Biographical Information: Speakers and Performers

Barry E. Ballow has been Director, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State since 1994. In that capacity, he provides overall supervision of the global Fulbright Exchange Program as well as for Congressionally mandated educational exchange programs for East/Central Europe, Eurasia and other areas of the world.

Mr. Ballow has had a variety of supervisory assignments in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Bureau of Management. He has also served in the Bureau of African Affairs and the Department of the Interior. His overseas assignments have been in Morocco, Cameroon, Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), and the Republic of the Congo.

Mr. Ballow was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, serving with the office of Congressman Donald Fraser and with the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Bryna Brennan is the Chief of the Office of Public Information for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. She oversees PAHO's public relations, media affairs, graphics, video documentaries, public service announcements, the newsletter PAHO Today and the magazine Perspectives in Health.

Ms. Brennan obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University with a major in journalism and a Master's degree in International Public Policy from the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. Before joining PAHO in 1995, Ms. Brennan work for The Associated Press across Latin America.

Jack C. Chow serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State. He also serves as the Secretary of State's Special Representative for HIV/AIDS and holds the rank of ambassador in this capacity. Dr. Chow previously served at the State Department as the Senior Advisor for Global Health Policy to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. He was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, a staff member on both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees of the U.S. Congress, a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, an Assistant Director for International Relations at the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center, and a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. A medical doctor, Dr. Chow trained at Stanford University Hospital and earned his M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco. His other degrees are from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (M.P.A.), the University of California at Berkeley (M.S.), the University of Chicago (M.B.A.), and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A.).

Nils Daulaire is president and CEO of the Global Health Council, the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Prior to his work at the Global Health Council, Dr. Daulaire served as the Senior International Health Advisor to President Bill Clinton.

As the U.S. government's top international health expert, Dr. Daulaire developed close relationships with health and political leaders around the world. Nils Daulaire testifies before Congress regularly on global health issues, and makes frequent media appearances to discuss news related to global health. He was the lead U.S. negotiator on health at the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995 and the Rome World Food Summit in 1996. He represented the U.S. at five World Health Organization (WHO) Annual Assemblies. Dr. Daulaire's two decades of fieldwork in maternal and child health has included time in such disparate locales as Nepal, Mali, Haiti, Bangladesh, and other low-income countries. He has provided technical assistance to more than 20 countries in all the regions of the world, and speaks seven languages.

A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Daulaire received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1976 with residency training in family medicine at the University of Colorado. He received his Master's in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 1978. He is board certified in preventive medicine and public health, and is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. In 2002, Dr. Daulaire was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Andrey K. Demin is President of the Russian Public Health Association and Professor of Department of Social Medicine, Economics and Organization of Health Care at the I.M. Sechenov Medical Academy in Moscow. Prior to this position, Dr. Demin served as a Lecturer at O.W. Kussinen Petrozavodsk State University and as a Researcher with the Ministries of Health of the U.S.S.R. and Russia.

Dr. Demin received an M.D. from O.W.Kuusinen Petrozavodsk State University in 1980; his Candidate of Medical Sciences in Social Hygiene and Organization of Health Care from the Specialized Dissertation Board, A. Semashko Research Institute, Ministry of Health of USSR in 1988; and a Doctor of Political Science in Political Problems of International Systems and Global Development, Highest Attestation Commission of Russia, 2001.

He is a member of the Governing Board of World Federation of Public Health Associations; the Scientific Council of European Public Health Association; the Editorial Board of "Zdrowie Publiczne" (Journal of the Ministry of Health of Poland); the NGO "Center for Russian Environmental Policy", and the Canadian Public Health Association. His biography is included in "Who's Who in the World", 2003. Dr. Demin was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

David Devlin-Foltz directs the Global Interdependence Initiative, a policy program of the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. Mr. Devlin-Foltz has been involved for some twenty years in public education, international exchange, and constituency building efforts in southern Africa and the United States. Before coming to the Aspen Institute in 1993, he worked for the Institute of International Education, the School for International Training and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A Peace Corps volunteer at the National University of Rwanda from 1979 to 1981, Mr. Devlin-Foltz has also taught or managed programs in France, Spain, and Zimbabwe. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale College and holds graduate degrees from the Sorbonne and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Mr. Devlin-Foltz can be reached at david.devlin-foltz@aspeninst.org

