Speaker Contact and Biosketch List Nancy Ammerman, PhD ...

Speaker Contact and Biosketch List 

Nancy Ammerman, PhD 

Professor of Sociology of Religion 

Boston University, School of Theology 

745 Commonwealth Ave. 

Boston, MA 02215 

nta@bu.edu 

Dr. Nancy Ammerman has spent more than a decade studying American religious organizations 

and the people who participate in them. Her 2005 book, Pillars of Faith: American 

Congregations and their Partners (2005, University of California Press) describes the common 

organizational patterns that shape the work of America’s diverse communities of faith. She has 

also written extensively on conservative religious movements, including Bible Believers: 

Fundamentalists in the Modern World, a study of an independent Baptist church in New England, 

and Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention. In 

addition, she has consulted with the “African Religious Health Assets Program,” based at the 

University of Cape Town. Currently, with funding from the Templeton Foundation, she is 

exploring “Spiritual Narratives in Everyday Life,” a research project that will analyze how and 

when religion is present in the everyday worlds of ordinary Americans. Nancy earned the Ph.D. 

degree from Yale University and is currently Professor of Sociology of Religion at Boston 

University, with appointments in the School of Theology and the Department of Sociology, 

where she serves as the department’s Director of Graduate Studies. 

George Annas, MPH, JD 

Chair, Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights 

Edward R. Utley Professor, Health Law 

Boston University, School of Public Health 

715 Albany St. 

Talbot 443 West 


annasgj@bu.edu 

George Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, 

Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the 

Boston University School of Medicine, and School of Law. He is the cofounder of Global 

Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational professional association of lawyers and physicians 

working together to promote human rights and health. He has degrees from Harvard College 

(A.B. economics, '67), Harvard Law School (J.D. '70) and Harvard School of Public Health 

(M.P.H. '72). Professor Annas is the author or editor of seventeen books on health law and 

bioethics, including Public Health Law (2007), American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and 

Health Law Boundaries (2005), The Rights of Patients (3d ed. 2004), Some Choice: Law, 

Medicine, and the Market (1999), Standard of Care: The Law of American Bioethics (l993), and 

Judging Medicine (1987), and a play entitled Shelley's Brain, that has been presented to bioethics 

audiences across the U.S. and in Australia. He has been ranked as the nation’s most cited law 

professor in the field of health law. Professor Annas wrote a regular feature on "law and 

bioethics" for the Hastings Center Report from 1976 to 199l, and a regular feature on "Public 

Health and the Law" in the American Journal of Public Health from 1982 to 1992 and since 1991

has written a regular feature for the New England Journal of Medicine (“Health Law, Ethics & 

Human Rights”). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a 

member of the Institute of Medicine, and co-chair of the American Bar Association's Committee 

on Health Rights and Bioethics (Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section). He has also held 

a variety of government regulatory posts, including Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Board of 

Registration in Medicine, Chair of the Massachusetts Health Facilities Appeals Board, and Chair 

of the Massachusetts Organ Transplant Task Force. 

Carol Bellamy, JD 

President and CEO, World Learning 

Kipling Road, P.O. Box 676 

Brattleboro, Vermont 05302-0676 

carol.bellamy@worldlearning.org 

Carol Bellamy is the president and CEO of World Learning, a private, non-profit organization 

that promotes international and intercultural understanding through education and training, 

exchange and development activities in more than 75 countries on five continents. She is also 

president of World Learning’s School for International Training. Bellamy previously served 10 

years as executive director of UNICEF, the children’s agency of the United Nations. She was 

also the first former volunteer to become director of the Peace Corps. Bellamy has worked in the 

private sector at Bear Stearns & Co., Morgan Stanley and Co., and Cravath, Swaine and Moore. 

She spent 13 years as an elected public official, including five years in the New York state Senate. 

In 1978, she became the first woman to be elected president of the New York City Council, a 

position she held until 1985. In 2004, Bellamy was named to Forbes magazine’s 100 Most 

Powerful Women in the World. 

Solomon Benatar, MBChB, PhD 

Professor of Medicine, Director University of Cape Town Bioethics Center 

University of Cape Town 

Department of Medicine, Bioethics Centre Observatory 

Cape Town 7701 

South Africa 

sbenatar@uctgsh1.uct.ac.za 

Solomon Benatar is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, Founding Director of 

the UCT Bioethics Center and Program Director of the International Research Ethics Network for 

Southern Africa, a US NIH Fogarty International Center funded capacity building program. He 

was Professor of Medicine, Chairman of the University of Cape Town’s Department of Internal 

Medicine and Chief Physician at Groote Schuur Hospital from 1980-1999 and President of the 

International Association of Bioethics from 2001-2003. He has been an annual Visiting Professor 

in Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto since 2000. His academic 

interests have included respiratory diseases, health services, academic freedom, human rights, 

medical ethics, international research ethics, HIV/AIDS and global health on which he has 

published widely. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, an elected 

foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences` Institute of Medicine and of the 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of Imperial College 

London.

Homi Bhabha, PhD 

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities 

Director of the Humanities Center 

Harvard University, Dept. of English & American Literature 

Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. 

Cambridge MA 02138 

hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu 

Homi K. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, 

Harvard University; Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard; and Distinguished Visiting 

Professor in the Humanities at University College, London. His book, Location of Culture, has 

been translated into Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, French, and Portuguese. Most 

recently, he completed the introduction to a new translation of Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the 

Earth. He has delivered the Presidential Lectures at the Freie Universität Berlin and at Stanford 

University. Other recent keynote addresses include: “State of the World” forum at the Gulbenkian 

Foundation (Lisbon); Scope II: Sites and Sounds-Narrating Heritage (Vienna); the Goethe-Institut 

meeting of international directors; the Volkswagen Foundation “Boundaries: Differences” 

conference (Dresden); Colloquium on Research and Higher Education organized by UNESCO; 

and the Beckman Lectures at the UC, Berkeley. Also, he has served twice as a Faculty Advisor to 

the DAVOS World Economic Forum. Newsweek named him one of “100 Americans for the Next 

Century.” Educated at the University of Bombay and the University of Oxford, Bhabha advises 

key arts institutions and is a regular contributor to Artforum. He has published widely in journals 

including New Formations, October, Oxford Literary Review and Screen. He sits on the editorial 

board of, amongst others, October, Critical Inquiry, and New Formations. Bhabha is currently at 

work on A Measure of Dwelling, a theory of vernacular cosmopolitanism forthcoming from 

Harvard University Press, and The Right to Narrate, forthcoming from Columbia University 

Press. 

Allan Brandt, PhD 

Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine 

Harvard Medical School 

Department of Social Medicine 

641 Huntington Ave 

Boston MA 02115 

brandt@fas.harvard.edu 

Allan M. Brandt is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard 

Medical School. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of the History of Science at 

Harvard University. Brandt earned his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University and a Ph.D. 

in American History from Columbia University in 1983. His work focuses on social and ethical 

aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in the twentieth-century United States. Brandt is 

the author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That 

Defined America and No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States 

Since 1880. He has written on the social history of epidemic disease; the history of public health; 

and the history of human subject research among other topics.

Dan Brock, PhD 

Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics 

Director of the Division of Medical Ethics HMS 

Director, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health 


Department of Social Medicine 



dan_brock@hms.harvard.edu 

Dan W. Brock is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of 

Social Medicine and Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School. 

He is also Director of the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health. Previously he was Senior 

Scientist and a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of 

Health. Until July 2002, he was Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Professor of 

Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown 

University where he had a joint appointment in the Philosophy Department (of which he was 

Chair in 1980-86) and in the Medical School. He received his B.A. in economics from Cornell 

University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. 

He served as Staff Philosopher on the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical 

Problems in Medicine in 1981-82, and in 1993 was a member of the Ethics Working Group of the 

Clinton Task Force on National Health Reform. He has been a consultant in biomedical ethics 

and health policy to numerous national and international bodies, including the National Bioethics 

Advisory Commission, and the World Health Organization. He is an elected member of the 

Institute of Medicine and a fellow and former Board member of the Hastings Center. He was 

President of the American Association of Bioethics in 1995-96, and was a founding Board 

Member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. 

He is the author of over 150 articles in bioethics and in moral and political philosophy, 

which have appeared in books and peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including the New England 

Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Science, Hastings Center Report, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and 

Ethics. He is the author of Deciding For Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making, 1989, 

(with Allen E. Buchanan), Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics, 1993, and 

From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (with Allen Buchanan, Norman Daniels and Daniel 

Wikler) 2000, all published by Cambridge University Press. He is currently an editorial board 

member of 14 professional journals in ethics, bioethics and health policy, and has lectured widely 

at national and international conferences, professional societies, universities, and health care 

institutions. His current research focuses on the prioritization of health resources and rationing, 

with a special focus on cost-effectiveness analysis, and on genetic selection for enhancement and 

to prevent disability 

David Canning, PhD 

Department of Population and International Health 

SPH I 

1211, 12th Floor 

665 Huntington Avenue 


dcanning@hsph.harvard.edu

Richard Cash 

Senior Lecturer on International Health 

Department of Population and International Health 


Building I, Room 1106c 


617.432.1076 

racash@hsph.harvard.edu 

Dr. Richard A. Cash is presently the Principal Investigator of a NIH training grant on "Ethical 

Issues in International Health Research". This program explores differences between and within 

countries with regard to health research ethics and conducts training workshops. In addition to 

workshops conducted at the HSPH, workshops are planned for Mexico, South Africa, and Kerala 

in South India. Informed consent, confidentiality, conflict of interest, investigator responsibilities 

to the study population, research in resource poor environments, and the development of ethical 

review committees are just some of the subjects covered in the different workshops. Dr. Cash was 

previously the Principal Investigator of the Applied Diarrheal Disease Research (ADDR) Project, 

a program, which assisted developing country scientists to develop their research abilities by 

conducting their own research projects. Over 150 studies, involving more than 350 investigators 

were funded in twelve countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America leading to over 275 

publications. The research priorities of the program focused on the following areas: behavioral 

studies of care takers and providers; foods and fluids; prevention of diarrhea; persistent and 

evasive diarrhea; and acute respiratory infection and nutrition. The ADDR Project has been 

replaced by the Applied Research for Child Health (ARCH) Project which has further expanded 

its work. A number of studies were pursued by ADDR and now ARCH to explore the process by 

which researchers are trained and how research results are translated into policy and program 

implementation. 

Sarah Coakley, PhD, ThM, Dr. Theology 

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity 

Harvard Divinity School 

Divinity Hall, Room 305 


Sarah Coakley taught at Lancaster and Oxford Universities before coming to Harvard Divinity 

School in 1993. She became the Mallinckrodt Professor in 1995. A systematic theologian and 

philosopher of religion, she has wide interdisciplinary interests, as reflected in her research and 

teaching. Her most recent books are Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and 

Gender (2002) and Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (ed., 2003). She is currently completing a coedited 

volume, Pain and Its Transformations (2007), a product of her work in the 

interdisciplinary "Mind, Brain, Behavior" group at Harvard; and she is at work on a four-volume 

systematic theology, the first volume of which will appear as God, Sexuality and the Self: An 

Essay 'On the Trinity' (forthcoming). Previous works include Christ Without Absolutes: A Study 

of the Christology of Ernst Troeltsch, and an edited volume on comparative religion, Religion and 

the Body. She co-chaired (in 2004) a Templeton Foundation symposium on spiritual healing, 

from which an edited volume is being produced; and she is a recent recipient of a Templeton 

award for her course "Medicine and Religion" (co-taught with Arthur Kleinman at Harvard 

Medical School). From 2005 to 2008 she is co-directing (with Martin Nowak, Center of 

Evolutionary Dynamics) a new $2 million research project ("The Theology of Cooperation") on

theology, evolutionary biology, and game theory, also funded by the Templeton Foundation. 

Professor Coakley is an ordained priest of the Church of England, and assists in parishes in 

Waban, Massachusetts, and in Littlemore, Oxford, England. 

Veena Das, PhD 

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor 

Chair Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, 

404F Macaulay Hall 

3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 

veenadas@jhu.edu 

Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins 

University. She has researched extensively on collective violence, everyday life and social 

suffering. Currently she is engaged in a longitudinal study on poverty and urban health in 

India. Her recent books include Critical Events: An anthropological Perspective on 

Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, 1995 and three volumes on the themes of social 

suffering, violence and subjectivity and remaking everyday life after traumatic violence of which 

she is a co-editor. She taught in the University of Delhi for thirty-three years. She is on the 

executive board of the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Development and 

Democracy in Delhi and the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. She is a foreign 

honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received an honorary 

doctorate from the University of Chicago. 

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, PhD 

Professor of Philosophy 

Northwestern University 

1880 Campus Dr. #2-335 

Evanston, IL 60208-2164 

s-diagne@northwestern.edu 

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Northwestern University. 

He is also a faculty member of the Program of African studies. An alumnus of Ecole Normale 

Superieure in Paris, he obtained his PhD in philosophy at the University of Sorbonne. His field of 

research includes history of algebraic logic, Islamic philosophy and Mysticism (Sufism) and 

cultural studies. His first publication was a presentation, in French, of George Boole’s algebra of 

Logic: Boole, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour (Paris. Belin. 1989) [ Boole, a nightbird in the 

daylight] . His most recent book, Islam et société ouverte, la fidélité et le mouvement dans la 

pensée de Muhammad Iqbal (Paris. Maisonneuve & Larose. 2001)[ Islam and the open society: 

Fidelity and movement in Muhammad Iqbal’s Thought] is an introduction to the thought of one of 

the greatest modernist philosophers of the Muslim world: the Indian poet Muhammad Iqbal. He 

has also published in 2002 a lexicon titled Cent mots pour dire l’Islam, or, in English: A hundred 

definitions to understand Islam. In the field of African philosophy, among other titles, Diagne has 

published “Africanity as an open question.” In Identity and beyond: rethinking Africanity.

Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH 

Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management 

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Executive Director 

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics 

Philip Franklin Wagley Professor in Biomedical Ethics 

Hampton House 352 

624 North Broadway 

Baltimore, MD 21205 

rfaden@jhsph.edu 

Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and 

Executive Director of The Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins University. 

She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. 

Dr. Faden is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on biomedical ethics and health 

policy including Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (with 

Madison Powers), A History and Theory of Informed Consent (with Tom Beauchamp), AIDS, 

Women and the Next Generation (Ruth Faden, Gail Geller and Madison Powers, eds.), HIV, AIDS 

and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (Ruth Faden and Nancy Kass, eds.). Dr. Faden is 

a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the American 

Psychological Association. She has served on several national advisory committees and 

commissions, including the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, 

which she chaired. Dr. Faden holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in General 

Studies in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MPH and Ph.D. (Program in 

Attitudes and Behavior) from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD 

The Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine 


Dept. of Social Medicine 



paulhaiti@aol.com 

Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health, an 

international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research 

and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer’s work 

draws primarily on active clinical practice (he is an attending physician in infectious diseases and 

chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s 

Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and medical director of a charity hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, 

in rural Haiti) and focuses on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor. Along with his 

colleagues at BWH, in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical 

School, and in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based 

treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis). Dr. 

Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim 

that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor settings. Dr. Farmer has written 

extensively about health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in the

distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. He is the author of Pathologies of Power 

(University of California Press, 2003), Infections and Inequalities (University of California Press, 

1998), The Uses of Haiti (Common Courage Press, 1994), and AIDS and Accusation (University 

of California Press, 1992). In addition, he is co-editor of Women, Poverty, and AIDS (Common 

Courage Press, 1996) and of The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Harvard 

Medical School and Open Society Institute, 1999). 

Steve Feierman, PhD 

Professor of History 

University of Pennsylvania 

322 Logan Hall 

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379 

FEIERMAN@SAS.UPENN.EDU 

Steven Feierman is a historian and ethnographer of medicine in Africa. He is the author of several 

books, including Peasant Intellectuals, The Shambaa Kingdom, and (as co-editor) The Social 

Basis of Health and Healing in Africa. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the 

history of local forms of social medicine across eastern, central, and southern Africa. Feierman 

has lived and worked periodically in Tanzania over several decades. He is Professor of History & 

Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Feierman received a Ph.D. in African 

History from Northwestern University and a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Oxford. He 

also completed an apprenticeship as a traditional healer in East Africa. 

Julio Frenk 

Senior Fellow 

Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 

Former Minister of Health, Mexico 

jfrenk@prodigy.net.mx 

Julio Frenk recently concluded his six-year term as the Minister of Health of Mexico. In addition 

to strengthening public health programs, his central contribution was an ambitious reform to 

provide universal health insurance. This program is expanding access to quality care and financial 

protection for 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor and uninsured. Since February 1, 2007, 

Julio Frenk is Senior Fellow at the Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates 

Foundation, where he provides advice on strategies and programs. His career has also included 

executive positions at the World Health Organization and the Mexican Health Foundation. He 

was the founding Director-General of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, was a 

Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and was awarded the position of National Researcher in 

his country. He is a member of several professional associations, including the National Academy 

of Medicine of Mexico and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science in the 

United States. His written production includes 29 books and monographs, 49 book chapters, 94 

articles in academic journals, and 106 articles in cultural periodicals and newspapers. Two of his 

books are best-selling novels for youngsters explaining the functions of the human body.

Dr. Frenk holds a medical degree from the National University of Mexico, as well as a Master’s 

of Public Health and a joint doctorate in Medical Care Organization and in Sociology from the 

University of Michigan. In summary, Dr. Julio Frenk has gained substantial experience over a 25year 

career covering leadership positions in all major aspects of public health: research, teaching, 

independent policy analysis, institution building, international cooperation, and national public 

service. 

Renee Fox, PhD 

Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences 

University of Pennsylvania 

3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Ste. 113 


rcfox@ssc.upenn.edu 

Renée C. Fox, a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College, earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 

1954 from Harvard University, where she studied in the Department of Social Relations. Before 

joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, she was a member of the Columbia 

University Bureau of Applied Social Research, taught for twelve years at Barnard College, and 

then spent two years as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard. At 

the University of Pennsylvania, she was a professor in the Department of Sociology with joint, 

secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, and in the School of 

Nursing; and she held an interdisciplinary chair as the Annenberg Professor of the Social 

Sciences. On July 1, 1998, she became the Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences. 

She is also an Emerita Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics, and a member of the Affiliated 

Faculty of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of 

Pennsylvania. 

Renée Fox’s major teaching and research interests – sociology of medicine, medical 

research, medical education, ad medical ethics – have involved her in first-hand, participant 

observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly in Belgium), in Central Africa 

(especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and in the People’s Republic of China, as 

well as in the United States. She has lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools 

throughout the United States, and has taught in a number of universities abroad. During the 1996- 

1997 academic year, she was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. 

She is the author of seven books and numerous articles. Her best-known books are Experiment 

Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown; The Courage to Fail: A Social View of 

Organ Transplants and Dialysis, and Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society (both 

of which were written with medical historian Judith P. Swazey); and In the Belgian Château: The 

Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change. She has recently finished writing 

another book coauthored with Judith Swazey, tentatively entitled Observing Bioethics; and she is 

in the process of completing the sociological case study of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that 

she has been conducting since 1994, which is focused on the medical humanitarian and human 

rights witnessing and advocacy action in which MSF engages – its underlying ideology and 

value-commitments, the moral dilemmas it entails, and its unintended as well as intended 

consequences. 

Fox is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Institute of 

Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the 

Advancement of Science, and an Honorary Member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical 

Society. She is the holder of a Radcliffe Graduate School Medal, and of a Centennial Medal from 

the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, and a recipient of the American 

Sociological Association’s Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical

Sociology. She has received several teaching awards: an E. Harris Harbison Gifted Teaching 

Award of the Danforth Foundation, and a Lindback Foundation Award for Teaching at the 

University of Pennsylvania. She holds nine honorary degrees, and in 1995, she was named 

Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II by the Belgian Government. 

Roger Glass, MD, PhD 

Director, Fogarty International Center 

Associate Director for International Research, NIH 

Fogarty International Center 

National Institutes of Health 

Building 31, Room B2C29, 31 Center Drive - MSC 2220 

Bethesda, MD 20892-2220 

glassr@mail.nih.gov 

Dr. Glass was named Director of the Fogarty International Center and Associate Director for 

International Research by NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., on March 31, 2006. He 

formally took office on June 11, 2006. (An article profiling Dr. Glass appeared in the NIH Record 

on June 2, 2006.) Dr. Glass graduated from Harvard College in 1967, received a Fulbright 

Fellowship to study at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, and received his M.D. from 

Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1972. He 

joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 as a medical officer assigned to the 

Environmental Hazards Branch. He received his doctorate from the University of Goteborg, 

Sweden in 1984, and joined the National Institutes of Health Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, 

where he worked on the molecular biology of rotavirus. In 1986, Dr. Glass returned to the CDC 

to become Chief of the Viral Gastroenteritis Unit at the National Center for Infectious Diseases. 

Dr. Glass's research interests are in the prevention of gastroenteritis from rotaviruses and 

nonviruses through the application of novel scientific research. He has maintained field studies in 

India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Mexico, Israel, Russia, Vietnam, China and elsewhere. His research 

has been targeted toward epidemiologic studies to anticipate the introduction of rotavirus 

vaccines. He is fluent and often lectures in 5 languages. 

Dr. Glass has received numerous awards, including the Secretary’s Award for 

Distinguished Service (DHHS), the Outstanding Unit Citation from the National Center for 

Infectious Diseases, the Outstanding Service Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service, and a 

Commendation Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a member of the U.S. National 

Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Microbiology, the 

American Society of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

the American Society of Virology, and the American Epidemiological Society. Dr. Glass is also a 

fellow in the Infectious Disease Society and the American College of Epidemiology. Dr. Glass 

has co-authored more than 400 research papers and chapters. He is married to Barbara Stoll, M.D., 

the George W. Brumley, Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Emory 

University School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta 

at Egleston. He and his wife have three children. 

Jane Guyer, PhD 

Professor of Anthropology 

Johns Hopkins University 

404 Macaulay Hall 

3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 

jiguyer@jhu.edu

Jane I Guyer is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her fieldwork has 

concentrated in West Africa, from which she has published on the dynamics of economic change. 

One main track has been in the study of production, including household, community and 

regional ecological and market changes (Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon; Feeding 

African Cities; An African Niche Economy; and most recently a special issue of Human Ecology 

devoted to Time and African Land Use). Another track is in the history of money (Money Matters; 

Money Struggles and City Life; Marginal Gains). Her most recent and forthcoming publications 

relate to economic concepts in present-day public life: temporality, price, and the intelligibility of 

the market. 

Allan Hill, PhD 

Andelot Professor of Demography 

Harvard School of Public Health 

Bldg 1, 11th Flr 

665 Huntington Ave., 


Allan G. Hill has been the Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard University since 1991. 

He directs the Education Office of the Department of Population and International Health in the 

Harvard School of Public Health and teaches courses there on demography, measuring population 

health, reproduction and reproductive health and on the assessment of the impact of health 

programs. His work focuses on the health transitions and their determinants in the Arab world 

and West Africa. Research in Mali and The Gambia included studies of the impact of selected 

health interventions and of the factors supporting high fertility. He recently directed the 

Women’s Health Study of Accra whilst on leave at the University of Ghana 2002-4. He served as 

the Secretary-General of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population for eight 

years. He has served on the faculty of the School of Health Sciences, the American University of 

Beirut and the Medical School, University of Jordan, the Ghana School of Public Health and 

collaborates with the Social Research Center, American University in Cairo. In addition to his 

university career, Dr. Hill was for four years the first regional representative for the Population 

Council in the Middle East and North Africa based in Beirut and Amman. 

Richard Horton, MD 

Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet 

32 Jamestown Road 

London, NW1 7BY 

United Kingdom 

Richard.horton@lancet.com 

Richard Horton qualified in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1986. He completed 

his general medical training in Birmingham before moving to the liver unit at the Royal Free 

Hospital. In 1990, he joined The Lancet as an assistant editor and moved to New York as North 

American editor in 1993. Two years later he returned to the UK to become Editor-in-Chief. He 

was the first President of the World Association of Medical Editors, and is presently a member of 

the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. He is an honorary professor at the 

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Founder Fellow of the Academy of 

Medical Sciences. A book about controversies in modern medicine, Second Opinion, was 

published in 2003.

