Paul Freeman DR PH (Hopkins), MBBS, MHP (ED) MPH (TH) is an independent consultant affiliated with the DGH MPH program. He has over 45 years of experience in the design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health programs and projects especially in primary health care, child survival and malaria control in 14 developing countries and for indigenous communities in developing countries. He has designed and implemented human capacity building from national and University to community levels. His management experience includes Team Leader of the large Vietnam Australia Malaria Control project based in Hanoi in 1995 and 1996. He was Chair of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association in 2012 and 2013. He is Co-director and one of the authors of the Comprehensive Review of the Evidence Regarding the Effectiveness of Community-based Primary Health Care in Improving Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health published in the Journal of Global Health. Volume 7, issue 1. 2017.

He is currently focusing on promoting his book, Comprehensive Review of the Evidence Regarding the Effectiveness of Community-based Primary Health Care in the UK, Australia, South Pacific, and Africa through a further book, paper in process and presentations at major Conferences also focusing on sustainability of health workers and organizations in association with government health services. Also currently mentoring students-two formally per APHA-and many others from the US and Australia. Reviewer for several journals and organizations-Sage Open Journal, Gates Open Research, Taskforce for Global Health. Assistant Editor, Biomedical Journal Public Health Journal. Global health research for Medical Research Council (UK).