Dean T. Jamison is a professor of health economics in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and an affiliate of UCSF Global Health Sciences. Dr. Jamison concurrently serves as an adjunct professor in both the Peking University Guanghua School of Management and in the University of Queensland School of Population Health.

Before joining UCSF, Dr. Jamison was on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, and also spent many years at the World Bank, where he was a senior economist in the research department; division chief for education policy; and division chief for population, health, and nutrition. In 1992–93, he temporarily rejoined the World Bank to serve as director of the World Development Report Office and as lead author for the Bank's World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health.

His publications are in the areas of economic theory, public health, and education. Dr. Jamison studied at Stanford (B.A., philosophy; M.S., engineering sciences) and at Harvard (Ph.D., economics, under K. J. Arrow). In 1994, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Joel G. Breman, M.D., D.T.P.H., is senior scientific adviser, Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, and comanaging editor of the Disease Control Priorities Project. He was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Keck School of Medicine, the University of California; and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Breman trained in medicine at the University of California–Los Angeles County Medical Center; in infectious diseases at the Boston City Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and in epidemiology at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Breman worked in Guinea on smallpox eradication (1967–69); in Burkina Faso at the Organization for Coordination and Cooperation in the Control of the Major Endemic Diseases (1972–76); and at the World Health Organization, Geneva (1977–80), where he was responsible for orthopoxvirus research and the certification of smallpox eradication. In 1976, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Dr. Breman investigated the first outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Following the confirmation of smallpox eradication in 1980, Dr. Breman returned to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, where he began work on the epidemiology and control of malaria. Dr. Breman joined the Fogarty International Center in 1995 and has been director of the International Training and Research Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases and senior scientific adviser. He has been a member of many advisory groups, including serving as chair of the World Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on Human Monkeypox and as a member of the World Health Organization's International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis (guinea worm) Eradication. Dr. Breman has written more than 100 publications on infectious diseases and research capacity strengthening in developing countries. He was guest editor of two supplements to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: "The Intolerable Burden of Malaria: A New Look at the Numbers" (2001) and "The Intolerable Burden of Malaria: What's New, What's Needed" (2004).

Anthony R. Measham is comanaging editor of the Disease Control Priorities Project at the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health; deputy director of the Communicating Health Priorities Project at the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC; and a member of the Working Group of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization on behalf of the World Bank.

Born in the United Kingdom, Dr. Measham practiced family medicine in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, before devoting the remainder of his career to date to international health. He spent 15 years living in developing countries on behalf of the Population Council (Colombia), the Ford Foundation (Bangladesh), and the World Bank (India). Early in his international health career (1975–77), he was deputy director of the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University, New York. He then served for 17 years on the staff of the World Bank, as health adviser from 1984 until 1988 and as chief for policy and research of the Health, Nutrition, and Population Division from 1988 until 1993.

Dr. Measham has spent most of his career providing technical assistance, carrying out research and analysis, and helping to develop projects in more than 20 developing countries, primarily in the areas of maternal and child health, family planning, and nutrition. He was an editor of the first edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries and has authored approximately 60 monographs, book chapters, and journal articles.

Dr. Measham graduated in medicine from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He received a master of science and a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is a diplomat of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. His honors include being elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society; being appointed as special professor of International Health, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham, United Kingdom; and being named Dalhousie University Medical Alumnus of the Year in 2000–1.

George Alleyne, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. (Hon), D.Sc. (Hon), is director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization, where he served as director from 1995 to 2003. Dr. Alleyne is a native of Barbados and graduated from the University of the West Indies in medicine in 1957. He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine in the United Kingdom and did further postgraduate work in that country and in the United States. He entered academic medicine at the University of the West Indies in 1962, and his career included research in the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit for his doctorate in medicine. He was appointed professor of medicine at the University of the West Indies in 1972, and four years later he became chair of the Department of Medicine. He is an emeritus professor of the University of the West Indies. Dr. Alleyne joined the Pan American Health Organization in 1981, in 1983 he was appointed director of the Area of Health Programs, and in 1990 he was appointed assistant director.

Dr. Alleyne's scientific publications have dealt with his research in renal physiology and biochemistry and various aspects of clinical medicine. During his term as director of the Pan American Health Organization, he dealt with and published on issues such as equity in health, health and development, and international cooperation in health. He has also addressed several aspects of health in the Caribbean and the problems the area faces. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and chancellor of the University of the West Indies.

Dr. Alleyne has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including prestigious decorations and national honors from many countries of the Americas. In 1990, he was made Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to medicine. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of the Caribbean Community, the highest honor that can be conferred on a Caribbean national.

Mariam Claeson, M.D., M.P.H., is the program coordinator for AIDS in the South Asia Region of the World Bank since January 2005. She was the lead public health specialist in the Health, Nutrition, and Population, Human Development Network, of the World Bank (1998–2004), managing the Health, Nutrition, and Population Millennium Development Goals work program to support accelerated progress in countries.

