Our distinguished External Advisory Board members include internationally recognized experts from a wide variety of disciplines, fields, organizations and countries — both within and beyond health sciences. The members include two former ministers of health, a former FDA Commissioner, and thought leaders in many of the issues that are front and center in global health today.
Ala Alwan, MBChB
Visiting Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington
Arun Chockalingam, MS, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Professor, Epidemiology and Global Health
Director, Office of Global Public Health Education and Training
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Canada
Jacqueline Darroch, PhD
Senior Fellow, Guttmacher Institute
Christopher Elias, MD, MPH
President, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
David Fleming, MD
Vice President of Public Health, PATH
Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor, Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru
Peru
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, MD
Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine
Denis Hayes, JD
President and CEO, The Bullitt Foundation
Lee Huntsman, PhD
President Emeritus, University of Washington
Ruth Nduati, MBChB, MPH
Professor of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, Department of Padediatrics, University of Nairobi
Kenya
Guy Palmer, DVM, PhD
Creighton Chair and Senior Director of Global Health
Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases
Washington State University
Vikram Patel, FMedSci
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Joint Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India
Peter Piot, MD, PhD, FRCP, FMedSci
Director and Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
United Kingdom
Brooks Simpson
President, Pacific Rim Medical Systems
Bruder Stapleton, MD
Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs, Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington