Board of Advisors

Dean Jamison, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Fogarty International Center of the
National Institutes of Health

• Senior Fellow at the Fogarty International
  Center of the National Institutes of Health,
  where he is on leave from his position as a Professor
  at the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Before joining the UCLA faculty in 1988, Dr. Jamison spent many years at the World Bank, where served in the following capacities:
• Senior Economist in the research department
• Health Project Officer for China and for The Gambia
• Division Chief for education policy
• Division Chief for population, health and nutrition
• In 1992-93 he temporarily rejoined the World Bank to serve as lead author for the Bank's 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health.
• In 1994 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
• During 1998-2000, Dr. Jamison was on partial leave from UCLA to serve as Director, Economics Advisory Service, at the World Health Organization in Geneva.

Education

• A.B. - Philosophy, Stanford University, California
• M.S. - Engineering Sciences, Stanford University, California
• Ph.D. - Economics (under K.J. Arrow), Harvard University, Massachusetts

Awards and Honors

1994 - Elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences