Dr. Kimberly Green

Dr. Kimberly Green is PATH’s Global Director for Primary Health Care (PHC) overseeing people-centered systems and service delivery in 34 countries. She has thirty years’ experience focused on health service delivery integration and innovation and is passionate about advancing health care through decentralization, task-shifting and community-leadership; market-based approaches; telemedicine, AI and other digital tools; self-care approaches such as self-testing; and innovative health financing. Through her career she has partnered with governments, community and private sector in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America to advance PHC innovations and reforms including related to communicable and noncommunicable diseases, women’s health and health promotion. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Health and Development from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Green is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington Department for Global Health, and Affiliate Faculty at Harvard Medical School Primary Care Center. She is a principle investor across several high impact implementation science studies. She is also an advisor to the International PHC Institute in Ethiopia and the Columbia University CHIMERA HIV, mental health and implementation science fellowship program. Dr Green was recently confirmed a Commissioner for the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-centered Care for Universal Health Coverage, as a member of the WHO Global Validation Advisory Committee for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B virus and elimination of viral hepatitis B and C as a public health problem. She has published extensively in peer review journals, presented as part of abstract-driven conferences and is frequently engaged by WHO as a member of guideline development groups or expert commissions.