Steven Hyman, MD 

Provost, Harvard University 

Professor of Neurobiology 

University Hall, Harvard Yard 


steven_hyman@harvard.edu 

Steven E. Hyman, MD is Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at 

Harvard Medical School. From 1996 to 2001, he served as Director of the National Institute of 

Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the US National Institutes of Health charged with 

generating the knowledge needed to understand and treat mental illness. Before serving as 

Director of NIMH, Dr. Hyman was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director 

of Psychiatry Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the first faculty Director of 

Harvard University's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. In the laboratory he studied the 

regulation of gene expression by neurotransmitters, especially dopamine, and drugs that act on 

dopamine receptors. Dr. Hyman is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National 

Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of 

the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is Editor of the Annual Review of 

Neuroscience. He received his BA from Yale College in 1974 summa cum laude, and his MA 

from the University of Cambridge in 1976, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the 

history and philosophy of science. He earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1980 cum 

laude. 

Carel Ijsselmuiden, MD, MPH, FFCH 

Director, Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) 

COHREDc/o Ecumenical Centre/Centre Oecuménique 

1-5 Route des Morillons, 1211 

Geneva, Switzerland 

carel@cohred.ch 

Carel IJsselmuiden is Director of the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), 

an international non-governmental organisation with headquarters in Geneva. Its mission is to 

make research work for health and equity in low and middle-income countries. He was the 

founding Director of the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria, 

South Africa, until he joined COHRED in 2004. Prior to this, he worked in rural and urban public 

health in South Africa since 1980. He holds medical and public health qualifications, has 

published widely in several areas, and has received awards for his work in epidemiology and 

public health. His professional interests focus on capacity building, rural health and development, 

international health research ethics, epidemiology, environmental health and health research 

systems development in developing countries. He was the principal investigator and remains 

executive member of the Southern African Research Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI), which 

is funded through the Fogarty International Center of the NIH. He is adjunct professor in the 

School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, consults to the South 

African HIV/AIDS Vaccine Ethics Group (HAVEG), teaches an annual international research

ethics course at the University of KwaZulu Natal and at the Institute of Public Health at the 

Makerere University in Uganda. Prof IJsselmuiden is married and has 3 children. Since 2006, he 

is guiding the development of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research that is hosted at 

COHRED. 

Dean Jamison, PhD 

Professor of Health Economics 

Box 1224, 50 Beale Street 1200 

University of California, San Francisco 

San Francisco, CA. 94143 - 1224 

djamison@globalhealth.ucsf.edu 

In July 2006 Jamison became Professor of Development Economics at the University of 

California, San Francisco and, concurrently (for 2006-08) the T. & G. Angelopoulos Visiting 

Professor of Public Health and International Development in the Kennedy School of Government 

and the School of Public Health, Harvard University. Before joining the UCSF and Harvard 

faculties, Jamison had been at UCLA (1988-2006) and previously at the World Bank where he 

was a senior economist in the research department, division chief for education policy, and 

division chief for population, health and nutrition. In 1992-93 he temporarily rejoined the World 

Bank to serve as Director of the World Development Report Office and as lead author for the 

Bank’s 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health. His publications are in the areas 

of economic theory, public health and education. Jamison recently led the Disease Control 

Priorities Project, for which he was senior editor of Disease Control Priorities in Developing 

Countries, 2nd edition, and an editor of Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, both 

published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Jamison studied at Stanford (A.B., Philosophy; 

M.S., Engineering Sciences) and at Harvard (Ph.D., Economics, under K.J. Arrow). In 1994 he 

was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 

Jamison has served frequently on advisory groups to national and international organizations and 

currently chairs the Advisory Group on Economics, Finance and Impact for the World Health 

Organization’s Global Malaria Programme. 

Nancy Kass, Sc.D 

Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health 

Hampton House 344 

624 N. Broadway, 

Baltimore, MD 21205-1996 

nkass@jhsph.edu 

Nancy Kass, Sc.D is Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health at the Johns 

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of 

Bioethics. She also is a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown 

University, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. She received her B.A. from Stanford University, 

completed doctoral training in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and 

completed a postdoctoral fellowship in bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown 

University. Dr. Kass conducts empirical work in bioethics, public health, and health policy. Her 

publications are primarily in the fields of U.S. and international research ethics, public health 

ethics, HIV/AIDS policy, and genetics policy. She is coeditor (with Ruth Faden) of HIV, AIDS 

and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (Oxford University Press, 1996).

Gerald Keusch, MD 

Associate Dean, Global Health 

Associate Dean, Boston University School of Public Health 

Talbot, T443W 

715 Albany Street 


Dr. Keusch is Associate Provost for Global Health, Boston University, and Associate Dean for 

Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to this appointment, Dr. 

Keusch served as Director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health 

and Associate Director for International Research in the office of the NIH Director. A graduate of 

Columbia College and Harvard Medical School, he is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and 

Infectious Diseases. He has been involved in clinical medicine, teaching and research for his 

entire career, most recently as Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and 

Senior Attending Physician and Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious 

Diseases, at the New England Medical Center in Boston, MA. His research has ranged from the 

molecular pathogenesis of tropical infectious diseases to field research in nutrition, immunology, 

host susceptibility, and the treatment of tropical infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS. He was a 

Faculty Associate at Harvard Institute for International Development in the Health Office. Dr. 

Keusch is the author of over 300 original publications, reviews and book chapters, and he is the 

editor of 8 scientific books. He is the recipient of the Squibb, Finland and Bristol awards for 

research excellence of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has delivered numerous 

named lectures on topics of science and global health at leading institutions around the world. He 

is presently involved in international health research and policy with the NIH, the U.S. National 

Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, the United Nations, and the World Health 

Organization.

Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD 

Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights 

Chair, Department of Social Medicine 




kimj@hms.harvard.edu 

Jim Yong Kim holds appointments as François Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human 

Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine at 

Harvard Medical School. He is chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at 

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a major Harvard teaching hospital; director of the François 

Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; and chair of the Department of Social 

Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kim returned to Harvard in December 2005 after a 

three-year leave of absence at the World Health Organization (WHO). While on leave, Dr. Kim 

was director of the WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, a post he was appointed to in March 2004 

after serving as advisor to the WHO director-general. Dr. Kim oversaw all of WHO’s work 

related to HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives to help developing countries scale up their treatment, 

prevention, and care programs, including the “3x5” initiative designed to put three million people 

in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005. 

Dr. Kim has 20 years of experience in improving health in developing countries. He is a 

founding trustee and the former executive director of Partners In Health, a not-for-profit 

organization that supports a range of health programs in poor communities in Haiti, Peru, Russia, 

Rwanda, Lesotho, and the United States. An expert in tuberculosis, Dr. Kim has chaired or served 

on a number of committees on international TB policy. He has conducted extensive research into 

effective and affordable strategies for treating strains of TB that are resistant to standard drugs. 

