Standing Committee to Support USAID s Engagement in Health Systems Strengthening in Response to the Economic Transition of Health

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1 Standing Committee to Support USAID s Engagement in Health Systems Strengthening in Response to the Economic Transition of Health Committee Member Biographies Sheila Leatherman, M.S.W. (Chair) University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health Sheila Leatherman is a Research Professor at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. She conducts research and policy analysis internationally focusing on quality of care, health systems reform, methodologies for evaluating the performance of health care systems, and integrating microfinance and community health interventions. She was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2002 as a member of the Institute of Medicine and made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (2006). In the international field of health care quality and health systems strengthening, Ms. Leatherman worked from as an independent evaluator of the impact of government reforms on quality of care in the National Health Service of the UK (resulting in 3 books). In 2007, she was awarded the honor of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth for her work over the past decade in the National Health Service. In the U.S., she has authored a series of books on quality of health care; general (2002), child and adolescent health (2004), Medicare population (2005). She coauthored the first national report for Canada on quality, commissioned by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, published in She works with multiple low, middle and upper income countries advising and assisting in the development of national quality agendas. Her second area of research and practice is in the emerging field of integrating microfinance and income generation with community health interventions for poverty reduction and to promote health; projects have been conducted in India, Peru, Bolivia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Tanzania, Philippines and Cambodia. She has a broad background in health care management in State and Federal health agencies, as chief executive of an HMO, and as a senior executive of United Health Group in the U.S., where she founded and directed a research center for over ten years. Timothy Evans, D.Phil. (Vice Chair) World Bank Timothy Evans is the Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Dr. Evans has been active in the international health arena for more than 20 years. Before joining the World Bank he was the dean of the James P. Grant School of Public Health of BRAC University in Bangladesh. Previously he served as Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization, heading the Evidence, Information, Research and Policy Clusters, where he oversaw the production of the annual World Health Report. Dr. Evans has been a leader in advancing global health equity and health systems performance throughout his career, notably through his work with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health and with his contributions to the development of innovative partnerships, including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization, INDEPTH and Health Metrics networks, the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Alliance for Patient Safety. Dr. Evans earned his D.Phil. in agricultural economics at Oxford, and pursued medical and postgraduate studies at McMaster and Harvard Universities. Rifat Atun, M.B.B.S., M.B.A., FRCGP, FFPH, FRCP

2 Harvard School of Public Health Rifat Atun is a professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, and Director of the Global Health Systems Cluster. He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and from , he was a professor of International Health Management at Imperial College London. Between 2008 and 2012 he was a member of the Executive Management Team of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Switzerland as the Director of the Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster. His research is empirically oriented and focuses on health systems reform, diffusion of innovations in health systems and global health financing, including research and development. He has published extensively widely in these areas in the Lancet, PLoS Medicine, BMJ, Lancet Infectious Disease, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Professor Atun has worked at the UK Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre and has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, World Health Organization, and a number of international agencies on the design, implementation and evaluation of health system reforms. He has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the WHO Research Centre for Health Development in Japan. He is a member of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board, the UK Medical Research Council s Global Health Group and a member of Advisory Board for the Norwegian Research Council s Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research. Professor Atun studied medicine at University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar and subsequently completed his postgraduate medical studies and Masters in Business Administration at University of London and Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK), and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK). Frederico Guanais, Ph.D. Inter-American Development Bank Frederico Guanais is a Health Principal Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He is responsible for the design, supervision, and evaluation of loan operations to the health sector in several countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. He also leads a research agenda on health systems, primary care, chronic diseases, intersectoral coordination, and integrated health networks. A Brazilian national, prior to joining the IDB, he was Chief of Staff and Special Advisor to the Brazilian Minister of Social Development and Fight against Hunger, during a major expansion in social policy, including the national implementation of the conditional cash transfer Bolsa Família program. He has earned a Ph.D. in public administration from New York University, where he researched the health impacts of primary care decentralization in Brazil. His research has been published in major peer-reviewed journals in the areas of primary health care, health service delivery, health systems performance, and integration of health and social protection services. Margaret Gyapong, Ph.D., M.Sc. Ghana Health Service Margaret Gyapong is a medical anthropologist by training. She has an interest in health systems, implementation research, demographic surveillance systems, tropical diseases and gender. Dr. Gyapong is currently Deputy Director for Research and Development in charge of the Dodowa Health Research Centre. Between 2009 and 2014, she was Executive Director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IIDP), one of seven consortia of the African Institutions Initiative of the Wellcome Trust.

