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Commissioners Lawrence H. Summers Charles W. Eliot University Professor Harvard University (Chair) [email protected] Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University, He previously served as Vice President of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Summers was the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He also was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal. Summers holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Dean T. Jamison Professor of Global Health, University of Washington (CoChair) [email protected] Jamison previously held academic appointments at UCSF, Harvard and UCLA and was an economist on the staff of the World Bank where he was lead author of WDR93. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. George Alleyne Director Emeritus Pan American Health Organization [email protected] Knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to medicine, Alleyne served as Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). He was awarded the Order of the Caribbean Community, the highest honor that can be conferred on a Caribbean national. Alleyne is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Kenneth Arrow Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus Stanford University [email protected] Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in economics together with Sir John Hicks, Arrow is well known for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory. Previous academic appointments include positions on the economics faculties of the Universities of Chicago and Harvard. Arrow also received the John Bates Clark Medal. He is a member
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 Commissioners  

 Lawrence  H.  Summers  Charles  W.  Eliot  University  Professor  Harvard  University  (Chair)  [email protected]  Summers  is  President  Emeritus  of  Harvard  University,  He  previously  served  as  Vice  President  of  the  World  Bank,  Undersecretary  of  the  Treasury  for  International  Affairs,  Director  of  the  National  Economic  Council,  and  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States.  Summers  was  the  first  social  scientist  ever  to  receive  the  annual  Alan  T.  Waterman  Award  of  the  National  Science  Foundation  (NSF).  He  also  was  awarded  the  prestigious  John  Bates  Clark  Medal.  Summers  holds  a  Ph.D.  in  economics  from  Harvard.  

Dean  T.  Jamison  Professor  of  Global  Health,  University  of  Washington  (Co-­‐Chair)  [email protected]  Jamison  previously  held  academic  appointments  at  UCSF,  Harvard  and  UCLA  and  was  an  economist  on  the  staff  of  the  World  Bank  where  he  was  lead  author  of  WDR93.    He  holds  a  PhD  in  economics  from  Harvard  University  and  was  elected  to  membership  in  the  Institute  of  Medicine  of  the  U.S.  National  Academy  of  Sciences.    

George  Alleyne  Director  Emeritus  Pan  American  Health  Organization    [email protected]  Knighted  by  Her  Majesty  Queen  Elizabeth  II  for  his  services  to  medicine,  Alleyne  served  as  Director  of  the  Pan  American  Sanitary  Bureau  (PASB),  Regional  Office  of  the  World  Health  Organization  (WHO).    He  was  awarded  the  Order  of  the  Caribbean  Community,  the  highest  honor  that  can  be  conferred  on  a  Caribbean  national.    Alleyne  is  a  member  of  the  Institute  of  Medicine  of  the  U.S.  National  Academy  of  Sciences.    Kenneth  Arrow  Joan  Kenney  Professor  of  Economics  and  Professor  of  Operations  Research,  

Emeritus  Stanford  University  [email protected]  Winner  of  the  1972  Nobel  Prize  in  economics  together  with  Sir  John  Hicks,  Arrow  is  well  known  for  his  pioneering  contributions  to  general  equilibrium  theory  and  welfare  theory.    Previous  academic  appointments  include  positions  on  the  economics  faculties  of  the  Universities  of  Chicago  and  Harvard.    Arrow  also  received  the  John  Bates  Clark  Medal.    He  is  a  member  

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of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences  and  the  Institute  of  Medicine.    Seth  Berkley  Chief  Executive  Officer  GAVI  Alliance  [email protected]  Berkely  previously  served  as  president,  CEO  and  founder  of  the  International  AIDS  Vaccine  Initiative.    Prior  to  founding  IAVI  in  1996,  Berkely  was  Associate  Director  of  the  Health  Sciences  Division  at  the  Rockefeller  Foundation.  Berkely  has  also  worked  with  the  CDC,  with  the  Massachusetts  Department  of  Public  Health  and  for  the  Carter  Center  (based  in  Uganda).  He  holds  a  medical  degree  from  Brown  University.    Agnes  Binagwaho  Minister  of  Health  Ministry  of  Health,  Rwanda  [email protected]  Binagwaho  is  also  currently  a  Senior  Lecturer  in  the  Department  of  Global  Health  and  Social  Medicine  at  Harvard  Medicine  School.  She  previously  served  as  Permanent  Secretary  of  the  Ministry  of  Health  of  Rwanda  and  as  Executive  Secretary  of  Rwanda’s  National  AIDS  Control  Commission.    A  medical  doctor  by  training,  Binagwaho  serves  as  a  member  of  several  boards,  foundations  and  journals  combating  AIDS  and  infant  mortality.      

Flavia  Bustreo  Assistant  Director  General  Family,  Women’s  and  Children’s  Health  World  Health  Organization  [email protected]  Bustreo  previously  served  as  Director  of  the  Partnership  for  Maternal,  Newborn  &  Child  Health.  Prior  to  that  she  held  assignments  with  the  World  Bank,  with  NORAD  and  with  country  and  regional  offices  of  the  WHO,  including  Sudan,  Senegal,  Bangladesh,  WHO’s  regional  office  in  Copenhagen  and  at  WHO  HQ  in  Geneva.    Bustreo  played  a  key  role  in  the  recent  High  Level  Taskforce  on  International  Innovative  Financing  for  Health  Systems  and  in  the  UN  Taskforce  on  Millennium  Development  Goals  4  and  5.    She  holds  a  medical  degree  from  Padua  University  and  a  M.Sc.  in  Communicable  Disease  Epidemiology  from  the  London  School  of  Hygiene  and  Tropical  Medicine.    David  Evans  Director,  Department  of  

Health  Systems  Financing  World  Health  Organization  [email protected]  Evans,  who  holds  a  PhD  in  economics  from  the  Australian  National  University,  previously  served  as  Director  of  WHO’s  Global  Program  on  Evidence  for  Health  Policy.    An  expert  in  the  economics  of  household  decision-­‐making  in  developing  countries,  including  decisions  relating  to  health,  Evans  joined  WHO  in  1990  to  help  

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develop  research  into  social  and  economic  factors  relating  to  tropical  diseases.    Richard  Feachem  Director,  Global  Health  Group,  Global  

Health  Sciences,  and  Professor  of  Global  Health,    

University  of  California,  San  Francisco  and  University  of  California,  Berkeley  [email protected]  

Currently  also  a  Visiting  Professor  at  London  University  and  an  Honorary  Professor  at  the  University  of  Queensland,  Feachem  previously  served  as  founding  Executive  Director  of  the  Global  Fund  to  Fight  AIDS,  Tuberculosis  and  Malaria  and  Under  Secretary  General  of  the  United  Nations.    Additional  posts  include:  Director  for  Health,  Nutrition  and  Population  at  the  World  Bank  and  Dean  of  the  London  School  of  Hygiene  and  Tropical  Medicine.    A  member  of  the  Institute  of  Medicine  of  the  U.S.  National  Academy  of  Sciences,  Feachem  was  knighted  by  Her  Majesty  Queen  Elizabeth  II  for  services  to  health  and  development.  Julio  Frenk  Dean  of  the  Faculty  at  the  Harvard  School  

of  Public  Health  and    T&G  Angelopoulos  Professor  of  Public  

Health  and  International  Development,  a  joint  appointment  

with  the  Harvard  John  F.  Kennedy  School  of  Government  

[email protected]  Frenk  previously  served  as  Minister  of  Health  of  Mexico.    He  also  was  the  founding  director-­‐general  of  the  National  Institute  of  Public  Health  in  Mexico.    Additional  previous  positions  held  by  Frenk  include:  director  of  the  Center  for  Health  and  the  Economy  at  the  Mexican  Health  Foundation,  executive  director  in  charge  of  Evidence  and  Information  for  Policy  at  the  WHO,  Senior  Fellow  in  the  global  health  program  of  the  Bill  &  Melinda  Gates  Foundation,  and  Executive  President  of  the  Carso  Health  Institute  in  Mexico  City.    A  member  of  the  Institute  of  Medicine  of  the  U.S.  National  Academy  of  Sciences  and  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  Frenk  holds  a  medical  degree  from  the  National  University  of  Mexico  and  a  joint  PhD  in  medical  care  organization  and  in  sociology  from  the  University  of  Michigan.    Gargee  Ghosh  Director,  Policy  Analysis  and  Financing  Global  Policy  &  Advocacy  Bill  &  Melinda  Gates  Foundation  [email protected]  Ghosh  previously  held  positions  at  Google,  at  McKinsey  &  Company  (where  she  served  as  a  Senior  Expert  in  the  Social  Sector  Office)  and  at  the  Center  for  Global  Development.    Involved  in  the  early  days  of  the  BMGF’s  work  in  policy  and  innovative  