While at WHO, Dr. Kim was responsible for coordinating HIV efforts with the TB department. 

Dr. Kim trained dually as a physician and medical anthropologist. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. 

from Harvard University. Dr. Kim has been recognized on numerous occasions as a global leader 

and distinguished professional, including being awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 

2003; being named one of America's 25 best leaders by US News & World Report in 2005; and 

being named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2006. 

He was a contributing editor to the 2003 and 2004 World Health Report, and his edited volume 

Dying for Growth: Global Inequity and the Health of the Poor analyzes the effects of economic 

and political change on health outcomes in developing countries. 

Arthur Kleinman, MD 

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology 

Chair, Department of Anthropology 

Harvard University 

Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry 


William James Hall Room 330 

33 Kirkland Street 

Cambridge, MA 02138 

kleinman@wjh.harvard.edu 

Arthur Kleinman is one of the world’s leading researchers in cross-cultural psychiatry and global 

mental health, and a major figure in medical anthropology and social medicine. Kleinman is the

Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, and Chair, Department of Anthropology, 

Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; from 1991 to 2000 he chaired Harvard Medical 

School’s Department of Social Medicine. Since 1968, Kleinman, who is both a psychiatrist and 

an anthropologist, has conducted research in Chinese society, first in Taiwan, and since 1978 in 

China, on depression, somatization, epilepsy, schizophrenia and suicide, and other forms of 

violence. Kleinman is the author of 6 books, editor or co-editor of 28 volumes and special issues 

of journals, and is author of more than 200 research and review articles and chapters. His chief 

publications are Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture; Social Origins of Distress and 

Disease: Neurasthenia, Depression and Pain in Modern China; The Illness Narratives; 

Rethinking Psychiatry; Culture and Depression; Social Suffering, and his most recent book, What 

Really Matters. 

Ron Labonté, PhD 

Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity 

Institute of Population Health 

University of Ottawa 

1 Stewart Street, Room 216B 

Ottawa, Ontario 

Canada 

rlabonte@uottawa.ca 

Ronald Labonté is Canada Research Chair in Globalization/Health Equity at the Institute of 

Population Health; Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; and Adjunct Professor, 

College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. Prof. Labonté’s current research activities 

include the impacts of contemporary globalization on the health of Canadians, global health 

ethics, health human resource migration (‘brain drain’), G8 health and development commitments, 

right to health assessment of trade agreements, revitalizing comprehensive primary health care, 

indicators of wellbeing and geospatial inequalities in health. He is a founding member of the 

Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, a past board member of provincial and national 

public and international health associations in Canada; and Chair of the Knowledge Network on 

Globalization for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. He is also active with 

the global civil society group, Peoples Health Movement. Among his recent books are Critical 

Public Health: A Reader, London: Routledge (2007); Health for Some: Death, Disease and 

Disparity in a Globalizing World, Toronto: Centre for Social Justice (2005) and Fatal 

Indifference: The G8 and Global Health. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press/IDRC 

Books (2004). 

Jim Lavery, PhD 

Research Scientist 

Centre for Research in Inner City Health 

Centre for Global Health Research 

St. Michael's Hospital 

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences and 

Joint Centre for Bioethics 

University of Toronto 

jim.lavery@utoronto.ca 

Jim Lavery is a research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health and Centre for 

Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of

Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lavery 

earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Medical Science and Centre for Bioethics at the 

University of Toronto and subsequently received a post-doctoral fellowship in applied ethics and 

health policy from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canadian Health 

Services Research Foundation, during which he studied priority-setting in home care in Canada at 

the Queen’s University Health Policy Research Unit. Most recently, Dr. Lavery spent three years 

at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland where he worked on ethical and 

regulatory issues in international research. In addition to his membership on the Interagency 

Advisory Panel on Research Ethics, he serves on the Advisory Board of the CIHR Institute of 

Infection and Immunity, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Public Responsibility in 

Medicine in Research. Dr. Lavery is currently the co-principal investigator of a project entitled 

Addressing Ethical, Social and Cultural Issues in the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, 

and is developing a project entitled A Brokered Dialogue Between the Rich and Poor. He has 

recently completed the editing, with colleagues at the NIH, of a book of case studies in 

international research ethics that will be published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. 

Graham Lister, PhD 

Senior Associate 

Judge Business School, University of Cambridge 

20 Bulstrode Way 

Gerrards Cross 

Bucks SL9 7QU 

UK 

G_C-Lister@msn.com 

Graham Lister is Senior Associate of Judge Business School, Cambridge and Visiting Professor 

in Health and Social Care at LSBU. He gained a doctorate for work on leadership and 

organisation behaviour. He has lived and worked in Africa and South East Asia and has advised 

on health policy and leadership in: the UK, Kenya, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Spain, Sweden, Italy, 

Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Oman. He directed The Nuffield Trust 

programme “Global Health: a Local Issue”, studies for the White Paper “Making Globalisation 

Work for the Poor” and published papers on UK and European Strategies for Global Health. He is 

secretary of the UK Partnership for Global Health and edits the web site at 

http://www.ukglobalhealth.org/ . He recently coauthored a paper with Ilona Kickbusch on 

“European Perspectives on Global Health”. Other current work includes: health policy futures 

for WHO, New South Wales and UK, the “Economic and Human Value of Public Health 

Intervention” for the National Consumers Council, “Building Leadership for Health” and 

“Knowledge Management for Public Health” with WHO. He is 61, married with two children. 

His life goal is to improve global health leadership and management as a contribution to a fairer, 

better society. 

Margaret Lock, PhD 

Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine 

Department of Anthropology, McGill University 

3647 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X1 

margaret.lock@mcgill.ca 

Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emeritus in Social Studies in Medicine, and is 

affiliated with the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of

Anthropology at McGill University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an 

Officier de L’Ordre national du Québec. Lock was awarded the Prix Du Québec, domaine 

Sciences Humaines in 1997 and in the same year the Wellcome Medal of the Royal 

Anthropological Society of Great Britain. In 2002 she received the Canada Council for the Arts 

Molson Prize, in 2005 the Canada Council for the Arts Killam Prize, and in the same year she 

was awarded a Trudeau Fellowship. She is the author of co-editor of 14 books and over 180 

articles. Her monographs Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North 

America and Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death have both won 

numerous awards. Her current research deals with the circulation of post-genomic knowledge 

among basic scientists, clinics, families, and society at large, with particular emphasis on the 

genetics of Alzheimer’s disease. 