Kenneth Fox is a pediatrician and medical anthropologist committed to giving options to the poor in health care. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. A graduate of The College at the University of Chicago, he earned an M.D. at the Pritzker School of Medicine in 1989. After internship and residency at Boston Children's Hospital, he completed a fellowship as a Clinical Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the University of Pennsylvania where he pursued graduate studies in Medical Anthropology. Dr. Fox has also worked for Harvard Medical School's Department of Social Medicine.

As a fellow in the Kellogg National Leadership Program (1997-2000) and the Institute for Health and Social Justice in Cambridge, MA (1998-99), Dr. Fox began to explore African American and Latino urban male youth culture, literacy, and violence. Toward this end he created the Hip Hop Literacy Project. He's been drawn more deeply into the world of advocacy as an Open Society Institute Fellow in the Medicine As a Profession initiative. In this capacity he acts as advisor to B City Voices, a youth leadership development program in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood in collaboration with the group Partners In Health. His current programming interest is to explore the uses of popular culture to raise political consciousness and foster activism among disadvantaged urban youth. Dr Fox was a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

Harriet Mayor Fulbright is the widow of Senator J. William Fulbright. In 2000 she served as the Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The committee's mission was to encourage partnerships between the public and private sectors in order to enhance cultural life in America. Prior to assuming this position, she served as "Unofficial Ambassador" for the 50th anniversary of the Fulbright Program and in that capacity traveled to 16 countries on all continents and all over the United States to speak about the importance of international education exchange and the pivotal role played by the Fulbright Program. She has spent the majority of her adult life in the fields of education and the arts. Her experience as a teacher ranges from Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea, where she taught English composition and creative writing, to Moscow, where she taught non-English speaking first graders to speak and read English. In the United States, she taught art at several institutions, including the Maret School and American University. In 1980, she was selected "Teacher of the Year" at the Maret school.

Mrs. Fulbright's administrative experience is also wide ranging. When the Congressional Arts Caucus was formed on Capitol Hill, she was its first Assistant Director and later was appointed Executive Secretary of the Congress of International Historians of Art at the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Arts. In 1987, she became Executive Director of the Fulbright Association, where she served for three years, moving it from Bryn Mawr to Washington and increasing its visibility and professionalism. From 1990 to 1996, she was President of the Center for Arts in the Basic Curriculum, an organization that advocates education reform and conducts teacher-training seminars.

Mrs. Fulbright has a Bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College and M.F.A. from The George Washington University. She was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Scranton and an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Long Island University. She was also the Young Audiences Honoree of the Year in 1994 and received Panama's highest civilian award, El Orden de Manual Amador Guerrero. She has delivered well over 50 speeches in the last five years and has published numerous articles and a book about the arts and education, the Fulbright Program, and the issues of the new millennium.

Mrs. Fulbright also serves on a number of boards, including the Fulbright International Center, based at the University of Maryland, of which she is President; the Wendy and Emory Reeves International Center; World Learning; the Academy of Educational Development; The University of Arkansas' Fulbright College Advisory Board; and the National Foreign Language Center.

Peter J. Hotez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University, where his major research and academic interest is in the area of vaccine development for parasitic and tropical diseases, and the role of vaccines in international diplomacy. He is also Visiting Professor at the Chinese National Institute of Parasitic Diseases in Shanghai.

Dr. Hotez is the Principal Investigator on a Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative from the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Gates Foundation to develop a recombinant vaccine for hookworm-induced malnutrition and anemia. He is also the Principal Investigator on grants from the NIH, March of Dimes, American Heart Association and the China Medical Board. He is the author or co-author of over 120 scientific and technical papers in molecular and immunoparasitology and tropical disease, as well as two books. He is the recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal from the American Society of Parasitologists and a Young Investigator Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP).

