The Harvard Global Health Institute Steering Committee is a distinguished and diverse group of global health leaders, including clinicians, practitioners, researchers, and scholars.  Their areas of expertise range from medical ethics and science policy to drug resistance and malaria genomics, and they are among the most cited, prolific, and well-regarded thinkers in the field.  They advise and consult with the Institute’s leadership, and help ensure that the Institute’s mission – to serve as the “connective tissue” for the people and programs in global health – informs all its programs and activities.

Members

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jane Barrow, Assistant Dean of Global and Community Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Anne E. Becker, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Lisa Berkman, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Sara Bleich, Professor of Public Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health

Allan M. Brandt (Chair), Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science; Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School

I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics

David M. Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Member of faculty, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Harvard College Professor

Wafaie Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences; Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Co-Director of the Master in Urban Planning Program

Atul Gawande, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School Public Health; Founder and Chair, Ariadne Labs

Gary L. Gottlieb, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Executive Partner with Flare Capital Partners

Robert S. Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Co-chair, HBS Healthcare Initiative

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, South Asia Institute at Harvard University

Jennifer Leaning, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director of Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School

Jack P. Shonkoff, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital; Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Michael VanRooyen, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Chairman, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine

Bruce Walker, Professor of Medicine,  Harvard Medical School; Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Lucie E. White, Harvard Law School professor and Interim Faculty Chair of the Harvard Committee on African Studies

Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases; Chair, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-director, Infectious Disease Initiative, Broad Institute; Director, Harvard Malaria Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty Chair, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS), Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of the China Health Partnership