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E-mail: evanst@bracu.ac.bd
Tim Evans is a dual national of Canada and the United States. Following under-graduate training in social sciences at University of Ottawa, he obtained a D.Phil in Agricultural Economics at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He subsequently trained in medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton and completed a research-residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston with a joint appointment as a MacArthur post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
From 1995 through to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor, International Health Economics, at Harvard School of Public Health as well as an Attending Physician, General Internal Medicine, at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
In 1997, he was appointed the Director, Health Equity at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. There he led the development of a programs related to new drugs and vaccines for neglected diseases, tobacco control, access to HIV treatment, disease surveillance, enhancing information systems capacity for vital statistics, disease surveillance and the monitoring of inequities in health, and a global learning initiative on human resources for health. During his tenure, he was a co-founding Board member of the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and the Global Forum for Health Research.
In 2003, he joined the World Health Organization as an Assistant Director General with responsibility for Evidence, Information, Research and Policy. During his tenure, he pioneered institution-wide strategies for health systems, knowledge management and research and oversaw the annual production of the World Health Report. He led the global Commission on Social Determinants of Health and was a co-founder of various partnerships for strengthening health systems including the Health Metrics Network; the Global Health Workforce Alliance; the World Alliance for Patient Safety and the Providing for Health Partnership.
In July 2010, he took up the post of Dean at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University and ICDDR,B in Bangladesh.
Dr. Evans has written numerous journal articles, chapters and books on a wide array of topics in global health and development with a particular focus on health equity, health systems and health research policy. He is currently a Commissioner on the Commission on Health Professional Leadership in the 21st Century, a member of the Board of the Public Health Foundation of India and serves as a scientific advisor to the Institute of Population and Public Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. He previously served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of ICDDR,B and on the Board of BRAC.
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