Noncommunicable Diseases in the Developing World: Addressing Gaps in Global Policy and Research

List of Contributors

Contributors George Alleyne Sir George Alleyne, a native of Barbados, became director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), Regional Office of the World Health Organization on February 1, 1995, and completed a second four-year term on January 31, 2003. In 2003 he was elected director emeritus of the PASB. From February 2003 until December 2010 he was the UN secretary general’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. In October 2003 he was appointed chancellor of the University of the West Indies. He currently holds an adjunct professorship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Alleyne has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including prestigious decorations and national honors from many countries in the Americas. In 1990, he was made knight bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to medicine. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of the Caribbean Community, the highest honor that can be conferred on a Caribbean national. Louis Galambos Louis Galambos is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and codirector of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. He has taught at Rice University, Rutgers University, and Yale University and has served as president of the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association. A former editor of the Journal of Economic History, Professor Galambos has written extensively on U.S. business history, on business-government relations, on the economic aspects of modern institutional development in America, and on the rise of the bureaucratic state. His central interest for some years has been the process of innovation in public, nonprofit, and private organizations. His most recent book is The Creative Society—and the Price Americans Paid for It (2012). Galambos also teaches a popular undergraduate course, “Global Public Health since World War II.” One viii Contributors of the focal points of the course is the transition from support for healthcare systems in the developing world to support for disease-specific policies. Stuart Gilmour Stuart Gilmour has 15 years’ experience of research in global health. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health Policy at the University of Tokyo. Before coming to Japan, Mr. Gilmour was a research fellow in the UK’s leading health policy think tank, the King’s Fund. Originally from Australia, he worked as a statistician researching legal and illicit drug policy in Australia, where he helped to establish the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. He has published on a diverse range of health topics, including the epidemiology of drug use, mental health, HIV and other infectious diseases, and health financing in developing nations. Felicia Marie Knaul Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, where she serves as the codirector of the Secretariat for the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, an initiative she helped to found in 2009 and for which she is lead author of the book Closing the Cancer Divide, released in 2012 by Harvard University Press. She is also a senior economist at the Mexican Health Foundation, where she has led a research group focused on health and the economy since 2000. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, she founded the Mexican nonprofit Tómatelo a Pecho to promote research and advocacy initiatives in Latin America. Dr. Knaul has held senior government posts in Mexico and Colombia and has worked for bilateral and multilateral agencies, including WHO, the World Bank, and UNICEF. She is a board member of numerous organizations, including the Union for International Cancer Control, and is author of more than 130 academic and policy publications. Margaret E. Kruk Dr. Margaret E. Kruk is an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Kruk’s research focuses on health system effectiveness and population preferences for healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania, Ethiopia, Liberia, and Ghana. She has published on women’s preferences for maternal healthcare, health systems effectiveness, healthcare financing, and evaluation of large-scale health programs in low-income countries. Previously, Dr. Kruk was an assistant professor Contributors ix in health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and policy advisor for health at the Millennium Project, an advisory...