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finance,  Ghosh  holds  Master’s  degrees  in  Economics  for  Development  from  the  University  of  Oxford  and  in  International  Relations  from  Georgetown.        Sue  Goldie  Roger  Irving  Lee  Professor  of  Public  

Health,  Director  of  the  Center  for  Health  Decision  Science,    

Harvard  School  of  Public  Health,    Faculty  Director,  Harvard  Global  Health  

Institute,    Harvard  University  and    Professor  of  Global  Health  and  Social  

Medicine,    Harvard  Medical  School    [email protected]  A  physician,  decision  scientist  and  public  health  researcher,  Goldie  has  been  PI  on  awards  from  the  NIH,  CDC,  BMGF,  Doris  Duke  Foundation  and  MacArthur  Foundation.    She  has  served  on  the  Board  on  Global  Health  for  the  Institute  of  Medicine  and  several  technical  advisory  boards  for  the  WHO.    Goldie  qualified  in  medicine  from  Yale  and  earned  her  MPH  from  the  Harvard  School  of  Public  Health.    Yan  Guo  Professor  of  Public  Health  

and  Vice  President    Peking  University  Health  Science  Center  [email protected]  Yan  also  is  Vice  Director  of  the  China  Academy  of  Health  Policy  and  Board  

Member  of  the  Community  Health  Branch  of  the  Chinese  Hospital  Management  Association.    She  has  served  as  a  consultant  for  a  range  of  internationally  sponsored  projects  carried  out  in  China  such  as  DFID’s  China  Urban  Health  and  Poverty  Project,  the  World  Bank-­‐sponsored  Final  Assessment  of  TB  Control  project  and  the  UNICEF-­‐funded  Comprehensive  Primary  Health  Care  Project.    Sanjeev  Gupta  Deputy  Director    Fiscal  Affairs  Department  International  Monetary  Fund  [email protected]  Previous  positions  held  by  Gupta  include:  Senior  Advisor  in  the  IMF  Fiscal  Affairs  Department,  Assistant  Director  in  the  African  Department,  Assistant  Director  and  Chief  in  the  Expenditure  Policy  Division  of  the  Fiscal  Affairs  Department  and  Economist  in  the  European  Department.    Gupta  has  led  IMF  missions  in  some  25  countries  in  Africa,  Asia,  Europe  and  the  Middle  East.  He  was  previously  a  Secretary  of  the  Federation  of  Indian  Chambers  of  Commerce  and  Industry,  New  Delhi,    Senior  Faculty  at  the  Administrative  Staff  College  of  India,  Hyderabad,  and  Fellow,  Kiel  Institute  of  World  Economics,  Germany.    Richard  Horton  Editor-­‐in-­‐Chief  The  Lancet  

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[email protected]  Horton  was  the  first  President  of  the  World  Association  of  Medical  Editors  and  is  a  Past-­‐President  of  the  US  Council  of  Science  Editors.  He  is  an  honorary  professor  at  the  London  School  of  Hygiene  and  Tropical  Medicine,  University  College  London,  and  the  University  of  Edinburgh.  He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians  and  a  Founder  Fellow  of  the  UK's  Academy  of  Medical  Sciences.    He  currently  chairs  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians'  Working  Party  on  Physicians  and  the  Pharmaceutical  Industry;  co-­‐chairs  a  WHO  Scientific  Advisory  Group  on  Clinical  Trials  Registration;  is  a  Council  Member  of  the  Global  Forum  for  Health  Research;  is  a  Board  Member  of  the  Health  Metrics  Network;  sits  on  the  External  Reference  Group  for  WHO's  Research  Strategy;  and  is  an  External  Advisory  Board  Member  for  the  WHO  European  Region.    Horton  is  also  a  Senior  Associate  of  The  Nuffield  Trust,  a  think  tank  for  research  and  policy  studies  in  health  services.    Margaret  Kruk  Assistant  Professor  of  Health  Policy  

