Who We Are:

Scientific Advisory Council

Robert E. Black, MD, MPH
Edgar Berman Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health and Director of the Institute for International Programs
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA

Trained in medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology, he has worked as a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and in Bangladesh and Peru on research related to childhood infectious diseases and nutritional problems. His current research includes field trials of vaccines, micronutrients, and other nutritional interventions; effectiveness studies of health programs; and evaluation of preventive and curative health programs in low- and middle-income countries. His other interests are related to the use of evidence in policy and programs, including estimates of burden of disease, development of research capacity, and strengthening of public health training.

As a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) and advisory bodies of the World Health Organization, the International Vaccine Institute, and other international organizations, he assists policy development to improve child health. He chairs the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group and the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative. He currently has projects in Bangladesh, Benin, Ghana, India, Mali, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal, Zanzibar, and Zimbabwe. Dr. Black has written more than 400 scientific journal publications and is co-editor of the textbook International Public Health.

Gary L. Darmstadt, MD
Senior Program Officer for neonatal health in Integrated Health Solutions Development, Global Health Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
USA

In this position, Dr. Darmstadt leads the neonatal health components of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health strategy. Previously, he was Associate Professor and Founding Director of the International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He was Assistant Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Washington and then served as Senior Research Adviser for Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children-US. In this position, he led development and implementation of the global research strategy for newborn health and survival.

Dr. Darmstadt’s training and experience spans from state-of-the-art basic laboratory science to field-based operations research in low-income countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As a member of the Steering Committee of The Lancet Neonatal Survival Series, he was instrumental in identifying cost-effective interventions and feasible strategies for delivering these interventions in countries to avert newborn deaths. He has authored more than 200 original research and review articles, book chapters, clinical analyses, editorials, and policy briefs. His research program is focused on developing, testing, and introducing innovative strategies for the prevention, detection, and management of serious newborn illness, particularly infections, improving family and community-based newborn care, and optimizing child developmental outcomes in low-resource settings around the world.

Christopher J. Elias, MD, MPH
President & CEO
Programs for Appropriate Technologies in Health
USA

Dr. Elias is president of PATH, an international, non-profit, nongovernmental organization based in Seattle, WA. PATH — which is supported by foundations, the U.S. and other governments, multilateral agencies, corporations, and individuals—creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions that enable communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. As president, Dr. Elias is responsible for PATH’s strategic, programmatic, financial, and management operations. PATH has worked in more than 100 countries in the areas of health technologies, maternal and child health, reproductive health, vaccines and immunization, and emerging and epidemic diseases. Prior to joining PATH, Dr. Elias was a Senior Associate in the International Programs Division of the Population Council. For six years, he served as the Country Representative in Thailand, where he managed reproductive health programs throughout Southeast Asia.

Mahmoud F. Fathalla, MD
Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and former Dean of the Medical School
Assiut University
Egypt

During his long career in global health, Dr. Fathalla has served as Chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Advisory Committee on Health Research; as Director of the UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Program of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction; as Senior Adviser for Biomedical and Reproductive Health Research and Training for the Rockefeller Foundation; and as President of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He was also Chairman of the PATH Board of Directors.

Dr. Fathalla has written more than 150 scientific publications. He served as editor of the 1994 World Report on Women's Health. He is author of From Obstetrics and Gynecology to Women's Health—The Road Ahead, published in 1997, and as co-author of Reproductive Health and Human Rights—Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law (2003) and of A Practical Guide for Health Researchers (2004).

Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Council on Foreign Relations
USA

Ms. Garrett is an expert on global health with a particular focus on newly emerging and re-emerging diseases and public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security. She is the only writer ever to be awarded all three of journalism’s “Big Ps: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. At the Council on Foreign Relations, Garrett has written several reports and articles including “HIV and National Security: Where Are the Links? A Council Report (2005) and three articles for Foreign Affairs: “The Next Pandemic? and “The Lessons of HIV/AIDS (July/August 2005); and “The Challenge of Global Health (January/February 2007).

