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Dr Andrew Bazemore
Senior Vice President of Research and Policy, American Board of Family Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care
Dr Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, serves as the Senior Vice President of Research and Policy for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), where he oversees the ABFM research enterprise, co-directs the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care in Washington, DC, and coordinates and develops ABFM career development activities, including ABFM Visiting Scholars, Pisacano Scholars and Puffer Fellows. Dr Bazemore previously served as the Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine in Washington, DC, helping to cultivate the growth and evolution of the Graham Center into an internationally-known primary care research center with diverse funding sources. He has special interests in access to care for underserved populations, health workforce and training, measurement science, and geospatial analytic applications for primary health care. Dr Bazemore led the Graham Center’s emphasis on developing tools that empower primary care providers, leaders, and policymakers and co-developed HealthLandscape, an innovative data engagement platform entirely funded by grants and contracts, including the development of the Uniform Data System (UDS) Mapper contract that guides funding for all the nation’s Federally Qualified Centers. He has served in national policy roles including the Family Medicine for America’s Health Research Tactic Team, and Board of Directors and committee leadership for the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), National Research Network, Rural Training Track Consortium, Council on Graduate Medical Education, and the National Academy of Medicine, to which he was elected as a member in 2016 and for which he leads the Primary Care Interest Group.
Dr Bazemore serves on the faculties of the Departments of Family Medicine at Georgetown University and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and serves a continuity panel of patients at the VCU-Fairfax Family Medicine Residency Program.
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Dr Marla E. Salmon
Professor, Global Health;
Professor, Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing;
Adjunct Professor, Evans School,
University of Washington
Dr Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN, is Professor of Nursing and Global Health at the University of Washington. She is former dean of both the University of Washington and Emory University Schools of Nursing, and has worked in academic, policy, and practice settings in both nursing and public health. Her career has focused on health workforce policy and capacity building in both global and US contexts, working with governments, international agencies and other health-related entities. Her current work relates to social finance and enterprise in the health sector, particularly with respect to opportunities for investment in nursing and midwifery as means for strengthening health systems, empowering women, and providing decent work and career possibilities for poor and marginalised people. She is also engaged in work focusing on women in governance roles.
Dr Salmon has served in leadership and advisory roles, including as US government chief nursing officer in the role of Director of the Division of Nursing, US Department of Health and Human Services; Chair of the Global Advisory Group for Nursing and Midwifery of the World Health Organization. Her advisory roles include serving as member of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform (Clinton Administration), the US Delegation to the World Health Assembly, the National Advisory Committee for the Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health, and the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future. She has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Commonwealth Health Minister’s Secretariat for Nursing and Midwifery, and CARICOM. She has also held leadership roles at Emory University Schools of Nursing, where she served as dean of nursing, professor of nursing and public (global) health, and founded and directed the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and the Global Government Chief Nursing Officer’s Network.
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Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta
Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health & Policy;
Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health;
Senior Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, Departments of Paediatrics, Nutritional Sciences and Public Health, University of Toronto
Distinguished University Professor & Founding Director, Institute for Global Health & Development, The Aga Khan University South-Central Asia, East Africa and United Kingdom
Dr Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Inaugural Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Co-Director at the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, and Founding Director of both the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, and the Institute of Global Health and Development at the Aga Khan University. He holds adjunct professorships at several leading Universities including Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr Bhutta is a Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan, co-Chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Chairman of The Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health. He is a leading voice for health professionals supporting integrated maternal, newborn and child health globally.
Dr Bhutta leads large research groups based in Toronto, Karachi and Nairobi with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence-based interventions in community settings, and implementation of RMNCAH&N interventions in humanitarian contexts. His work with community health workers and outreach services has influenced integrated maternal and newborn outreach programmes for marginalised populations all over the world. His group’s work with the WHO and PMNCH in developing consensus-based essential interventions for women, children and adolescents is guiding global policy.
Dr Bhutta obtained his MBBS from the University of Peshawar and his PhD from the Karolinska Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the 2021 IHME Roux Prize recipient for significant research contributions to women and child health and was awarded the John Dirks Canada Gairdner 2022 Global Health Award, one of the most prestigious global health awards. Dr Bhutta is the recipient of the 2023 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research for exceptional leadership and innovation in maternal child health research.
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