Anita McGahan, MBA, PhD 

Everett Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar 

Boston University School of Management 

595 Commonwealth Avenue 


amcgahan@bu.edu 

Anita M McGahan is affiliate faculty at the Boston University Global Health Initiative, Everett 

Lord Scholar and Professor of Strategy & Policy at Boston University, visiting Professor at the 

London Business School, and a Senior Institute Associate at Harvard's Institute for Strategy and 

Competitiveness. Her credits include two books and over 60 articles and case studies on strategic 

issues of competitive advantage, industry evolution, and financial performance. She earned a 

PhD and MA in Business Economics from Harvard University in only two years with a 

dissertation entitled "Competition in new markets." She has professional experience at Morgan 

Stanley and McKinsey & Company and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School with high 

distinction as a Baker Scholar. Between 2004 and 2006, McGahan served as an advisor to the 

senior leadership team at Partners In Health. 

Richard Parker, PhD 

Professor and Chair, Department of Sociomedical Sciences 

Mailman School of Public Health 

Columbia University 

HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies 

1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 15 

New York, NY 10032 

rgp11@columbia.edu 

Richard Parker is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and 

Director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health in the Mailman School of Public Health, 

as well as Director of the International Core for the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral 

Studies, at Columbia University. His research has focused on the social and cultural construction 

of gender and sexuality, the social aspects of HIV/AIDS, and the relationship between social 

inequality, health and disease within the context of globalization. His major publications include 

Bodies, Pleasures and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil (Boston: Beacon Press, 

1991), Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay 

Communities in Brazil (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), Framing the Sexual Subject: 

The Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Power (edited, with Regina Barbosa and Peter Aggleton,

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), Culture, Society and Sexuality, 

revised edition (edited, with Peter Aggleton, 2007), and Sexuality, Health and Human Rights 

(with Sonia Corrêa and Rosalind Petchesky, in press). He is a Founding Editor of the journal, 

Culture, Health and Sexuality and Editor-in-Chief of Global Public Health, which began 

publication in January of 2006. 

Adriana Petryna, PhD 

Associate Professor of Anthropology 

University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences 

Department of Anthropology 

University Museum Rm. 323 

3260 South Street 


petryna@sas.upenn.edu 

Adriana Petryna is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She 

received a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores 

the cultural and political workings of the life sciences in contexts of crisis in the former Soviet 

Union, and the scientific practices and ethical norms guiding U.S.-based pharmaceutical 

research. Her book, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, describes the biological 

and social aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster as it shaped citizenship claims and new patterns of 

inequality in an emerging nation. She is also co-editor of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, 

Knowledge, Practices (with Arthur Kleinman and Andrew Lakoff) which explores markets and 

cultures of therapeutic access in rich and poor settings, with a specific focus on anti-depressants 

and anti-HIV drugs. Her current work on clinical trial offshoring addresses patient protection and 

accountability at the nexus of private-sector science and public health. 

Jennifer Ruger, PhD 

Co-Director, 

Yale/WHO Collaborating Center for Health Promotion, Policy and Research 

Assistant Professor 

Yale University School of Public Health 

60 College Street 

P.O. Box 208034 

New Haven, CT 06520.8034 

jennifer.ruger@yale.edu 

Dr. Ruger is Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre 

for Health Promotion, Policy and Research and an Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core 

Investigator for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. She has authored numerous 

theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, 

resource allocation, policy reform and the social determinants of health. These contributions are 

unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on 

vulnerable and impoverished populations, especially those with addictions. Her work has been 

published in Lancet; American Journal of Public Health; British Medical Journal; Quarterly 

Journal of Medicine; Academic Emergency Medicine; Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities; 

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 

She served previously at the World Bank as health economist and speechwriter to president James

D. Wolfensohn and on the health and development satellite secretariat of WHO Director-General 

Gro Harlem Brundtland’s Transition Team. 

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, PhD 

Professor of Medical Anthropology 

305 Kroeber Hall 

University of California, Berkeley 

Berkeley, CA 94720 

Email: nsh@berkeley.edu 

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is a professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, 

Berkeley where she also directs Organs Watch. She is best known for her ethnographies: Saints, 

Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland and Death without Weeping: the 

Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, both published by California Press. Her essays on everyday 

violence and the body, hunger, illness and its doubles, madness, suffering, small wars and 

invisible genocides constitute a 'militant' and politically engaged anthropology. She has published 

on AIDS/HIV in Brazil and Cuba, human rights, Brazilian death squads, apartheid and popular 

justice in South African squatter camps, and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, coining or 

popularizing such terms as the "mindful body" (1987, with Margaret Lock), "political economy 

of the emotions" (1993) "life boat ethics" (1993), "sexual citizenship"(1994), "genocidal 

continuum" (2001a); "neo-cannibalism" (2001b). Since 1997 Scheper-Hughes has been 

conducting multi-sited field research in many countries on the traffic in human organs, tracking 

the movements of people and organs as well as the global inequities that facilitate this trade. 

Currently she is Vera N. Schuyler Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

where she is completing her next book: The Ends of the Body: the Global Traffic in Human 

Organs. 

Ted Schrecker, MA 

Associate Professor 

Institute of Population Health 

University of Ottawa 

1 Stewart Street, Room 216A 

Ottawa, Ontario 

Canada 

tschreck@uottawa.ca 

Ted Schrecker is a scientist with the rank of Associate Professor in the University of Ottawa’s 

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, and a principal scientist at the 

University’s Institute of Population Health. A political scientist by background, he has a special 

interest in understanding how globalization affects public policy by way of the changes it 

generates in domestic political economy, class structure and political allegiances. Prof. Schrecker 

is a co-author of Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (IDRC Books/University 

of Cape Town Press, 2004) and numerous related publications on globalization and health; and 

has also published widely on environmental policy and law. He contributed to Global Health 

Watch, the first annual alternative health report. He has also acted as Hub coordinator for the 

Globalization Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health; 

the Network is based at the Institute of Population Health.