Dr. Hotez obtained his B.A. degree in Molecular Biophysics phi beta kappa from Yale University (1980) and his M.D. and Ph.D. from the medical scientist-training program at Cornell University and The Rockefeller University. After completing his residency on the Children's Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Hotez returned to Yale University where he was on the faculty for 12 years.

Craig Janes is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Denver and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, also in Denver. He is a core faculty member in the interdisciplinary Health and Behavioral Sciences doctoral program, a program he initiated in 1994, and which he directed from its inception until 1997. At present, Dr. Janes is a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health, Prevention Research Center, where he is completing advanced training in GIS applications to public health.

Dr. Janes received his Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley/San Francisco in 1984, and has a broad background in applied medical anthropology and epidemiology.

Professor Janes has published 18 journal articles, authored one book, edited another, and written five book chapters. He has received several grants in support of this research from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. He has also researched and worked in Mongolia, Taiwan (where he was a Fulbright scholar), the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, Samoa, and the United States. Dr. Janes was a Fulbright scholar with the 2002 New Century Scholars Program. Dr. Janes can be reached at Craig.Janes@cudenver.edu

Ilona Kickbusch is Head of the Division of Global Health at Yale University School of Medicine, in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Her major research interests are in global health policy and governance, partnerships for health development, healthy communities and social determinants of health. Present research projects include health literacy, international health promotion development and health and security.

Dr. Kickbusch joined Yale after a distinguished career with the World Health Organization where she initiated the OTTAWA Charter for Health Promotion and headed a range of innovative programs such as Healthy Cities and Health Promoting Schools. As director of communication at the WHO/HQ in Geneva she oversaw the planning for World Health Days and the health pavilion at the World EXPO 2000 in Hanover. Dr. Kickbusch, a native of Germany, received her Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has published and lectured widely on the new public health and is a member of many professional organizations, editorial boards and advisory groups. She is the founder and chair of the editorial board of the journal Health Promotion International. She has received numerous honors and awards for her achievements, most recently the meritorious gold medal of the City of Vienna and the Salomon Neumann Medal of the German Society for Social Medicine. She holds an honorary professorship at the University of Bielefeld, Germany and a courtesy appointment in political science at Yale University.

Dr. Kickbusch acts as an advisor to the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization, the Commission of the European Union, International Organizations, Foundations, Non-Government Organizations and the private sector on matters of global health and the development of health promotion. Presently she acts as the senior health advisor to the United Nations Association of the USA's global health campaign. She has also been designated the distinguished Fulbright New Century Scholars Leader on "Challenges of Health in a Borderless World".

Ann Marie Kimball is Professor of Health Services and Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. She is also Adjunct Professor in Medicine with the School of Medicine. She serves as Director of the Masters in Public Health Program in Health Services and as an attending physician at the International Clinic at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Dr. Kimball has also worked with the Pan American Health Organization and for Washington State's HIV/AIDS/STD program and its Department of Health.

Dr. Kimball has served on numerous editorial and scientific and technical committees. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (APHA 2000) and as a member of the Institute of Medicine Expert Committee to review the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program. She is a fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine. She is Chair of the University of Washington Hogness Symposium and a member of the International Faculty Council of the University. Dr. Kimball was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

Katharine Kreis is a Program Officer in Global Health Initiatives Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her main areas of focus are maternal and child health and nutrition. Prior to working at the foundation, Ms. Kreis served as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). During her tenure with USAID, Ms. Kreis was the Deputy Chief of the Office of Health in USAID/Bolivia, as well as a technical officer for the Commercial Market Strategies and LINKAGES projects.