3 In the past 22 years, she has contributed to setting up of the Lymphatic Filariasis Control program in Ghana, building research capacity for district and regional health management teams, started and continues to maintain a Health and Demographic Surveillance System in the Dodowa Health Research Centre. The center collaborates with multiple organizations on various projects. In addition, she has served on a number of task forces and committees of the World Health Organization and the Task Force for Global health in Atlanta Georgia and is the lead author and facilitator of the recently launched WHO/TDR toolkit on implementation research. She has publications in and is a reviewer for several international journals. She is also a member of the INDEPTH NETWORK, African Social Research Initiative (ASRI), ISHRECA, and Partnership for Social Science in Infectious Diseases of Poverty (PSSIDP). Dr. Gyapong joined the School of Public Health of the University of Ghana as an adjunct faculty member in 2000 and set up the Masters Program in Applied Health Social Science. In addition she has held adjunct professorial appointments with the Brunel University and is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University where she is also a preceptor of their international health program. Margaret Kruk, M.D., M.P.H. Harvard School of Public Health Margaret E. Kruk is Associate Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kruk s research emphasizes health care utilization, health financing, quality of care, and population preferences for health services in low-income countries. Dr. Kruk is interested in the development of novel evaluation methods for assessing the effectiveness of complex interventions and health system reforms. She collaborates with governments and academics in several African countries, most recently Tanzania, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, and Ghana. She has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and was a Commissioner on the Lancet Global Health 2035 Commission. Prior to joining Harvard, Dr. Kruk was Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where she also directed the Global Health Systems, Coverage, and Quality Program. Before that, she was an assistant professor in Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and policy advisor for Health at the Millennium Project, an advisory body to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. She holds an M.D. degree from McMaster University and an M.P.H. from Harvard University. Ramanan Laxminarayan, Ph.D., M.P.H. Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy; Public Health Foundation of India Ramanan Laxminarayan directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. He is also a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University. His research deals with the integration of epidemiological models of infectious diseases and drug resistance into the economic analysis of public health problems. He has worked to improve understanding of drug resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource. Laxminarayan has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on evaluating malaria treatment policy, vaccination strategies, the economic burden of tuberculosis, and control of non-communicable diseases. He has served on a number of advisory committees at WHO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Medicine. In , he served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs and subsequently helped create the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria, a novel financing mechanism for antimalarials. His work has been covered in major media outlets including Associated Press, BBC, CNN, the Economist, LA Times, NBC, NPR, Reuters, Science, Wall Street Journal, and National Journal.

4 Nachiket Mor, M.B.A., Ph.D. CARE India; Reserve Bank of India; CRISIL Nachiket Mor is the chairman of the board of CARE India, a board member of the Reserve Bank of India, and a board member of CRISL. He has a background in finance and economics with a specific interest in financial access and healthcare. Dr. Mor worked with ICICI, India s second largest bank, from 1987 to 2007 and was a member of its Board of Directors from 2001 to From 2007 to 2011, he served as the founding president of the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth and during this period was also the chair of the Governing Council of IFMR Trust and board chair of FINO, both leading participants in the field of financial inclusion in India. While at ICICI he also served as a board member of Wipro for five years and board chair of the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India for two years. During he served as a member of the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage for India appointed by the Planning Commission of India, and during as a member of the health subcommittee of the National Advisory Council of the Government of India. Dr. Mor is currently also a member of the Board of Directors of the IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health and Sughavazhvu Healthcare. Dr. Mor is a Yale World Fellow, has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in finance from the Wharton School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad, and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Mumbai University. Michele Orza, Sc.D. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Michele J. Orza serves as senior advisor to the executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Prior to joining institute, she was a principal policy analyst at the National Health Policy Forum, focused on evidence-based health practice and policy, public health infrastructure and systems, global health, and health science and technology. Previously, Dr. Orza was a scholar at the Institute of Medicine with the Board on Global Health, where she served as study director for the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Evaluation. While at the IOM, she also served as acting director of the Board on Health Care Services. Prior to that, she had served as assistant director of the Health Care Team at the Government Accountability Office, where she was responsible for managing study teams evaluating a wide range of federal programs. She also served as director of Science and Research at the American College of Cardiology, where her department was responsible for supporting the College s evidence-based medicine activities. Before coming to Washington, D.C., she worked as a research assistant in the Technology Assessment Group at the Harvard School of Public Health on a wide variety of methods for and applications of systematic reviews and meta-analysis and other tools to promote and support evidence-based public health. Currently, Dr. Orza also serves as the consumer representative on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs. She received both her master s degree in health policy and management and her doctorate in program evaluation from the Harvard School of Public Health. William Tierney, M.D. Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Indiana University School of Medicine William Tierney received a B.A. in biological sciences from Indiana University (IU) in 1973 and an M.D. from IU in He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1979 and was Chief Resident at Wishard Memorial Hospital from