Garrett began reporting on science news for a California Bay Area radio station, followed by a short period working for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, assessing the human health impacts of pesticide use. She then spent time overseas, living and working in southern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and freelance reporting for Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, BBC-Radio, Reuters, Associated Press, and others. She has worked for National Public Radio and Newsday and has been a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health. Garrett is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and she served as the organization’s President during the mid-1990s. She currently serves on the advisory board for the Noguchi Prize, François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Health Worker Global Policy Advisory Group.

Robert L. Goldenberg, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director of Research in the Department of OB-GYN
Drexel University College of Medicine
USA

Dr. Goldenberg served as Director of the Department of Maternal and Child Health within the Alabama State Department of Public Health from 1977 to 1981. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine. and during 1998-2002, he chaired the IOM Pediatrics/OB-GYN section. He is a member of the IOM Committee on Improving Birth Outcomes in Developing Countries.

Dr. Goldenberg has published more than 440 journal articles and has extensive experience in working on multicenter research networks. He was the first Chair of the NIH U.S.–India Collaborative Research Program in Maternal and Child Health. He was a principal investigator of the March of Dimes Prematurity Prevention Study and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-funded study of risk factors for fetal growth retardation. He was the principal investigator on both the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Network’s Preterm Prediction Study and the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research’s Low Birthweight Patient Outcomes Research Team. For the past 13 years he has directed the National Program Office on Smoking in Pregnancy for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is also principal investigator for the Drexel/Aga Khan University site for the Gates/NICHD Global Network. He chairs the NICHD Stillbirth Network and the Section on HIV Perinatal Transmission for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-funded IMPAACT Network.


William H. Foege Chair
Department of Global Health
University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD
USA

Dr. Holmes became the first William H. Foege Chair of the University of Washington Department of Global Health in November 2006. He is the founding director of the UW Center for AIDS and STD, a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization. Since 1968, he has served on the University of Washington faculties of medicine, microbiology, and epidemiology, based at Harborview Medical Center.

Dr. Holmes was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and served in several service leadership positions during 1969-1983. He has won numerous national and international awards for his research and training in infectious diseases. He has also mentored more than 100 pre- and post-doctoral trainees—more than 90% of whom have gone on to academic, governmental, or inter-government-agency research or leadership positions—as well as more than 30 pre-doctoral and MPH/MSPH trainees.

Alan H. Jobe, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
USA

Dr. Jobe was the Chair of the Steering Committee for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network for 10 years and recently was a member of the NICHD Advisory Council. He was the President of the Society for Pediatric Research and presently is Secretary/Treasurer of the American Pediatrics Society. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Dr. Jobe is a practicing neonatologist and investigator with current research interests in lung development in the preterm, lung injury, and fetal exposures to infection/inflammation. A focus is the fetal response to Ureaplasma and its association with preterm labor, fetal immune programming, and newborn outcomes. Past research activities include participation in the development of surfactant therapy for the treatment of preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome and the use of maternal corticosteroid treatments to improve outcomes of preterm infants. He teaches worldwide with Ipocrates and consults for infant outcome projects in Argentina. He is a frequent consultant for the National Institute of Child Health and Development and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. He has published over 400 primary research reports, chapters, and editorials and is an Editor for Journal of Pediatrics.

Michael Katz, MD
Senior Vice President for Research and Global Programs
March of Dimes Foundation
USA

Dr. Katz he has worked at March of Dimes Foundation since 1992. He was the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, Professor of Public Health in the faculty of medicine, and Director of Pediatric Service at Babies Hospital, a Division of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He has retained these titles as an emeritus.

Dr. Katz is a pediatrician with the clinical specialty of infectious diseases, and his scientific contributions have been in fields of neurovirology and parasitology. His current efforts in the foundation focus on supporting research that addresses birth defects and reproductive health, with special emphasis on preterm birth.