Ms. Kreis has also worked for several non-governmental organizations in Africa, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Marshall Islands. She holds dual Master of Public Health degrees in International Health and Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. Ms. Kreis can be reached at katharinek@gatesfoundation.org

Franklin Larey began studying the piano at the age of 16 and graduated from the University of the Western Cape with a Bachelor's degree in psychology and music. He is the only active black concert pianist in South Africa. Dr. Larey traveled to the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati in 1986 on a Fulbright student grant. He completed his thesis and received his doctorate from the University at Cincinnati in 1996. Dr. Larey formed the IXOPO Duo in 1993 with fellow pianist Mary Roth, an association that led to first prize at the 1994 Graves Duo Piano Competitio. They were named as finalists at the prestigious 1996 Murray Dranoff International Two Pianos Competition, and were featured on the PBS documentary, Two Pianos-One Passion. His solo honors include first prize at the 1991 Young Change International Piano Competition and third prize at the 1996 New Orleans International Piano Competition.

Upon his return to South Africa, Dr. Larey became the Director and Professor of Piano at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. He continues to perform as a soloist and as a duo pianist. Larey's most recent Fulbright award has brought him back to the University of Cincinnati. His project, titled "The Power of Expression: Forging a South African Pianistic Tradition," is designed to raise awareness of the world of classical piano music in South Africa.

Jiesun Lim is a native of Seoul, South Korea, where she attended Yonsei University and graduated with the highest distinction in her class. She then attended Indiana University at Bloomington where she obtained her Doctorate of Music in 1990. She credits studying abroad at this stage for her thorough knowledge of Western instruments and her curiosity in using traditional Korean instruments in Western music. Dr. Lim's compositions have been performed at a number of international music festivals, including the June in Buffalo festival in 1997, the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 1998, the Asian Composers' League in Taiwan in 1998, and ISCM World Music Days in Moldova in 1999. She is no stranger to accolades, having received the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize, the Ahn Iktae Prize, and the Korean National Music Prize Award, among others. Dr. Lim is an Associate Dean and Professor of composition and music theory at Yonsei University's College of Music and acts as Secretary General of the Korean Society of Women Composers.

Dr. Lim is currently a Fulbright grantee at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She is writing a concerto for kayakeum (a traditional Korean instrument) and orchestra that is to symbolize the exchange and mutual effect between the cultures and people of Korea and the United States.

Melinda Moore joined the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Global Health Affairs as its Deputy Director in July 2000, after nearly 20 years with the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

She obtained her M.D. and Master of Public Health degrees from Harvard in 1975. She completed an internal medicine internship and pediatric residency in Boston and preventive medicine residency at CDC in Atlanta, with subsequent board certification in pediatrics and preventive medicine. She has devoted most of her career to global health within HHS, addressing a wide variety of issues. Dr. Moore's career has included projects on dengue fever, enteroviruses, polio, child nutrition, viral gastroenteritis, child survival, HIV/AIDS (domestic policy and international consultation), global environmental health, and global health policy.

Dr. Moore has also worked with the World Bank and the U.S. government in such locations as Brazil, Indonesia, and Uganda. She is a Commissioned Officer (Captain, 06) of the U.S. Public Health Service. In addition to English, she speaks Spanish and French fluently, German and Portuguese at an intermediate level, and has basic comprehension of Greek.

Richard Mollica is the Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He received his M.D. from the University of New Mexico Medical School and an M.A.R from Yale University Divinity School. In 1981, Dr. Mollica and his HPRT team developed one of the first clinical programs for refugees in the United States. The HPRT has worked with survivors from such areas as Cambodia and Bosnia.

Dr. Mollica has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Human Rights Award, American Psychiatric Association (1993); the Max Hayman Award for making an outstanding contribution to the knowledge and understanding of genocide, American Orthopsychiatry Association (1996); and a lifetime visiting professorship, Ministry of Health, Japan, for his mental health contribution to the citizens of Kobe following the recent earthquake (2000). Dr. Mollica was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

Dr. Mollica can be reached via his website at www.hprt-cambridge.org

Seggane Musisi heads the Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Service of Mulago Teaching Hospital in Kampala. He is also Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry and heads the Psychiatry Research Unit at the University of Makarere.

Dr. Musisi received his medical degree from Makarere University and postgraduate training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He was a Consultant Psychiatrist to the Toronto-based Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. Through his work with traumatised refugees and immigrants fleeing to Canada from all over the world, he became interested in the global nature of psychotraumatisation and its sequelae on people's health (post-traumatic stress disorder, population displacements, epidemics and global ill health).

