Gavin Yamey

Gavin Yamey is the Hymowitz Professor of Global Health, Associate Director for Policy, and Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. He is also a Professor of Public Policy in the Duke Sanford School of Policy and is a core faculty member of the Duke-Margolis Institute of Health Policy. He is the Faculty Director for the Duke Global Policy Program in Geneva and leads the program’s global health track. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and University College London, medical journalism at the BMJ, and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has served as a commissioner on four Lancet commissions—on investing in health, tuberculosis, global surgery, and peaceful societies through health and gender equality and he chairs the advisory committee to the Lancet Commission on Global Hearing Loss. He co-chairs the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health's Finance and Economics Working Group. Dr. Yamey has published extensively on global health, neglected diseases, health policy, and disparities in health. He is a columnist for TIME magazine. He was published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.