How to Live Longer: USAID’s Work to Stop Death Before 50
What can we do to help people everywhere live longer, healthier lives? How has the United States’ strategy to improve global public health evolved over time? USAID’s global health chief Dr. Atul Gawande will explore these questions and more and present data to show the ways U.S. foreign investment is driving positive health outcomes around the world. Please RSVP here.
About the Speaker
Dr. Atul Gawande is the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he oversees a bureau that manages over $4 billion with a footprint of over 900 staff committed to advancing equitable delivery of public health approaches around the world. The Global Health Bureau focuses on work that improves lives everywhere–from preventing child and maternal deaths to controlling the HIV/AIDs epidemic, to combating infectious diseases and preparing for future outbreaks.
Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, he was a practicing surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit making surgery safer globally. From 2018-2020, he was also CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase healthcare venture. In addition, Atul was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times best-selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal.
About the Maloy Distinguished Lecture in Global Health
In 1999, Paul and Catherine Maloy endowed the Maloy Family Fund to support health-related projects and an annual distinguished lecture in global health in the STIA Program. Paul J. Maloy graduated from the School of Foreign Service and Catherine Fowler Maloy was a graduate of the former School of Nursing and Health Studies. STIA holds the Maloy Distinguished Lecture in Global Health on campus each year to highlight a leader and innovator in the global health field.