Dean Jamison

Dean Jamison is Professor Emeritus of Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. He previously served as Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington (2008 – 13) and as the T. & G. Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development in the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Public Health (2006 – 08). Prior to that, Jamison had been at the University of California, Los Angeles (1988 – 2006) and at the World Bank (1976 – 1988). His last position at the World Bank was Director, World Development Report Office and lead author for the Bank’s 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health. His publications are in the areas of economic theory, public health and education. Jamison studied at Stanford (M.S., engineering science) and at Harvard (Ph.D., economics, under K.J. Arrow). In 1994 he was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. Jamison was recently co-first author, with Lawrence Summers, of ‘Global Health 2035’, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. He is a member of ongoing Lancet commissions on tuberculosis and on palliative care. Jamison also serves on the World Bank Working Group on cost and finance of country-level pandemic preparedness.