Advisory Board

Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim  is the 17th President of Dartmouth College. He has been a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, and is a former director of the World Health Organization HIV/AIDS department. He is a co-founder of the nonprofit medical organization Partners in Health. Kim has been a critical player in the development of a new field focused on improving the implementation and delivery of global health interventions. This new field will rigorously gather, analyze, and widely disseminate a comprehensive body of practical, actionable insights on effective global health delivery. In order to develop this field, Kim co-founded the Global Health Delivery project, a joint initiative of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Social Medicine and the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.

Christopher Murray

Christopher Murray is the Institute Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington School of Medicine. A physician and health economist, his work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen the basis for population health measurement, measure the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost-effectiveness of health technologies.

Murray’s early work focused on tuberculosis control and the development with Dr. Alan Lopez of the Global Burden of Disease methods and applications. In this work, they developed a new metric to compare death and disability from various diseases and the contribution of risk factors to the overall burden of disease in developing and developed countries. This pioneering effort has been hailed as a major landmark in public health and an important foundation for policy formulation and priority setting.

Murray served as the Executive Director of the Evidence and Information for Policy Cluster at the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. From 2003 until 2007, he was the Director of the Harvard University Initiative for Global Health and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, as well as the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health.

James Orbinski

James Orbinski is Associate Professor of Medicine and Political Science at the University of Toronto and a research scientist and clinician at St. Michael‘s Hospital at the University of Toronto. He has worked in the field extensively for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), including as Head of Mission in Kigali during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Orbinski was elected MSF’s international president from 1998 to 2001. He launched its Access to Essential Medicines Campaign in 1999, and in that same year accepted the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to MSF for its pioneering approach to medical humanitarianism, and most especially for its approach to witnessing.

From 2001 to 2004 Orbinski co-chaired MSF' s Neglected Diseases Working Group, which created and launched the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). The DNDi is a global not-for-profit drug development organization that develops medicines and other health technologies for diseases largely neglected by profit driven research and development companies.

Orbinski is also a founder and Board Chair of Dignitas International, a hybrid academic nongovernmental organization launched to research community-based care, prevention and treatment for people living with HIV in the developing world.

Sir Michael Rawlins

Sir Michael Rawlins has been chairman of the National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) since its formation in 1999. He is also chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (since 1998). He is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

He was the Ruth and Lionel Jacobson Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1973 to 2006. At the same time he held the position of consultant physician and consultant clinical pharmacologist to the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust. He was vice-chairman (1987-1992) and chairman (1993-1998) of the Committee on Safety of Medicines.

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was formerly Honorary President of OXFAM and is now its Honorary Advisor.

Amartya Sen’s books include Poverty and Famines, Development as Freedom, and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny among others. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war.

Sen has been awarded numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include: Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, Pushing Time Away, The President of Good and Evil, and The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason). He co-founded The Great Ape Project with Paola Cavalieri, and is currently president of Animal Rights International. In 2005 Time named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Judith Whitworth

Judith Whitworth is the former Director of The John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University and heads the High Blood Pressure Research Unit. Whitworth is Chair of WHO's Global Advisory Committee on Health Research, an Ambassador for Canberra and an Ambassador for Women. She was Australian Capital Territory Australian of the Year for 2004.

Whitworth graduated from the University of Melbourne, which awarded her the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1974, a PhD in 1978 and a Doctor of Science in 1992. She has practiced medicine and research extensively in Australia and overseas; she chaired the Medical Research Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and is a Past-President of the Australian Society for Medical Research, and the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia. She has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales and Glasgow.

Richard Wilder

Richard Wilder is Associate General Council for Intellectual Property Policy at Microsoft. Before returning to the private practice of law, Wilder was Director of the Global Intellectual Property Issues Division in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). There he was responsible for programs dealing with diverse issues, including biotechnology, genetic resources, health care, traditional knowledge, folklore and human rights. Wilder also served in the U.S. Patent and Trademark, Office of Legislative and International Affairs, where he represented the U.S. Government in international negotiations on intellectual property issues.