Dr. Musisi is the founder of the African Psycare Research Organisation, an non-governmental mental health research organization. He consults for the Kampala-based African Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and is Consultant and Technical Advisor to the Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims - Working Group on Torture and Organised Violence, a Danish NGO.

Dr. Musisi is a member of the Sub-Saharan African Network against Torture and Organised Violence and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

Peter Ndumbe has been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaounde since January 1999. He is also the Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study and Control of Communicable Diseases of the University of Yaounde I and has been Chair of the National AIDS Commission of Cameroon. He is also the resident co-ordinator of the IDRC sponsored Social Policy Research Network in West and Central Africa and Deputy Director of the Medical Research Council of Cameroon Dr. Ndumbe is also a member of the Task Force on Immunization in the African Region of the World Health Oganization. He was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

Dr. Ndumbe's primary research interests are in human viral infections, vaccine preventable diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, adolescent health, and the functioning of health systems. Dr. Ndumbe also founded a health centre in Oyomabang, a surburb in the city of Yaounde, for the provision of total care to needy persons.

Patti McGill Peterson is currently Executive Director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) and Vice President of the Institute of International Education (IIE). CIES, a division of IIE, has administered the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program since its inception in 1947.

The Fulbright Scholar Program has expanded significantly during Dr. Peterson's tenure as Executive Director. In addition to its core exchange program involving approximately 1600 U.S. and Visiting scholars and professionals from 140 nations, the program now includes several new dimensions: New Century Scholars, Alumni Initiatives and Academic Specialists. These are designed respectively to focus more cross cultural collaboration on topics of major significance to humankind, to encourage institutional impact as a result of Fulbright exchange and to provide more opportunities for short-term participation for U.S. scholars and professionals.

Prior to joining CIES/IIE, Dr. Peterson was Senior Fellow at Cornell University's Institute of Public Affairs where her work focused primarily on the nonprofit sector and its role in shaping public policy in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Peterson holds the title President Emerita at both Wells College and St. Lawrence University where she held presidencies from 1980 to 1996. As a tribute to her leadership at Wells, an endowment was established for the Patti McGill Peterson Chair in the Social Sciences and at St. Lawrence the Center for International and Intercultural Studies was named in her honor.

She has served as a faculty member, administrator and higher education leader. In addition to her presidencies, she has been actively involved with numerous higher education associations. She has held the Chair of the U.S.- Canada Commission for Educational Exchange, the American Council on Education's Commission on Academic Leadership, the Women's College Coalition, the Public Leadership Education Network and the Association of Colleges and Universities in the State of New York. Her current Board memberships include the United Negro College Fund's Global Center, the Council on International Educational Exchange and the Ford Foundation's International Fellowships Program.

Dr. Peterson has a B.A. degree from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and did post-graduate study at Harvard University. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Carnegie Fellowship at Harvard. Her experience as a lecturer and consultant in international settings is extensive. She speaks and publishes primarily in the areas of public policy, higher education and institutional governance.

Naima Prevots prepared for a performance/choreography career in her native New York; studying at various studios and at Julliard, in addition to pursuing her academic degrees. She has choreographed and performed for her own and other companies, and has choreographed for numerous theatrical productions. In 1967 she joined the faculty of The American University where she is director of the Dance program in the Department of Performing Arts, a program she was instrumental in developing. From 1983 to 1987 she helped create the Hollywood Bowl Museum in Los Angeles and served as Director/Curator.

Dr. Prevots has been active in numerous education projects, including Project CAREL, a pilot program in arts education. She is also the author of many articles and several books, including Dancing in the Sun: Hollywood Choreographers, 1915-1937 and American Pageantry: A Movement for Art and Democracy. She has been the recipient of both Fulbright and NEH fellowships, has served as a panelist and consultant for the NEA, the NEH and the D.C. Commission on the Arts. She has served on the boards of the American Dance Guild Society of Dance History Scholars, the Congress on Research in Dance and the Fulbright Association.

Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on a group of poverty alleviation initiatives called the Millennium Development Goals.

Sachs serves as an economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa. He became internationally known in the 1980s for advising these governments on economic reforms.

He is Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Global Competitiveness Report, and has been a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, and the United Nations Development Program. During 2000-2001, he was Chairman of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health of the World Health Organization, and from September 1999 through March 2000 he served as a member of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission established by the U.S. Congress.

In February 2002, Nature Magazine stated that Sachs "has revitalized public health thinking since he brought his financial mind to it." He was cited in The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and called in Time Magazine's 1994 issue on promising young leaders "the world's best-known economist." In 1997, the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur cited Professor Sachs as one of the world's 50 most important leaders on globalization. His syndicated newspaper column appears in more than 50 countries around the world, and he is a frequent contributor to major publications such as The New York Times, the Financial Times of London, and The Economist.

Sachs' research interests include the links of health and development, economic geography, globalization, transition to market economies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, international financial markets, international macroeconomic policy coordination, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries. He is author or co-author of more than two hundred scholarly articles, and has written or edited many books.

Sachs is the recipient of many awards and honors, including membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Fellows of the World Econometric Society. He is a member of the Brooking Panel of Economists and the Board of Advisors of the Chinese Economists Society, among other organizations. He received honorary degrees from many universities including St. Gallen University in Switzerland, the Lingnan College of Hong Kong, and Varna Economics University in Bulgaria, and an honorary professorship at Universidad del Pacifico in Peru. Distinguished lecture series include the London School of Economics, Oxford University, Tel Aviv, Jakarta, Yale and many others.

Prior to his July 2002 arrival at Columbia University, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development and Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade.

Sachs was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1976, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 and 1980 respectively. He joined the Harvard faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1980, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1982 and Full Professor in 1983.

V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder obtained her doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently, she is Director of Community Health and Social Welfare of the Center for Health Systems Research of the Mexican National Institute of Public Health.

Her professional research career for almost twenty-five years has focused on the psychosocial and cultural factors that affect the quality of life, physical and mental health of Mexican-origin groups in the United States: Immigrants and later generation Mexican Americans; documented and undocumented immigrants; wives and children left behind in Mexican rural villages, and return migrants. Dr. Salgado de Snyder has published her research findings internationally in more than 70 journal articles and book chapters.

She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and member of the prestigious Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. She has also been the Associate Editor of the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences for the last 15 years. Among other groups of experts, Dr. Salgado de Snyder coordinates the Mexican side of the Migrant Health Core Group of the Mexico-U.S. Binational Commission; she is Presidential Advisor on Migration and Health; and Scientific Associate of the Texas/World Health Organization for Cross-Cultural Research on Mental Health and Psychosocial Factors in Health. Dr. Salgado was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program.

Nancy Shute is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. She covers biomedicine, new technology, and health care. She holds a master's of studies in law from Yale Law School. She was the first Fulbright Scholar in Kamchatka, Russia, in 1993. Shute has been an independent magazine writer for 13 years, contributing to Smithsonian, Health, the New Republic, National Review, and the New York Times magazine, in addition to major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.

Peter Singer is the Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Program Director of the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health. He directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He is also Professor of Medicine and practices Internal Medicine at Toronto Western Hospital.

A Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator, Dr. Singer has published 140 articles on bioethics. He holds over $16 million in research grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, Genome Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is a member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Journal, and a Director of The Change Foundation.

Dr. Singer studied internal medicine at the University of Toronto, medical ethics at the University of Chicago, and clinical epidemiology at Yale University. Dr. Singer can be reached at peter.singer@utoronto.ca

James P. Smith is the chief executive officer of the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing American interests in global health through the promotion and support of community based partnerships between health related institutions and professionals in the US and overseas. Since 1992, more than 150 US hospitals and health systems and 58 universities and schools of the health professions from 27 states have participated in over 100 AIHA partnerships along with a similar number of host country counterpart institutions.

Mr. Smith's work in international health and foreign assistance has been widely recognized. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honorary degrees from governments and health care institutions in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe for his leadership in reforming health systems and health professions education in Eurasia.