and  Management  Columbia  University  [email protected]  Kruk  is  a  physician  and  health  systems  researcher  at  Columbia  University’s  Mailman  School  of  Public  Health.    She  

studies  health  care  utilization,  population  decision-­‐making,  and  methods  to  evaluate  health  system  performance  in  sub-­‐Saharan  Africa.  She  was  previously  policy  advisor  for  Health  at  the  United  Nations  Millennium  Project  where  she  assisted  national  governments  with  health  system  scale-­‐up  to  reach  the  Millennium  Development  Goals.    Adel  Mahmoud  Professor  in  Molecular  Biology  and  Public  Policy  at  Princeton  University  [email protected]  Recently  retired  as  President  of  Merck  Vaccines  and  member  of  Management  Committee  of  Merck  &  Company  Inc,  Mahmoud  has  also  held  academic  posts  at  Case  Western  Reserve  University  and  University  Hospitals  of  Cleveland  spanning  25  years  concluding  as  Chairman  of  Medicine  and  Physician-­‐in-­‐Chief.    Mahmoud  holds  an  MD  degree  from  the  University  of  Cairo  and  a  PhD  from  the  University  of  London,  School  of  Hygiene  and  Tropical  Medicine.    He  is  a  member  of  numerous  prestigious  associations  and  societies  including  the  Institute  of  Medicine  of  the  National  Academy  of  Science.  He  has  received  both  the  Bailey  K.  Ashford  Award  of  the  American  Society  of  Tropical  Medicine  and  Hygiene  and  the  Squibb  Award  of  the  Infectious  Disease  Society  of  America.  Dr.  Mahmoud  currently  serves  as  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  the  International  Vaccine  Institute  in  Seoul,  South  Korea  and  

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as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  the  International  AIDS  Vaccine  Initiative  as  well  as  several  public  and  not  for  profit  corporations.      Linah  K.  Mohohlo  Governor  Bank  of  Botswana  [email protected]  Linah  was  appointed  Governor  of  the  Bank  of  Botswana  in  1999  following  a  23-­‐year  career  in  the  Bank.    She  has  also  worked  for  the  IMF  and,  in  her  capacity  as  Governor  of  the  IMF  for  Botswana,  she  has  been  a  member  of  the  International  Monetary  and  Financial  Committee,  representing  the  Africa  Group  1  Constituency.  Among  her  international  engagements,  Mohohlo  served  as  a  member  of  Tony  Blair’s  Commission  for  Africa,  and  currently  enjoys  membership  of  the  Africa  Progress  Panel,  Investment  Committee  of  the  UN  Joint  Staff  Pension  Fund,  Investment  Climate  Facility  for  Africa  and  Alliance  for  a  Green  Revolution  in  Africa.  Mrs.  Mohohlo  is  a  recipient  of  several  Central  Bank  Governor  of  the  Year  Awards.    She  has  been  honored  with  the  Presidential  Order  of  Honour  in  recognition  of  efficient  and  devoted  service  to  Botswana,  and  The  Official  Monetary  and  Financial  Institutions  Forum  recognized  her  with  the  Lifetime  Achievement  Award  in  2011.    She  read  Accounting  and  Business,  Economics,  Finance  and  Investments  at  the  University  of  Botswana,  The  George  Washington  University  and  University  of  Exeter,  and  has  undertaken  the  

Executive  Management  study  program  at  Yale  University.  Ariel  Pablos-­‐Mendez  Assistant  Administrator  for  Global  Health  United  States  Agency  for  International  

Development    [email protected]  

Pablos-­‐Méndez  recently  served  as  Professor  of  Clinical  Medicine  and  Epidemiology  at  Columbia  University,  and  as  Managing  Director  at  the  Rockefeller  Foundation  where  he  led  its  global  strategy  on  the  transformation  of  health  systems  towards  Universal  Health  Coverage  and  Public-­‐Private  Partnerships  for  technologies  against  diseases  of  poverty.  He  was  previously  Director  of  Knowledge  Management  at  the  World  Health  Organization  (WHO)  in  Geneva.  Pablos-­‐Méndez  received  his  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Guadalajara's  School  of  Medicine  and  his  M.P.H.  from  Columbia  University.  

