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Global Health Advisors

Our Stanford Core Leadership Team and our External Advisors have expertise in a variety of content areas and medical specialties. Our advisors help to set the agenda for the center as well as lead research projects, provide clinical care, and teach or mentor trainees all over the world.

Stanford Global Health Core Leadership

  • DESIREE LABEAUD, MD

    Arboviral Infections

  • Jason Andrews, MD

    Tuberculosis and Epidemiology  of Undifferentiated Fever

  • AMI S. BHATT

    Global Oncology

  • Clea Sarnquist, DRPH, MPH

    Gender-related Issues in Global Health

  • MANU PRAKESH, PHD

    Bioengineering and Development of Innovative Technologies

  • Mindie Nguyen, MD, MAS, FAASLD

    Gastroenterology and Hepatology

  • Karl Lorenz, MD MShs

    Global Palliative Care

  • YVONNE A. MALDONDO, MD

    Pediatric Infectious Disease

  • Kay Daniels, MD

    Women’s Health and 
Obstectric Emergencies

  • Eran Bendavid, MD

    Environmental Change  and Population Health

  • Benjamin pinsky, MD, PHD

    Development of Novel Low-cost Diagnostics

  • Karl Lorenz, MD MShs

    Global Palliative Care

  • John Openshaw

    Intersection of Health and Environmental Change

  • John Openshaw

    Intersection of Health and Environmental Change

  • John Openshaw

    Intersection of Health and Environmental Change

  • Anurag Mairal, MD

    Technology Innovation

    Anurag Mairal, MD

    Technology Innovation

    Dr. Anurag Maira I is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and the Director, Global Outreach Programs at Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Stanford University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a Faculty Fellow and Lead for Technology Innovation and Impact at Center for Innovation in Global Health. In these roles, he leads initiatives focused on applying the biodesign process to resource-constrained settings globally. Further, he facilitates opportunities for students, faculty and fellows at Stanford to work on global healthcare needs. He is part of the founding faculty team for MED 232, Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations in Low Resource Settings and BIOE 371, Global Biodesign: Medical Technology in an International Context, graduate-level courses offered to engineering, business, and medical students at Stanford University. Earlier, he served as Associate Director for the Stanford-India Biodesign and Singapore-Stanford Biodesign programs. He serves as the Founding Chair of BME IDEA APAC, a community of medtech innovation programs in Asia Pacific, partnering closely with the industry and academia in the region. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Concurrently, he is a co-founder and Executive Vice President of Orbees Medical, a SF Bay Area­based strategy consulting firm serving global healthcare industry, with a focus on medtech, pharmaceutical, and digital health industry.

    External Advisors

    Diana Chapman Walsh

    President Emerita, Wellesley College and Senior Advisor, Stanford Global Health

    Diana Chapman Walsh

    President Emerita, Wellesley College and Senior Advisor, Stanford Global Health

     

    Diana Chapman Walsh was the twelfth president of Wellesley College and is a recognized leader in higher education. Her presidency, from 1993-2007, was marked by educational innovation, including a revision of the curriculum and expanded programs in global education, the humanities, internships and service learning, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and religious and spiritual life.

    Dr. Walsh currently serves on the governing boards of the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (and its executive committee). Her recent board service includes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the inaugural board of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (which she chaired), and the Mind and Life Institute. Prior to the Wellesley presidency, Dr. Walsh was Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Stuart Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she chaired the Department of Health and Social Behavior. Before Harvard, she was a University Professor at Boston University and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health.

    She has published and spoken widely on public health and higher education, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Innovation in Global Health’s Climate Change and Health Initiative.