5 He joined the Indiana University s School of Medicine s Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics in 1980 where he has been a clinician-investigator focusing on the application of information technology in medicine and its effects on the quality, efficiency, and costs of health care. He led a team of Americans and Kenyans that implemented the first ambulatory electronic medical record system in sub-saharan Africa that supports urban and rural primary care and specialty care for patients with HIV/AIDS. Dr. Tierney is a senior research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute and currently serves as Chief of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He also is a practicing hospital physician at Wishard Hospital. Dr. Tierney is director of research for the IU Kenya Program. He also co-directs ResNet, a primary care practicebased research network with 27 inner-city and suburban primary care practice sites in central Indiana where more than 250 physicians annually care for 150,000 adult and pediatric patients. Over its 30- year history, ResNet has hosted more than $30 million in extramurally funded studies and published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. Dr. Tierney is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, ranked in the top 20 among general medical journals. Dr. Tierney is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He was elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and was a founding fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is listed in the Guide to America s Top Physicians published by the Consumers Research Council of America. Dr. Tierney has received more than $20 million as principal investigator in grants and contracts from federal agencies and research foundations and has published more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Tierney was named IUPUI Chancellor s Professor in Nana Twum-Danso, M.D., M.P.H. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Nana A. Y. Twum-Danso is a public health and preventive medicine physician with more than ten years of experience in global health policy, strategy, program development, project management, monitoring, and evaluation. She has technical expertise in quality improvement, change management, health systems strengthening, community-based health care delivery, maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH), parasitic disease control, pharmacovigilance, and road traffic safety. She has lived and worked in Cameroon, Ghana, Pakistan, and the United States. In April 2012, Dr. Twum-Danso joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a senior program officer in the Family Health Division where she is responsible for designing, developing and managing an innovative grants program across the continuum of care in MNCH. Prior to that, she worked for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), initially as the director of Project Fives Alive!, a collaboration amongst IHI, the National Catholic Health Service and the Ghana Health Service to accelerate the reduction of child mortality in Ghana through the application of quality improvement methods nationwide, and later became the executive director for African Operations. Dr. Twum- Danso holds a bachelor s degree in biochemical sciences and a medical degree, both from Harvard University as well as a master s degree in public health with specialization in health policy and management from Emory University. She has been a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine since 2003 and is a member of both the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the International Society for Quality in Health Care. Winnie Yip, Ph.D. University of Oxford Winnie Yip is a professor of health policy and economics at the University of Oxford and research fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, where she co-directs the Global Health Policy Program. She is also part-time Professor of Health Policy and Economics at the China Centre for

6 Health and Development Studies, Peking University and Adjunct Professor of International Health Policy and Economics at Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Yip received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests include incentives and provider behavior; health care system design and impact evaluation of health system interventions; delivery of cost-effective health interventions; and social, economic and cultural determinants of health and well-being. She leads several projects on large-scale health system interventions and evaluations in China and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the European Union Commission, the Economics and Social Science Research Council. She has extensive research and executive training experience in Asia, especially China. She is the current Chair of the Flagship Course on Health Systems Strengthening and Sustainable Financing of the Asia Network for Health System Strengthening and a member of the Expert Group on Provider Payment Mechanisms of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage. She has acted as adviser to the World Bank and other international agencies. Professor Yip is associate editor of Health Economics (Wiley), and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing (Elsevier), and editorial board member of Health Policy, Health Economics, Policy and Law (Cambridge University Press) and Health Economics Review (Springer).