Before his public service, Wilder practiced intellectual property law in corporate and law firm settings. There he advised clients in all areas of intellectual property, sought protection ( including drafting and filing patent and trademark applications), conducted licensing negotiations, and handled dispute resolution involving intellectual property. In the area of dispute resolution, he handled litigated matters both in U.S. Federal Courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Management Team

Professor Thomas Pogge

Having received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University, Thomas Pogge writes and teaches on moral and political philosophy and Kant. His recent publications include John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, Oxford 2007; Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, edited, Oxford 2007; Global Institutions and Responsibilities, edited with Christian Barry, Blackwell 2005; Real World Justice, edited with Andreas Follesdal, Springer 2005; World Poverty and Human Rights, Polity 2002; and Global Justice, edited, Blackwell 2001. Pogge is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

His work was supported, most recently, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, All Souls College (Oxford), the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda), the Australian Research Council, and the BUPA Foundation.

He is currently Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), and Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN).

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Professor Aidan Hollis

Aidan Hollis is a Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary. He was educated at Cambridge University (BA) and the University of Toronto (MA, PhD). His research focuses on pharmaceutical markets -- including issues relating to innovation, competition, trade, and access. He has also published more broadly in economics within the field of industrial organization, including on a historical Irish microfinance institution. Hollis worked in corporate banking for several years in London and Seoul, and in 2003-4 served as the T.D.MacDonald Chair of Industrial Economics at the Competition Bureau, Ottawa.  More information is available at his university webpage: http://econ.ucalgary.ca/hollis.htm.

Tim Gilbert

Tim Gilbert is a partner and founder of Gilbert's LLP. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1990 and founded Gilbert's in 2001 after spending eight years with a prominent Toronto boutique litigation firm where he was a partner. He is an able and experienced trial advocate and has represented clients in various courts and forums in a variety of areas. He is known and respected in the commercial courts of Ontario and the Federal Court of Canada and has broad experience in intellectual property litigation in several leading industries, including the pharmaceutical, high-tech and financial services industries.

Gilbert has significant experience in pharmaceutical regulatory law and competition law effectively representing clients concerning all aspects of the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products in both Canada and the United States. He also has a diverse government relations practice in Canada and in the United States. He teaches trial advocacy at the Faculty of Law at University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Advocates' Society. Association, the Advocates’ Society and the Food and Drug Law Institute.

Gilbert founded Gilbert’s Global, which provides strategic consulting and legal services to companies, civil society organizations, governments and international agencies that are grappling with issues related to global health, trade, technology, sustainability and intellectual property.

Matt Peterson

Matt Peterson is the Chief Financial Officer of Incentives for Global Health. He is also a Global Justice Graduate Fellow at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, where his work focuses on the contributions international institutions make to human rights violations. He also produces the podcast Public Ethics Radio. He has been a Research Assistant for Prof. Thomas Pogge at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Canberra, Australia and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne Philosophy Department.

David Franklin

David R. Franklin is an associate at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP. He works in the firm’s Tax, Structured Real Estate Investments, Latin America Real Estate and Clean Technologies practice groups. He joined Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman in 2000, which was merged into Cooley Godward Kronish LLP in 2006. He is resident in the New York office. Mr. Franklin’s practice covers a wide range of areas in the tax law, including corporate, partnership, and international tax planning and litigation. Mr. Franklin received an LL.M. in taxation from the New York University School of Law in 2005. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2000. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1996, graduating summa cum laude and with departmental honors in philosophy.

Dave Goodman

Dave Goodman is the Secretary of the Board of Incentives for Global Health. Dave is the co-founder and co-chair of NYC Results, a policy advocacy group with a focus on U.S. foreign aid. He has managed research in cognitive neuroscience at Columbia University’s Center for the Decision Sciences and worked as a research analyst at D.E. Shaw & Co. Prior to his career in research, Dave spent over ten years as a management consultant to leading multi-national corporations, guiding executives on technology infrastructure and knowledge management strategies. Dave is interested in the neural foundations for ethical behavior and novel approaches to behavioral economics. He has a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University.

Support and Affiliations

Australian Research Council

BUPA Foundation, UK

Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Australian National University

Gilberts LLP, Canada

We welcome expressions of interest in the project. If you’d like to help out, please send an email to igh@yale.edu.