International Health

Jonathon L. Simon
Chair and Robert Knox Professor. Director, Center for Global Health & Development.
DSc, Harvard University; MPH, University of California, Berkeley.
Areas of interest: infectious disease epidemiology, international health and development.

Frank G. Feeley
Associate Chair and Associate Professor.
JD, Yale University.
Areas of interest: regulation and financing of private health care, impact of HIV and AIDS on business and the business response to the disease, health care systems in the former Soviet Union.

Full Time

Jennifer Beard
Assistant Professor.
PhD, University of New Hampshire; MPH, Boston University; MA, Ohio University.
Areas of interest: public health writing; education policies in the public school sector, in South Africa in particular; and orphans and vulnerable children.

Godfrey Biemba
Research Assistant Professor.
MSc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; MB BCh, University of Zambia.
Areas of interest: HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support, with special focus on research in the care and support of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC); malaria research, with special focus on design and conduct of clinical trials; research management; research ethics; health systems development.

Malcolm Bryant
Clinical Associate Professor.
MPH, Harvard University; MBBS, London Hospital Medical College.
Areas of interest: orphans and vulnerable children, health systems strengthening, organizational capacity-building, reproductive health, quality assurance and improvement, and monitoring and evaluation.

Christopher Gill
Associate Professor.
MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School; MS, Tufts University.
Areas of interest: child survival, and include diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, pneumococcal and meningococcal disease, adherence to HIV medications, and neonatal survival.

Nafisa Halim
Research Assistant Professor.
PhD, MA, University of New Mexico.
Areas of interest: international development, health, education, and gender.

Davidson H. Hamer
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, University of Vermont.
Areas of interest: malaria (epidemiology, case management, prevention and control, malaria and pregnancy), micronutrient interventions for the treatment and prevention of childhood infectious diseases, adherence to HIV therapy, neonatal survival, antimicrobial resistance, and improving the health of the aging population through nutritional interventions. Clinical interests include travel medicine, tropical medicine, and HIV and AIDS.

Julie Herlihy
Assistant Professor.
MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School; MPH, Harvard School of Public Health.
Areas of interest: international child survival, neonatal survival, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, community case management, health systems strengthening.

Bruce Larson
Associate Professor.
PhD, MA, University of Wisconsin.
Areas of interest: economics, evaluation of interventions, HIV and AIDS, malaria, poverty alleviation.

William B. Macleod
Assistant Professor.
ScD, SM, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: demographic methods, infant and child health, primary health care, and infectious disease epidemiology.

Deborah Maine
Professor.
DrPH, Columbia University.
Areas of interest: reproductive health, evidence base for reproductive health programs, monitoring and evaluation of field programs, application of epidemiologic methods.

Lisa Messersmith
Associate Professor.
PhD, University of California; MPH, Johns Hopkins University.
Areas of interest: HIV and AIDS, gender, sexuality, human rights, vulnerability, inequity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, medical anthropology.

Gesine Meyer-Rath
Research Assistant Professor.
PhD, MD, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Areas of interest: economic evaluation, mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, and operational research, all applied to HIV, antiretroviral treatment, and other HIV-related interventions.

Candace Miller
Assistant Professor.
ScD, Harvard University; MHS, Johns Hopkins University.
Areas of interest: global health, monitoring and evaluation, poverty, social protection policies, children and HIV and AIDS, statistical methodology, and policy analysis.

Lawrence Mwananyanda
Research Assistant Professor.
MD, Jaigellonian University; MPH, University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Areas of interest: HIV and AIDS prevention, HIV vaccines clinical trials, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), malaria prevention and treatment, pneumonia etiology in children.

Monica Onyango
Clinical Assistant Professor.
PhD, MPH, Boston University; RN, Registered Nurse Midwifery, Kenya Medical Training College.
Areas of interest: reproductive health, maternal and child health, and health care in disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies.

Sydney Rosen
Research Associate Professor.
MPA, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: international development, HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, and health economics.

Lora L. Sabin
Associate Professor.
PhD, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: international health and development; the impact of HIV and AIDS on children, households, and community; interventions to manage the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and economic development in East Asia and Africa.

Nancy Scott
Instructor.
MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment; global health programming and evaluation; policy analysis.

