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.