Mark A. Klebanoff, MD, MPH
Senior Investigator, Epidemiology
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
USA

Dr. Klebanoff was division director from 1998 to 2008. His research interests span a broad range of topics in perinatal epidemiology. In particular, he has focused on the association between genital tract infections and preterm birth. He has collaborated on numerous randomized clinical trials of the use of antibiotics to prevent preterm birth as well as the use of 17-alphahydroxyprogesterone caproate to prevent recurrent preterm birth. Dr. Klebanoff has also pursued research on the intergenerational association of pregnancy outcomes, and he was among the first to demonstrate that a woman's own size at birth is a predictor of the size of her children. The author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, he has served as President of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research and is the reproductive and perinatal editor of The American Journal of Epidemiology.

Michael S. Kramer, MD
James McGill Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McGill University School of Medicine
Canada

Dr. Kramer has been a National Health Research Scholar and National Health Research Scientist of Health for Canada's National Health Research and Development Program, a Chercheur-boursier senior (senior research scientist) of the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, and a Distinguished Scientist of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He has been principal investigator on several large, multi-center epidemiologic studies and randomized trials in the area of maternal and child health. A member of four expert committees of the U.S. Institute of Medicine, Dr. Kramer in 1997-1998 served as President of the Society of Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research. During 1995-2001, he chaired the Steering Committee of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, and until 2003, chaired the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR's Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health. He currently serves as the Institute's scientific director.

Dr. Kramer has written or co-authored 20 books and monographs and has published nearly 300 original articles. His systematic review of the evidence on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding led directly to new infant feeding recommendations by WHO and the World Health Assembly. His current principal areas of research are the causes and prevention of preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction, the determinants of fetal and infant mortality, and the long-term child health effects of breastfeeding.

Eve M. Lackritz, MD
Chief of the Maternal and Infant Health Branch
Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
USA

Dr. Lackritz provides oversight of CDC’s research and program activities in the area of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in the United States and developing countries.

Dr. Lackritz joined CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1988 and spent her first five years with the Malaria Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, where she conducted collaborative investigations of malaria, anemia, child survival, and blood safety in Africa. She served for the next 10 years with CDC’s HIV/AIDS programs, first with domestic and international blood safety, then as the Assistant Chief for Science of the International Activities Branch, and finally as Chief of the AIDS Treatment and Care Branch, Global AIDS Program. Her responsibilities included providing scientific leadership, review, and guidance of CDC’s international HIV/AIDS activities, including epidemiology, laboratory investigations, clinical trials, and prevention and treatment programs.

Vinod K. Paul, MD, PhD, FAMS, FIAP, FNNF
Professor of Pediatrics, head of the Division of Neonatalogy
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Newborn Care
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
India

As part of his doctoral research, Dr. Paul conducted a series of studies on elucidating the association with low birth weight of infectious agents such as Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, and Chlamydia trachomatis. He established India’s National Neonatal-Perinatal Database Network, an 18-center research conglomerate of leading institutions. His current research interest is in the area of newborn health care delivery in the community.

Dr. Paul has written more than 200 publications and is one of the authors of The Lancet Neonatal Survival series. He was instrumental in launching the neonatal resuscitation programs in India, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Sri Lanka and in developing the maternal and child health strategy of India’s national maternal and child health program. In 2001, Dr. Paul worked at the World Health Organization, on assignment with the department of Child and Adolescent Health. He has been a temporary adviser to WHO on newborn health areas. He was also the Senior Policy Adviser to Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children in 2002-2004 and a member of the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health during 2005-2005. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; and of the Indo-US Joint Working group on Maternal and Child Health Research.

Ellen Piwoz , ScD, MHS
Senior Program Officer
Integrated Health Solutions Development Division
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
USA