Mthuli  Ncube  Chief  Economist  and  Vice-­‐President  African  Development  Bank  [email protected]  Ncube  holds  a  PhD  in  Mathematical  Finance  from  Cambridge  University.    Before  joining  the  AfDB,  he  held  the  post  of  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  Commerce,  Law  and  

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Management  at  the  University  of  the  Witwatersrand  (Wits),  Johannesburg,  South  Africa,  and  before  that  was  Dean  and  Professor  of  Finance  at  Wits  Business  School.    He  has  extensive  experience  as  an  investment  banker  and  as  a  regulator;  he  served  as  a  Board  member  of  the  South  African  Financial  Services  Board  (FSB).    Ncube  is  also  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  the  African  Economic  Research  Consortium,  Chairman  of  the  Global  Agenda  Council  on  “Poverty  and  Economic  Development”  (World  Economic  Forum)  and  a  Governor  of  the  African  Capacity  Building  Foundation.  

Helen  Saxenian  Senior  Consultant  Results  for  Development  [email protected]  Saxenian  is  the  Project  Coordinator  for  the  Review  of  GAVI  Alliance  Eligibility  Policies  project.    Previously  she  worked  at  the  World  Bank  for  eighteen  years  and  was  involved  in  the  development  of  WDR93.    Saxenian  holds  a  PhD  in  applied  economics  from  Stanford  and  a  B.A.  in  economics  from  U.C.  Berkeley.    Karen  Helene  Ulltveit-­‐Moe  Professor  of  International  Economics,  University  of  Oslo  and    Research  Fellow,  Centre  for  Economic  

Policy  Research  (CEPR)  k.h.ulltveit-­‐[email protected]  Ulltveit-­‐Moe  holds  a  PhD  in  economics  from  the  Norwegian  School  of  Economics  and  

Business  Administration  (NHH).    Previously  she  worked  as  Research  Director  of  the  Centre  for  International  Economics  and  Shipping  at  NHH  in  Bergen.    Ullveit-­‐Moe  has  worked  as  a  consultant  for  the  European  Commission  and  the  Norwegian  Ministry  of  Trade  and  Industry.    She  has  also  served  as  member  of  government-­‐appointed  public  commissions  and  as  member  of  the  Board  of  directors  of  Norwegian  multinational  corporations.    CIH  Secretariat    Gavin  Yamey  (CIH  Medical  Advisor)  Lead,  Evidence-­‐to-­‐Policy  Initiative  Global  Health  Group  University  of  California,  San  Francisco  [email protected] Yamey  previously  was  Deputy  Editor  of  the  Western  Journal  of  Medicine,  Assistant  Editor  of  the  BMJ,  founding  Senior  Editor  of  PLoS  Medicine.  Awarded  a  Kaiser  Mini-­‐Media  Fellowship  in  Global  Health  Reporting,  Yamey  developed  a  series  on  Sudan,  Uganda  and  Kenya  that  was  discussed  in  the  UK  Parliament.    He  has  been  external  advisor  to  the  World  Health  Organization  and  to  TDR,  the  Special  Program  for  Research  and  Training  in  Tropical  Diseases.    Yamey  holds  a  medical  degree  from  Oxford  University  and  University  College  London      

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Alexandra  (Alix)  Beith  (CIH  Secretary)  Senior  Policy  Associate  Center  for  Disease  Dynamics,  Economics  &  Policy  (CDDEP)  [email protected]  Beith  previously  worked  with  Broad  Branch  Associates,  the  Center  for  Global  Development,  Management  Sciences  for  Health  and  HLSP/UK  and  HLSP/Spain.      She  holds  a  Masters  Degree  in  Health  Policy,  Planning  and  Financing  from  the  London  School  of  Economics  and  the  London  School  of  Hygiene  and  Tropical  Medicine.