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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Commission Members, Consultants, and Staff
Pages 113-128

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From page 113...
... , with the is a Fellow of the Academy of Science of Nigeria, a Fel- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Publow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons of Nigeria, lic Health Service Certificate for contribution to Lassa Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of the fever research, and in 1990 he was the recipient of the United Kingdom, and Fellow of the American Society Nigerian National Ministry of Science and Technolof Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
From page 114...
... Prior to this she was Regional Director Nigerian Expert Review Committee on Polio Eradica- of Health Services in the Ghana Health Service Greater tion and Routine Immunization, WHO Africa Regional Accra region from 2004 to 2012, and before that DisPolio Certification Committee, WHO Advisory Com- trict Director of Health for the Dangme West district. mittee on Variola Virus Research, WHO Polio Research She was Professor to the Prince Claus Chair in DevelCommittee, WHO Group of Experts on Yellow Fever opment and Equity from 2008 to 2010 at the UniverDisease and the International Steering Committee of sity of Utrecht in the Netherlands, based in the Julius the International Consortium on Antivirals (ICAV)
From page 115...
... Freire served as Pres ident and CEO of the Global Alliance for TB Drug DePaul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., chairs the Department of velopment from 2001 to 2008, Director of the Office of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical Technology Transfer at the National Institutes of Health School and is a co-founder and Chief Strategist of Part- from 1995 to 2001, and led the Office of Technology ners In Health (PIH) , an international nonprofit orga- Development at the University of Maryland at Baltimore nization that since 1987 has provided direct health care and the University of Maryland Baltimore County from services and undertaken research and advocacy activities 1989 to 1995.
From page 116...
... work, smallpox, and genomic sequencing data. He is a Chan School of Public Health and T & G Angelopoulos member of the WHO/Global Fund Blue Ribbon Expert Professor of Public Health and International Develop- Panel entitled The Equitable Access Initiative to develop ment, a joint appointment with the Harvard Kennedy a global health equity framework.
From page 117...
... ; Law and the received the Public Health Law Association's Distin- Health System (Foundation Press, 2014) ; Principles of guished Lifetime Achievement Award "in recognition Mental Health Law & Practice (Oxford University Press, of a career devoted to using law to improve the public's 2010)
From page 118...
... During the Ebola outbreak, she created of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on which she an online portal -- the Ebola Response Anthropology served until 2011. She was the founding board member Platform -- that helps health workers and anthropolo- of the Public Health Foundation of India and worked
From page 119...
... Her Board of the Ministerial Leadership Program of the areas of expertise include social determinants of health, Harvard School of Public Health, Member of the Eco- health equity, and health systems. Prior to being apnomic Reference Group on HIV/AIDS, and Member of pointed as Director of Fonasa by President Michelle ­ the Chief Minister's Advisory Council on Health.
From page 120...
... Dr. Yamada has served as President of The Bill PIP, including other emerging infectious diseases & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program.
From page 121...
... is President of The Institute, the Duke Global Health Institute, the Duke- Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world's leading National University of Singapore Graduate Medical philanthropic organizations. She was previously PresiSchool, and the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.
From page 122...
... Prior to World Economic Forum, Mr. Bernaert House Council for Community Solutions.
From page 123...
... Prior to joining the Gates Founda- a Medical Officer in the Bureau of Public Health of tion in February 2012, he worked in various positions T ­ okyo Metropolitan Government. The job included an and countries for international nonprofit organiza- assignment as the sole medical doctor on remote islands tions, most recently serving as the president and CEO in the Pacific, where he worked under difficult condiof PATH, an international, nonprofit organization tions and with limited resources.
From page 124...
... for Sustainable Development, a member of the Interna- and Special Envoy Global Network NTDs. From 2003 tional Business Council of the World Economic Forum, to 2013, she was Pan American Health Organization a member of the B Team and sits on the Board of the (PAHO)
From page 125...
... STAR) ; Senior Advisor to the Governing Board between Shanghai Municipal Government and a U.S.- of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School; and Membased charity Project HOPE.
From page 126...
... and with the World Health Organization on inburgh, Royal College of Physicians of London, the issues of global health research governance and health American College of Physicians, elected Fellow of the research system evaluation. He has also held an honorary Polish Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the Royal research fellowship at RAND Europe and has previously Geographical Society, United Kingdom.
From page 127...
... a certificate in emerging infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Iowa. David Garrison is a Senior Program Assistant for the Board on Global Health at the National Academies of V
From page 128...
... He has also been awarded two honor capacity-building partnerships with numerous elements ary doctoral degrees and is board-certified in preventive of the federal government and with health ministries in medicine and public health. more than 45 developing countries.


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