Dr. Claeson coauthored the call for action by the Bellagio study group on child survival in 2003, Knowledge into Action for Child Survival, and the World Bank's 2005 report on The Millennium Development Goals for Health: Rising to the Challenges. She was a member of the What Works Working group hosted by the Center for Global Development that resulted in the report Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health 2005. Dr. Claeson coauthored the health chapter of the Poverty Reduction Strategy source book, promoting a life-cycle approach to maternal and child health and nutrition. As a coordinator of the public health thematic group (1998–2002), she led the development of the strategy note Public Health and World Bank Operations and promoted multisectoral approaches to child health within the World Bank and in Bank-supported country operations, analytical work, and lending.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Claeson worked with the World Health Organization from 1987 until 1995, in later years as program manager for the Global Program for the Control of Diarrheal Diseases. She has several years of field experience working in developing countries; in clinical practice at the rural district level in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Tanzania; in national program management of immunization and diarrheal disease control programs in Ethiopia; and in health sector development projects in middle- and low-income countries.

David B. Evans, Ph.D., is an economist by training. Between 1980 and 1990, he was an academic, first in economics departments and then in a medical school, during which time he undertook consultancies for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and governments. From 1990 until 1998, he sponsored and conducted research into social and economic aspects of tropical diseases and their control in the United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, and World Health Organization Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. He subsequently became director of the Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy and then the Department of Health Systems Financing of the World Health Organization, where he is now responsible for a range of activities relating to the development of appropriate health financing strategies and policies. These activities include the World Health Organization's CHOICE project, which has assessed and reported the costs and effectiveness of more than 700 health interventions, the costs of scaling up interventions, the levels of health expenditures and accounts, and the extent of financial catastrophe and impoverishment caused by out-of-pocket payments for health and which has assessed the impact of different ways to raise funds for health, pool them, and use them to provide or purchase services and interventions. He has published widely in these areas.

Prabhat Jha is Canada research chair of health and development at the University of Toronto. He is also the founding director of the Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael's Hospital; associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto; research scholar at the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine; and professeur extraordinaire at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Jha is lead author of Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control and coeditor of Tobacco Control in Developing Countries. Both are among the most influential books on tobacco control. He is the principal investigator of a prospective study of 1 million deaths in India, researching mortality from smoking, alcohol use, fertility patterns, indoor air pollution, and other risk factors among 2.3 million homes and 15 million people. This work is currently the world's largest prospective study of health. He also conducts studies of HIV transmission in various countries, focusing on documenting the risk factors for the spread of HIV and interventions to prevent the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His studies have received more than $5 million in peer-reviewed grants.

Dr. Jha has published widely on tobacco, HIV/AIDS, and health of the global poor. His awards include a Gold medal from the Poland Health Promotion Foundation (2000), the Top 40 Canadians under Age 40 Award (2004), and the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award (2004). Dr. Jha was a research scholar at the University of Toronto and McMaster University in Canada. He holds an M.D. from the University of Manitoba and a D. Phil. in epidemiology and public health from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College.

Anne Mills, Ph.D., is professor of health economics and policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has more than 20 years of experience in research pertaining to health economics in developing countries and has published widely in the fields of health economics and health planning, including books on the role of government in health in developing countries, health planning in the United Kingdom, decentralization, health economics research in developing countries, and the public-private mix. Her most recent research interests have been in the organization and financing of health systems, including the evaluation of contractual relationships between the public and private sectors and the application of economic evaluation techniques to improve the efficiency of disease control programs.

Dr. Mills has had extensive involvement in supporting the health economics research activities of the World Health Organization's Tropical Disease Research Programme. She founded, and is head of, the Health Economics and Financing Programme, which has become one of the world's leading groups in developing and applying theories and techniques of health economics to increase knowledge on how best to improve the equity and efficiency of developing countries' health systems. She has acted as adviser to a number of multilateral and bilateral agencies—notably, the United Kingdom Department for International Development and the World Health Organization. She guided the creation of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and chairs its board. Most recently, she has been a member of the Commission for Macroeconomics and Health and cochair of its working group on improving the health outcomes of the poor.

Philip Musgrove is deputy editor—global health for Health Affairs, which is published by Project HOPE in Bethesda, Maryland. He worked for the World Bank (1990–2002), including two years on secondment to the World Health Organization (1999–2001), retiring as a principal economist. He was previously an adviser in health economics at the Pan American Health Organization (1982–90) and a research associate at the Brookings Institution and at Resources for the Future (1964–81).

Dr. Musgrove is an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and has taught at George Washington University, American University, and the University of Florida. He holds degrees from Haverford College (B.A., 1962, summa cum laude); Princeton University (M.P.A., 1964); and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1974).

Dr. Musgrove has worked on health reform projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia and has dealt with a variety of issues in health economics, financing, equity, and nutrition. His publications include more than 50 articles in economics and health journals and chapters in 20 books.