Kausalya Srinivasan has over 20 years of experience in the dances of India, having performed since 1981 when she won a talent promotion scholarship. Not only has Ms. Srinivasan danced all over India, from Rajasthan in the northwest to her home in Tamil Nadu in the southeast, but she has also traveled to Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, and with her Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence award, now the United States. Ms. Srinivasan is the Director of the Sunartaka School in Chennai where her students learn the ancient, complex, and holy dance called bharatha natyam. Ms. Srinivasan is currently at Bridgewater State College in the Department of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts where she teaches "Dance: A Panoramic Journey from the Traditional to the Contemporary."

Sally Stansfield is the Associate Director for Global Health Initiatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For the Foundation, she coordinates the design, shaping, and monitoring of a broad portfolio of initiatives to improve global health equity. She draws upon more than 30 years of clinical and public health practice, experience in research agencies, governments, non-governmental organizations, and multilateral agencies to engineer innovative alliances and facilitate effective implementation of projects. She has worked throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East to improve health policies, programs, and outcomes in developing countries.

Dr. Stansfield's areas of expertise include public health research, policy, strategic planning, program design and development, evaluation, and the development of health information systems. She has worked in Cambodia, Ethiopia, as well as other countries of Asia and Africa. She was part of the teams managing the early manifestations of epidemics of AIDS and Ebola hemorrhagic fever for the US Centers for Disease Control.

Her many awards include the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary, the International College of Surgeons Award for Scholarship, the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Commendation, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Yale Tercentennial Medal.

Kearsley Stewart is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she is developing courses on Medical Anthropology, Gender and Health, HIV/AIDS, and Anthropology in Africa. She also consults as a Medical Anthropologist for the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. As a member of the CDC interdisciplinary team, she is conducting ethnographic research for a clinic-based intervention in Atlanta to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapies.

Dr. Stewart recently completed a year-long study of adolescent HIV/AIDS in Uganda using a variety of data collection methods including ethnographic interviewing, population-based surveys, biological markers, and videography. In conjunction with that study, she also implemented the first voluntary HIV testing and counseling clinic in a rural area in Uganda. Its success led to a change of national policy regarding the feasibility of voluntary testing and counseling in rural areas in Uganda. The research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Stewart was also a Fulbright scholar in the 2002 New Century Scholars Program. Dr. Stewart can be reached at kstewart@northwestern.edu

Jeffrey Sturchio is Vice President, External Affairs, Human Health--Europe, Middle East and Africa at Merck & Co., Inc., in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. He is responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of a range of health policy and communications initiatives for the region.

Dr. Sturchio received an A.B. in history (1973) from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in the history & sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania (1981). He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Dr. Sturchio can be reached at jeffrey_sturchio@merck.com

Rosalind Swenson serves as Policy and Planning Officer in the Office of Academic Exchange Programs. Previously, Ms. Swenson served as Deputy Director of the Office of Academic Programs and as Exchanges and Assistance Coordinator in the Office of Eastern Europe and NIS Affairs. Ms. Swenson began her career as a Foreign Service Officer serving in Yaounde, Cameroon; Saigon, Vietnam; Athens, Greece; and Washington. Ms. Swenson then joined the civil service and became Cultural/Media Coordinator for the Office of European Affairs. Ms. Swenson is a graduate of Goucher College and the Columbia University School of Foreign Affairs.

Jose Romero Teruel is the Senior Advisor in International Health and special advisor for the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office of the World Health Organization for the Americas. He is also a Professor of Global Health and International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, as well as coordinating the Summer Session in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.

Dr. Teruel joined PAHO in 1973, and has served as Chief of Analysis and Strategic Planning, Director of the Division of Health and Development, and Director of the Area of Infrastructure of Health Services in that time.

Dr. Teruel obtained his medical degree at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He completed post-graduate work there and at the University of Birmingham, England. Dr. Teruel received training in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He has been honored with the Milbank Memorial Fund Faculty Fellowship.