Dr. Ellen Piwoz is predominantly focused on research and integrated strategies to improve nutrition in women and children. Prior to joining the foundation in 2007, Dr. Piwoz was Director of the Center for Nutrition at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, D.C., a position in which she directed the Sustainable Approaches to Nutrition in Africa Project and was the senior nutrition adviser for the Support for Analysis and Research in Africa and Africa’s Health in 2010 projects, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Dr. Piwoz has more than 25 years of experience working on nutrition issues in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with a recent focus on nutrition and HIV/AIDS research in Africa. From 1999 to 2003, she was a principal investigator in the Zimbabwe Vitamin A for Mothers and Babies Infant Feeding and HIV transmission study, and she has consulted on similar studies in Zambia, Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa. During 2000-2007, she was a co-investigator on the Malawi Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral, and Nutrition Clinical Trial to assess the impact of nutrition and antiretroviral drug interventions on maternal health and HIV transmission during breastfeeding. During 2003-2007, she served on the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Nutrition and HIV/AIDS and the Inter-agency Task Team for Prevention of Mother-to Child HIV Transmission.

Pang Ruyan, MD, MPH
Visiting Professor of Public Health
Peking University
China

A pediatrician (20 years experience of pediatric clinical practice, specialized in neonatal care and NICU, as well as teaching and researches ) and a public health expert, with 15 years national (Deputy Director-General of MCH Department, Ministry of Health, China) and international (Regional Advisor in Reproductive Health, WHO/WPRO) experience in the management of Safe Motherhood and reproductive health programs.

As a member of Chinese delegation, joined the development of Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development and participated in the meeting (Cairo 1994). As member of Secretariat of Chinese Government for the Fourth World Conference on Women, organized the NGO’s forum on Women and Health (Beijing, 1995). As resource person (facilitator) attended the Safe Motherhood Technical Consultation (Colombo, 1997). As the principle organizer and responsible officer, organized three bi-regional (South East Asia and Western Pacific region) workshops on: the progress of maternal mortality reduction (Manila, 2003); consultation on integrating prevention and management of STI/HIV/AIDS into reproductive, maternal and newborn health service (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006) and accelerating action for improving the sexual and reproductive health of young people (Manila 2007).

Dr. Ruyan retired from WHO in 2007 and she is a visiting professor in School of Public Health, Peking University now. Before she joined WHO, she was Chairperson of Chinese Association of Child Health Care (1994-1998); member of the Board, Chinese Association of Family; member of Member of Chinese Pediatric Association; Vice Editor in charge of Chinese Journal of Maternal and Child Health and Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. As major organizer and responsible officer, organized and published 11 WHO/WPRO publications on Safe Motherhood, adolescent reproductive health, and Child nutrition, etc. She also was the principle author to develop Regional (Western Pacific Region) Strategy on Making Pregnancy Safer and was the responsible officer to develop A framework for Accelerating Action for the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young people (Western Pacific Region).

Peter Salama, MD, MPH
Global Chief of Health
UNICEF
USA

Dr. Salama is the Global Chief of Health for UNICEF operations worldwide. Prior to his appointment to lead the Health Section in the end of 2006, Dr. Salama was responsible for Child Survival and Immunization Programs. Before moving to New York, he was the principal adviser for HIV/AIDS in Africa for USAID, where as a member of the senior management team of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, he helped put pediatric HIV and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV high on the agenda of the plan.

During 2002-2004, Dr. Salama was responsible for UNICEF’s Health and Nutrition Programs in Afghanistan. Together with the interim government, World Bank, and other partners, he helped write the country’s new health policy focusing on maternal and child health. Dr. Salama contributed to implementation of a new performancebased system for providing health services across the country that achieved a nearly 20% decline in infant mortality in the last three years. Before joining UNICEF, he was had a visiting professor at Tufts University and visiting scientist at the CDC International Emergencies Branch, where he responded to crises in Kosovo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone.

Jacqueline Sherris, PhD
Vice President, Program Strategy and Impact
Programs for Appropriate Technologies in Health
USA

Dr. Sherris oversees PATH’s global programs and facilitates articulation of program strategies, fosters program collaboration and synergy, models management and performance leadership, and ensures effective program planning, evaluation, and impact assessment across the organization. Dr. Sherris also serves on PATH’s Executive Leadership Team and represents PATH domestically and internationally.

