External Advisory Board Members

Our distinguished External Advisory Board members come from a wide variety of disciplines and fields of expertise -- not only health sciences but also law, engineering, climate change, information management, and veterinary medicine.

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Associate Professor, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu Natal
Republic of South Africa

William Foege
Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Robert Black
Chair, International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Christopher Elias
President & CEO, PATH

David Fleming
Director, Public Health Seattle and King County

Patricia Garcia
Professor, School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Peru

Helene Gayle
President & CEO, CARE

Lawrence Gostin
Associate Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Denis Hayes
President & CEO, The Bullitt Foundation

Julie Nordstrom
Board Member, UW Medicine

Guy Palmer
Director, Washington State University School of Global Animal Health

Peter Piot
Director, Imperial College Institute for Global Health
England

Frank Plummer
Professor, Medicine & Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Scientific Director General, National Microbiology Laboratory
Canada

Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University

Brooks Simpson
President, Pacific Rim Medical Systems
Board Member, Washington Research Foundation

Mark Smolinski
Global Public Health Threat Detective, Google, Inc.

Bruder Stapleton
Senior Vice President & Chief Academic Officer, Seattle Children’s

Derek Yach
Director, Global Health Policy, PepsiCo.