizations. As a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard Business School she has collaborated with Professor Michael Porter to develop new strategies to disseminate valued based health care delivery. In 2014, the World Economic Forum honored Dr. Weintraub as a Young Global Leader. Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Committee
- President, Abundance Foundation / Emergency Medicine Physician, Berkeley, CA
Stephen Kahn believes that emergency medicine provides a lens for fully understanding and supporting what is working in a patient's life and in the life of a community. His belief in the importance of both individual and community health guides his work as president of the Abundance Foundation, which serves as a connective hub to a network of visionaries, innovative projects, and organizations that focus on Health, Empowerment, and Arts and Education.
Dr. Kahn received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He completed his residency in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He has worked in hospitals in Haiti, Bolivia, Costa Rica, and Zambia.
Terence Mark is Medical Officer in charge of the emergency and outpatient department at Kavieng Hospital in Papua New Guinea.