Speakers
| Martha Ainsworth Elizabeth Bradley David Berg Richard Feachem David de Ferranti John Gaddis Robert Glaser Robert Hecht Michel Kazatchkine Paul Kennedy Harlan Krumholz Ariel Pablos-Mendez |
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Martha Ainsworth
Lead Economist & Coordinator for Health and Education Evaluation, Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank
Martha Ainsworth is Lead Economist and the Coordinator for health and education evaluation in the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, where she has worked since 2001. She was the lead author of the recently-released evaluation of World Bank Group support for Health, Nutrition, and Population (Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition, and Population) and managed the 2005 evaluation of Bank support for HIV/AIDS (Committing to Results: Improving the Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Assistance). Prior to that, she conducted research on the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on households, the economic determinants of fertility in Africa, and the potential demand for an AIDS vaccine while in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. She was co-author of the 1997 Policy Research Report, Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic. She managed studies on AIDS economics, health finance, and fertility and family planning in the Africa Technical Department of the Bank in the early 1990s, was on the core team of the 1984 World Development Report on Population and Development, and one of the original developers of the Living Standards Measurement Surveys in the early 1980s. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad in the 1970s. She holds a PhD in economics from Yale University and a Master’s Degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with concentrations in public health, African studies, and development economics.
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Bradley, PhD, is Professor of Public Health and Director of Global Health Initiatives at the School of Public Health, and directs the Health Management Program in the School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health delivery and quality improvement. Dr. Bradley has contributed important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the hospital, nursing home, and hospice settings. Dr. Bradley has several projects regarding health system strengthening in international settings, including Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. She is a member of the World Economic Forum, Network of Global Agenda Councils, and the Steering Committee for the Open Educational Resources in Public Health Conference, aimed at developing innovative ways to enhance health system delivery in global settings. Dr. Bradley has a BA from Harvard, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from Yale University in health economics and health policy.
David Berg
Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Berg, MA, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. From 1977-1992 Dr. Berg was a professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management where he taught courses in organizational behavior, group dynamics, research methods and organizational diagnosis. His current efforts focus on helping physicians develop their understanding of groups and organizations. Dr. Berg strives to maintain connections between the world of ideas and the world of practice. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Paradoxes of Group Life (with Kenwyn Smith), Failures in Organization Development and Change (edited with Philip Mirvis) and Rediscovering Groups (with Marshall Edelson). Dr. Berg received his BA and MA from Yale University and his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan.
Richard Feachem
University of California, San Francisco
Director, Global Health Group
Sir Richard is Professor of Global Health at both the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Global Health Group at UCSF Global Health Sciences. He is also a Visiting Professor at London University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland.
From 2002 to 2007, Sir Richard served as founding Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. During this time, the Global Fund grew from scratch to become the world's largest health financing institution for developing countries, with assets of US $11 billion, supporting 450 programs in 136 countries.
From 1999 to 2002, Sir Richard was the founding Director of the Institute for Global Health at UCSF and UC Berkeley. From 1995 until 1999, Dr. Feachem was Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Previously (1989-1995), he was Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Feachem served as Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Global Forum for Health Research; Treasurer of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas; and on numerous other boards and committees. He was a member of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and the Commission on HIV and Governance in Africa. He has worked in international health and development for 40 years and has published extensively on public health, health policy and development finance.
Professor Feachem holds a Doctor of Science degree in Medicine from the University of London, and a PhD in Environmental Health from the University of New South Wales.
David de Ferranti
Results for Development
President and Director, Health Financing Task Force
Dr. de Ferranti has over 25 years of experience in international development and U.S. domestic policy affairs, with leadership positions in international, government, and policy research organizations. He was the World Bank’s Regional Vice President for Latin American until 2005. Before that, he was responsible for the Bank’s work worldwide in health, education, nutrition, population and other social sectors. Previously, he also held management positions at Rand, the original think tank, and in the U.S. government. He joined Brookings as Distinguished Visiting Fellow in 2005, when he retired from the Bank. Internationally, he has worked on Africa and Asia as well as Latin America, and on issues in economic policy, education, health, nutrition, population, pensions, environmental protection, finance, poverty reduction, tax policy, urban and rural development, transport, and water supply and sanitation.
Dr. de Ferranti holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, with Outstanding Dissertation Award honors, and a Bachelors degree from Yale University, with Phi Beta Kappa and Magna cum Laude honors.
John Gaddis
Yale University
Dr. Gaddis, PhD, is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science and Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy at Yale University, where he teaches Cold War history, grand strategy, and biography. Professor Gaddis has also taught at Ohio University, the United States Naval War College, the University of Helsinki, Princeton University, and Oxford University. His most recent books include The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002), Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004), The Cold War: A New History (2005), and a new edition of Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (2005). Professor Gaddis has received two awards for undergraduate teaching at Yale, and was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Dr. Gaddis received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Glaser
Glaser Progress Fund
Founder and Trustee
Robert Glaser has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of RealNetworks since its inception in February 1994. Mr. Glaser's professional experience also includes ten years of employment with Microsoft Corporation where he focused on the development of new businesses related to the convergence of the computer, consumer electronics and media industries.
At the age of 30, Rob stepped away from his position as Microsoft's Vice President of Multimedia Systems. Though he had been financially supporting social causes, he wanted a more active role. He joined five non-profit boards including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which aims "to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies," and the Foundation for National Progress, publisher of Mother Jones, whose mission is "to educate and empower people through media to work toward progressive change."