Nelson Sewankambo, MD 

Dean and Professor of Medicine 

Faculty of Medicine 

Makerere University 

Kampala, Uganda 

sewankam@infocom.co.ug 

Dr. Sewankambo, MBChB, MMED, MSc is Dean of Medicine at Makerere University in 

Kampala, Uganda, Co-Chair of the Academic Alliance and Principal Investigator (PI) of the 

Rakai Project. Dr. Sewankambo was among the first scientists to publish data on AIDS in Africa. 

He was instrumental in starting the AIDS Clinic at Mulago hospital. Dr. Sewankambo managed 

the Clinic until he became Associate Dean in mid '90s. He was founding Director of the Clinical 

Epidemiology Unit, and a co-PI on the Canadian IDRC-funded behavioral and qualitative 

research on AIDS Prevention. He is a member of the population-based studies working group of 

the African AIDS Vaccine Programme. Dr. Sewankambo has served on numerous local and 

international advisory boards including the Working Party on the Ethics of Clinical Research in 

Developing Countries of the Nuffield Council for Bioethics, the Global Research Ethics Forum of 

the NIH, the WHO African Advisory Committee on Health and Research Development 

(AACHRD), and the Board of Directors of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network 

(INCLEN). 

Jon Simon, MPH, D.Sc 

Director, Center for International Health and Development 

Boston University School of Public Health 

715 Albany St 


jonsimon@bu.edu 

Jonathon Lee Simon, M.P.H., D.Sc., is the Chair of the Department of International Health, 

Director of the Center for International Health, and an Associate Professor of International Health 

at the BUSPH. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley 

in Conservation and Resource Studies. His MPH is also from UC Berkeley. Dr. Simon received 

his Doctorate of Science from the Harvard University School of Public Health, having completed 

dissertation research on the changing demography of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been involved 

in applied child health research activities for 15 years, working in more than twenty developing 

countries. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Simon was a Fellow of the Harvard Institute for 

International Development, where he was Principal Investigator for a large multi-country applied 

research project. During his tenure at HIID, he was resident in Pakistan for two years as the 

regional advisor. Dr. Simon has had extensive experience working in Africa, particularly on 

issues including child survival, infectious diseases, and capacity strengthening. He has recently 

been involved in a new area of research, evaluating the economic impact of the HIV/AIDS 

epidemic on sectors of the African economy.

Kearsley Stewart, PhD 

Senior Lecturer 

Department of Anthropology 

Northwestern University 

1810 Hinman Avenue 

Evanston, IL 60208-1310 

kstewart@northwestern.edu 

Kearsley A. Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at Northwestern University in 

Chicago and is currently a David Bell Fellow at the Center for Population and Development 

Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health (2005-2007). She joined Northwestern University 

in 2000 and teaches courses on HIV/AIDS, Global Health Theory, Global Bioethics, Medical 

Anthropology, and Africa. Stewart was a member of the 2002 inaugural group of the Fulbright 

New Century scholars. Her Fulbright project was an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS clinical 

trial from the perspective of the study participants in rural Uganda. From 1999-2002, Stewart was 

a consulting medical anthropologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta 

on a project to study adherence of newly-diagnosed HIV patients to anti-retroviral treatment. Her 

dissertation work, on adolescent HIV voluntary testing and counseling in Uganda, was supported 

by grants from NIMH and NSF, and findings led to a change in national policy, which extended 

VTC to rural areas and youth. Her work on HIV/AIDS, VTC, and research ethics in Africa has 

appeared in Africa Today, Human Rights Review, and will appear in Social Science and Medicine. 

She is also working on a full-length documentary of the revival of glass bead production in Ghana. 

Strom Thacker, PhD 

Associate Professor of International Relations 

Director, Latin American Studies Program 

Boston University 

152 Bay State Road, Room 446 


sthacker@bu.edu 

Professor Thacker’s research and teaching focus broadly on questions of political economy and 

development, with particular emphasis on Mexico and Latin America, the North American Free 

Trade Agreement (NAFTA), governance and human development. His books include Big 

Business, the State, and Free Trade: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico (Cambridge University 

Press, 2000), and Good Government: A Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (under 

review, with John Gerring). He is currently working on a project on the long-term relationship 

between democracy and development, and another on the politics of public health. He has 

published articles in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political 

Science, Business and Politics, International Organization, the Journal of Interamerican Studies 

and World Affairs, and World Politics. He also has an ongoing interest in the politics of foreign 

aid and lending, and the International Monetary Fund. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the David 

Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and a Fellow at the 

Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. He 

has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, a Susan Louise 

Dyer Peace Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fulbright Scholar. He has 

also received research grants funded by BU’s SPRInG program, BU’s Pardee Center, the Mellon 

Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the University of North Carolina. He taught at the 

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) before his appointment to Boston University.

He is also the Director of Latin American Studies at Boston University. Areas of expertise: 

International and comparative political economy, governance, development, Latin American 

Studies, Mexican political economy and politics 

Daniel Wikler, PhD 

Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics 

Harvard School of Public Health 

Bldg 1, 13FL, Population & Int'l Health 

665 Huntington Ave. 


wikler@hsph.harvard.edu 

Daniel Wikler, Ph.D., is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics in the Department of 

Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as the first 

“staff ethicist” at the World Health Organization in Geneva, working with WHO health programs 

on ethical issues arising in departments throughout the organization, including health resource 

allocation, research involving human subjects, and genetics. While at WHO, Professor Wikler 

directed an international collaboration among philosophers and economists on ethical, 

methodological, and philosophical issues raised by WHO’s work in measurement of the global 

burden of disease and in developing methods for improving health resource allocation. At 

Harvard, Prof. Wikler joined with colleagues across the campus in creating the Harvard Program 

in Ethics and Health, a university-wide program that focuses on ethical issues involving health 

that arise at the population and international levels. Prof. Wikler was co-founder and second 

president of the International Association of Bioethics, which places particular emphasis on 

developing countries, and of the American Association of Bioethics. He has been Honorary 

Fellow in the Bioethics Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking Union 

Medical College, and fellow of the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, 

and the Leverhulme Trust. Prof. Wikler has served on the advisory boards of the Asian Bioethics 

Association and the Pan American Health Organization Regional Program in Bioethics. His 

published work addresses many issues in bioethics, focusing in recent years has focused on 

population health, including issues resource allocation, and global public health.

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