Home > Spring 2004

1. 

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ph.D.

2. 

Richard Garfield, Dr.P.H.

Ronald Waldman, M.D., M.P.H.

3. 

Dickson Despommier, Ph.D.

4. 

Sarah, J. Schlesinger, M.D.

Elaine J. Abrams, M.D.

5. 

Seth F. Berkley, M.D.

Eve Slater, M.D.

Roy Vagelos, M.D.

6. 

Maria Freire, Ph.D.

Waafa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H.

7.  

Panos Papapanou, D.D.S., Ph.D.

8. 

Allan Rosenfield, M.D.

9. 

Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.

Richard Garfield is a professor of nursing and coordinator of a WHO/PAHO Nursing Collaborating Center at Columbia University and visiting professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He combines a qualitative perspective of community health promotion and the quantitative skills of epidemiology to assess morbidity and mortality changes among civilian groups in humanitarian crises around the world. He has assessed the impact of economic embargoes in Cuba, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Liberia for national governments and UN organizations. He visited Iraq 6 times during 1996 - 2003 to collaborate with UNICEF, the World Food Program, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health and, since the 2003 war, he has worked in Iraq for WHO and UNICEF to assist in reconstruction, manage reactivation of health services, and prepare the post-Oil for Food UN program.

Ron Waldman is a professor of clinical population and family health and deputy director of the Center for Global Health and Economic Development. He is the former director and founder of the program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. He is the immediate past-chairman of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association. He has extensive experience in international political emergencies and in child health in developing countries.