Wanting to amplify his impact even more, and determined to use technology to pursue a progressive agenda, Rob founded Progressive Networks in 1993. Two years later Progressive launched RealAudio, a product that delivered streaming audio via the web. Voices that could not penetrate mainstream media could now be heard in real time worldwide over the Internet. RealVideo followed in 1997, augmenting the audio with visual documentary. Now named RealNetworks, it continues to deliver independent and alternative ideas along with a vast array of content.
Rob is also the founder of the Glaser Progress Foundation, through which he supports the implementation of a progressive agenda with a focus on intense activism and constant progress.
Robert Hecht
Results for Development
Managing Director
Dr. Hecht joined Results for Development in April 2008, and is currently managing a growing portfolio of projects analyzing policy barriers and solutions related to AIDS, health financing, and improving R&D and access to new health technologies in developing countries.
Previously, Dr. Hecht spent four years as vice president for Policy and Advocacy at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Prior to his, he had a 20 year tenure at the World Bank, where he occupied a number of senior posts including manager of the Bank’s central unit for Health, Nutrition and Population; chief of operations for the Human Development Network; principal economist in the Latin American Region; and lead author of the 1993 World Development Report, “Investing in Health”. From 1987 to 1996, Dr. Hecht was responsible fro the World Bank sponsored studies and projects in health in Africa and Latin America, most notably in Zimbabwe and Argentina.
Dr. Hecht served as director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) from 1998 to 2001, where he managed technical units based in South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire and Thailand. He led UNAIDS efforts to portray AIDS as a development and poverty issue, impacting a wide range of social and economic goals.
Dr. Hecht received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his doctorate from Cambridge University.
Michel Kazatchkine
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Executive Director
Professor Michel D. Kazatchkine has spent the past 25 years fighting AIDS as a leading physician, researcher, administrator, advocate, policy maker, and diplomat.
His involvement with HIV began in 1983, when, as a young clinical immunologist, he treated a French couple who had returned from Africa with unexplained fever and severe immune deficiency. By 1985, he had started a clinic in Paris specializing in AIDS, which now treats over 1,600 people. Three years later, he opened the first night clinic for people with HIV in Paris, making it possible for them to obtain confidential health care outside working hours.
Dr. Kazatchkine was Professor of Immunology at Université René Descartes and Head of the Immunology Unit of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris. He has authored or co-authored of over 500 articles in peer reviewed journals, focusing on auto-immunity, immuno-intervention and pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS.
In addition to his clinical teaching and research activities, Dr. Kazatchkine has played key roles in various organizations, including Director of the National Agency for Research on AIDS (ANRS) in France (1998-2005), Chair of the World Health Organization’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS (2004-2007), member of the WHO’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on tuberculosis (2004-2007), and French Ambassador on HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases (2005-2007).
Dr. Kazatchkine’s involvement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria began when the organization was initially established. He was the first Chair of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002-2005), and also served as a Board member and Vice-Chair of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2005-2006).
In February, 2007, he was elected Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and took office in Geneva in April, 2007. While recognizing the enormous challenges of tackling HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria globally, Dr. Kazatchkine believes that the progress made in recent years - particularly through programs supported by the Global Fund - presents enormous opportunities: "The mission and mandate of the Global Fund developed seven years ago were visionary and aspirational. In 2008, we are closer than ever to making that vision a reality, and the Fund’s objective of making a sustainable and significant contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals is actually being accomplished. The unprecedented mobilization for the health of the poor in the past few years is producing results – results which can be measured in terms of lives saved."
Dr. Kazatchkine attended medical school at Necker-Enfants-Malades in Paris, studied immunology at the Pasteur Institute, and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at St Mary’s hospital in London and Harvard Medical School.
Paul Kennedy
Yale University
Dr. Kennedy, DPhil is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, and Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy. Dr. Kennedy coordinates the John M. Olin Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military History and Strategy and is responsible for the ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. He is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. He holds many honorary degrees, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 2000 for services to History and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in June 2003. Dr. Kennedy obtained his BA at Newcastle University and his DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Harlan Krumholz
Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Krumholz, MS, MD is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. His research focuses on determining optimal clinical strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement in the care of patients with or at risk for cardiovascular disease. He leads federal initiatives to develop national mortality measures for public reporting of hospital performance. Dr. Krumholz serves as Principal Investigator on two multi-center projects sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute examining: the care and outcomes of young women with acute myocardial infarction, and the effect of a telemonitoring strategy on the outcomes of patients with heart failure. Dr. Krumholz, a member of the Institute of Medicine, received his MD from Harvard Medical School and an SM in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Ariel Pablos-Méndez
The Rockefeller Foundation
Managing Director
Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez is a Managing Director at The Rockefeller Foundation, as well as Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University in New York. Previously, Dr. Pablos-Méndez served as the Director of Knowledge Management & Sharing at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, working to help bridge the know-do gap in public health and advancing the field of e-health. He returned to the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007, where he was a program officer from 1998 to 2004 spearheading a program on public-private partnerships in R&D for diseases of poverty and the Foundation's strategy on AIDS and human resources for health. His current work is addressing the global challenge of health systems. Dr. Pablos-Méndez received his M.D. from the University of Guadalajara’s School of Medicine (Mexico) and his M.P.H from Columbia University’s School of Public Health (New York).