Katherine Semrau
Assistant Professor.
PhD, Boston University; MPH, University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Areas of interest: infectious diseases, HIV and AIDS, antiretroviral therapy rollout, maternal and child health and development in developing countries.

Donald M. Thea
Professor.
MD, Columbia University; MSc, University of London.
Areas of interest: HIV transmission through breast milk, improving treatment algorithm for acute respiratory infections in children, economic and social impact of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, and use of information technology to improve health care delivery in resource-poor areas.

Taryn Vian
Associate Professor.
PhD, Boston University; SM, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: international health management and finance, corruption in the health sector, program design and evaluation.

Veronika Wirtz
Research Associate.
PhD, MSc, University of London, School of Pharmacy.
Areas of interest: pharmaceutical policy, quality of care, health systems research in low- and middle-income countries.

James A. Wolff
Associate Professor.
MD, Columbia University; BMS, Dartmouth Medical School; MAT, MPH, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: maternal and child health, emergency medicine, project management, information and communication technologies.

Kojo Yeboah-Antwi
Assistant Professor.
MBChB, University of Ghana Medical School; MPH, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam.
Areas of interest: evidence for community-based interventions, malaria, monitoring and evaluation of field programs, and maternal and child health.

Part Time

Ayorinde A. Ajayi
Adjunct Associate Professor. Vice President of Field Programs, PATH, Seattle.
MB, BS, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; MPH, Boston University.

Mary A. Bachman DeSilva
Assistant Professor.
DSc, MSc, Harvard University; MSFS, Georgetown University.

Zulfqar Bhutta
Adjunct Professor.
PhD, Karolinska University; MBBS, University of Peshawar.

David Collins
Adjunct Associate Professor.
MA, East Anglia University, England; FCA, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Greg Connolly
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director, Tobacco Control Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
DMD, Tufts University; MPH, Harvard University.

Kirk Dearden
Associate Professor.
DrPH, MPH, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Susan Foster
Professor.
PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; MA, Ohio University.

H. Kristian Heggenhougen
Adjunct Professor.
PhD, MA, New School for Social Research.

Warren Kaplan
Clinical Assistant Professor.
PhD, MPH, Boston University; JD, Suffolk University; MS, Texas A&M University.

Richard O. Laing
Adjunct Professor. Medical Officer, Policy, Access and Rational Use, Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, World Health Organization.
MBChB, MD, University of Zimbabwe; MSc, University of London.

Joel H. Lamstein
Adjunct Associate Professor. President, John Snow, Inc. President, World Education Inc.
SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

F. James Levinson
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor.
PhD, Cornell University.

Elizabeth Lewis
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Senior Associate, Health Reform and Financing Unit, Center for Health Systems and Services, Management Sciences for Health.
MBA, Bentley College.

Luigi Migliorini
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Chief of Mission, Federation of Yugoslavia Office, WHO.
MD, University of Siena; MPH, Boston University.

Michael Montagne
Adjunct Professor. Professor, School of Pharmacy-Boston, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
PhD, MA, University of Minnesota.

Ashok K. Patwari
Adjunct Research Professor.
MD, DcH, University of Delhi; MBBS, Punjabi University.

Jonathan D. Quick
Adjunct Associate Professor. Director, Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, WHO, Geneva.
MD, MPH, University of Rochester.

Dennis Ross-Degnan
Adjunct Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School.
ScD, Harvard University.

Ian Sanne
Adjunct Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand.
MBBCh, DTM&H, University of Witwatersrand.

Igor Sheiman
Adjunct Associate Professor. Director, Moscow Office of Legal & Regulatory Health Reform Project, Boston University.
PhD, The Institute of International Relations, Moscow.

Noel Solomons
Associate Professor.
MD, Harvard University.

Pius Muffih Tih
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director of Health Services, CBC Health Boards, Cameroon. President, National Essential Drugs, Cameroon.
PhD, William Carey International University, Pasadena; LLB, Vaounde University, Cameroon; MPH, Boston University.

Anita Wagner
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
PharmD, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences; DrPH, MPH, Harvard University.

Blair Wylie
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Assistant in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.
MD, Harvard University.

Muhammad Zaman
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Boston University College of Engineering.
PhD, University of Chicago.

Dejan Zurovac
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Clinical Researcher, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK; Postdoctoral Research Scientist, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi.
PhD, Open University, UK.