Dr. Sherris has more than 20 years of experience in public health. From 2002 to 2007, she served as PATH’s program leader for the Reproductive Health Strategic Program, through which she led and expanded PATH’s cervical cancer prevention work, including efforts to increase access to human papillomavirus vaccines in developing countries. Other areas of reproductive health work that grew under her leadership include contraceptive supply security, pharmacists and reproductive health, technologies and interventions for women dealing with the consequences of unprotected sex, and integration of family planning and HIV and AIDS services. Prior to taking on the reproductive health program leader responsibilities, she led various reproductive health projects and programs at PATH.

Before joining PATH in 1987, Dr. Sherris coordinated the University of Washington’s Academic Programs for Teachers and was a staff associate with the Population Information Program at The Johns Hopkins University, where she authored several issues of Populations Reports.

A frequent author on international health, women’s health, and cervical cancer prevention in the developing world, she is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine and serves on the External Advisory Board of that school.

Dr. Sherris received her MS in biology and her PhD in science education from Purdue University.

F. Bruder Stapleton, MD
Associate Dean, University of Washington School of Medicine
Chief Academic Officer
Seattle Children's
USA

Dr. Stapleton is the Ford/Morgan Endowed Chair and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Dean at the University of Washington School of Medicine, as well as the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President at Seattle Children’s.

Dr. Stapleton received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Kansas. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of Washington and Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, Washington. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in pediatric nephrology at the University of Kansas and served for two years in the U.S. Navy as a pediatric nephrologist at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, California. Dr. Stapleton joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee as Assistant Professor in 1979. He rose to the rank of Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology in 1984. While at the University of Tennessee, he founded a pediatric General Clinical Research Center and served as its program director and the Director of Research at the LeBonheur Children's Hospital. In 1989, Dr. Stapleton moved to Buffalo, New York, where he served as the A. Conger Goodyear Chair of the Department of Pediatrics as well as the Pediatrician-in-Chief and Medical Director for the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Dr. Stapleton assumed his responsibilities in Seattle in 1996.

Dr. Stapleton is Immediate Past-President of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs and Head of the Data Safety Monitoring Board for the National Study of Kidney Disease in Children for the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK). He has served as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, Assistant Secretary-General and Treasurer of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association, President of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research, and Chairman of the Sub-Board of Pediatric Nephrology of the American Board of Pediatrics. Recently he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics and now chairs the ABP Subspecialties Committee. He is on the Executive Council of the American Pediatric Society, has been a previous member of the Council of Pediatric Research for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

José Villar, MD, MSC, MPH, FRCOG
Senior Fellow in Perinatal Medicine
Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Oxford, UK
England

Dr Villar specializes in obstetrics, gynecology, and perinatology. He was Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins University until 1984. At WHO, he has served as Director of the Division of Nutrition and Health at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama; Medical Officer and Manager, Americas Region, Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction; and Coordinator for Maternal and Perinatal Health in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research of WHO, Geneva.

Dr. Villar has authored 180 original scientific publications, book chapters, and systematic reviews. He is currently Senior Fellow in Perinatal Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, where he is principal investigator of multi-centre studies exploring the relationship between mode of delivery and pregnancy outcomes, fetal and preterm growth patterns and the factors affecting them, and screening tests for pre-eclampsia and the effect of vitamins E and C for the prevention of pre-eclampsia. He is also the Senior Adviser of the 2007 WHO Asian Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health and the WHO Reproductive Health Library, the electronic review journal that is based on Cochrane Systematic Reviews of reproductive health.

Severin von Xylander, MD
Medical Officer
Department of Making Pregnancy Safer
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics
Department of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
USA

Dr. Wikler is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of 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. Other Harvard affiliations include the Harvard Ph.D. Program in Health Policy, The Harvard Center for Ethics, and the Harvard Program in Ethical Issues in International Health Research.

Prof. Wikler was co-founder and second president of the International Association of Bioethics, which places particular emphasis on developing countries, and President 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. His published work addresses many issues in bioethics, focusing in recent years on population health, including ethical issues in resource allocation and in global public health. Along with three fellow philosophers, he is author of From Chance to Choice: Genes and Justice, published by Cambridge University Press.


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