Dr. Ruth Levine will discuss "lessons" from “Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health”, a project of the Center for Global Development and the Disease Control Priorities Project. The project selected and described several large-scale efforts to improve health in developing countries that have succeeded - saving millions of lives and preserving the livelihoods and social fabric of entire communities. Dr. Levine will present elements that could foster successful, large-scale global health programs; she will then examine a set of current policy issues and debates related to four of these elements: funding, innovation, health systems, and evaluation.
Dr. Ruth Levine is a health economist with 15 years of experience working on health and family planning financing issues in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. At the Center for Global Development (CGD), she sets priorities and manages programs that use research to address practical policy challenges; she manages the Global Health Policy Research Network. Before joining the Center, Dr. Levine designed, supervised, and evaluated health sector loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Dr. Levine also conducted research on the health sector, and led the World Bank’s knowledge management activities in health economics and finance between 1999 and 2002. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the Office of the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Dr. Levine has a doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University, has published on health and family planning finance topics, and is the co-author of the following books and reports; The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank, 2001); Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (CGD, 2004), which has been on the required reading list at more than 33 schools and universities in the US and abroad; Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action (CGD, 2005); and When Will We Ever Learn? Improving Lives Through Impact Evaluation (CGD, 2006).
Sponsored by: Center for Global Health and the Department of International Health The next Global Health Leaders Forum speaker will be Tachi Yamada, President of the Gates Foundation, on February 21, 2007. Click here for more information. Return to Events main page | 
