2012-2013

2013 EPIIC Global Health Jean Mayer Award Winners

Uche Amazigo

Uche Veronica Amazigo is an experienced international scientist and administrator, with extensive expertise in international and community health, public-private partnership, research and policy and strategy development.

Trained in public health and parasitology, specializing in tropical diseases and reproductive health, Dr. Amazigo was formerly senior lecturer in medical parasitology and public health at the University of Nigeria. Her research experience encompasses adolescent reproductive health, strategies for controlling neglected tropical diseases and community-directed health interventions (CDI). Her interest in gender and onchocerciasis (river blindness) led to her pioneering research that formed the scientific basis for establishing APOC in 1995, succeeding the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa. APOC coordinates community-directed treatment with ivermectin?the CDI strategy?in 19 African countries, with the objective of establishing a community-driven, sustainable program to ensure that river blindness ceases to be a public health problem in Africa.

With more than 25 years of experience in research and teaching, Dr. Amazigo has held strategic management positions at international and national levels. Her distinguished career culminated in her appointment as APOC Director in 2005. Currently, she is engaging 117,000 communities, 19 African governments, 14 civil societies and numerous donors using community participation to bring multiple health interventions to areas beyond the reach of health care services in stable and fragile countries. She has over 60 publications. Her legacy will be empowerment of communities to take charge of their own health, thus improving their wellbeing.

Svetlana Broz

Svetlana Broz is a Yugoslavian author and physician who specializes in cardiology. Born in 1955, Broz is the youngest child of Žarko Leon Broz, Tito's eldest son, and Zlata Jelinek-Broz. She worked as a free-lance journalist from 1970 to 1975; many of her articles and interviews were published in newspapers and magazines. She graduated from the Belgrade Medical School in 1980 and has served as a cardiologist at the Military Medical Academy (VMA) from 1981 to 1999, and volunteered her services at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. Her new project is about inter-ethnic marriages entered into during the war.

In 2000, she moved to Sarajevo permanently. The reason for this was, as she stated in an interview for Bosnian daily newspaper Nezavisne novine: "After the NATO intervention, I moved to Sarajevo. Twenty years ago, Belgrade was aEuropean metropolis, a city that I loved a lot. Unfortunately, in a way that city has lost its soul. Sarajevo, despite going through a four year long siege of hell, kept its soul intact. I love Bosnia-Herzegovina, I feel as this is my homeland. Last year I even became a citizen."

In 2004, she became a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Broz is currently heading the local branch of the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide (GARIWO) non-governmental organization. She is the founder of "Education Towards Civil Courage", a series of seminars designed to teach adolescents from all over the Balkans how to stand up to corruption and social and political divisiveness. In the summer 2007, the organization will begin the research and preparation phase for the foundation of a Center for Civil Courage in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Jason Clay (WWF)

Jason Clay is the senior vice president of market transformation for the World Wildlife Fund. His goal is to create global standards for producing and using raw materials, particularly in terms of carbon and water. His ideas are changing the way governments, foundations, researchers, and NGOs identify and address risks and opportunities for their work. He brings people together to improve environmentally sensitive practices in agriculture and aquaculture. He has convened industry roundtables of retailers, buyers, producers and environmentalists to reduce the key impacts of producing soy, cotton, sugarcane, salmon, shrimp, mollusks, catfish and tilapia. Prior to joining WWF in 1999, he ran a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and spent more than 25 years working with human rights and environmental organizations.

Jason, in addition to authoring numerous books on subjects including World Agriculture and the Environment (2004) and Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction (2005), is Founder and Editor of Cultural Survival Quarterly, winner of UTNE reader award for best publication with circulation of less than 30,000, best publication for international news and analysis, and best coverage of international cultural issues.

Nancy Dorsinville

Nancy Dorsinville is currently the Senior Policy Advisor for the UN Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti (OSE), where she focuses on policy issues for vulnerable populations, namely internally displaced populations (IDPs) and in particular gender main streaming, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and the handicapped. She is the liaison for the OSE and the government of Haiti (GOH) ministries responsible for these transversal issues.

Originally from Haiti, she is an Anthropologist and prior to joining the OSE was a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, where her research areas included HIV stigma, health disparities and gender-based violence (GBV). She served as director of HIV prevention education for the city of NY and has a long standing affiliation with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), under whose umbrella she conducted a country-wide diagnostic of the health care system in Haiti in conjunction with the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP) and Partners in Health. She has done extensive field work with Dr Paul Farmer and continues to be part of his Global Health teaching team at Harvard University.

Jack Duvall

Jack DuVall is the President and founding Director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He was the Executive Producer of the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS television series, “A Force More Powerful,” and co-author of the companion book of the same name (Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press 2001). A native of California, he holds a B.A. degree (cum laude) from Colgate University and serves as a member of the board of sponsors of Morehouse College (Atlanta, Georgia) and an associate of the Centre for Justice and Peace Development at Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand).

Laurie Garrett

Since 2004, Laurie Garrett has been a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. Ms. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Her expertise includes global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism.

Ms. Garrett is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994) and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion Press, 2000). Over the years, she has also contributed chapters to numerous books, including AIDS in the World (Oxford University Press, 1993), edited by Jonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola, and Thomas Netter, and Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases (New York Academy of Sciences, 1994), edited by Mary E. Wilson. Her latest book is I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks.

She graduated with honors in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley, and did laboratory research at Stanford University with Dr. Leonard Herzenberg. During her PhD studies, she started reporting on science news at KPFA, a local radio station. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school, and she took a leave of absence to explore journalism. At KPFA, Ms. Garrett worked on a documentary, coproduced with Adi Gevins, that won the 1977 George Foster Peabody Award.

After leaving KPFA, Ms. Garrett worked briefly in the California Department of Food and Agriculture, assessing the human health impacts of pesticide use. She then went overseas, living and working in southern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, freelance reporting for Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, BBC Radio, Reuters, Associated Press, and others. In 1980, she joined National Public Radio, working out of the network's San Francisco and, later, Los Angeles bureaus as a science correspondent. During her NPR years, Ms. Garrett received awards from the National Press Club (Best Consumer Journalism, 1982), the San Francisco Media Alliance (Meritorious Achievement Award in Radio, 1983), and the World Hunger Alliance (First Prize, Radio, 1987).

In 1988, Ms. Garrett left NPR to join the science writing staff ofNewsday. Her Newsday reporting has earned several awards, including the Newsday Publisher's Award (Best Beat Reporter, 1990), Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists (for "AIDS in Africa," 1989), Deadline Club of New York (Best Beat Reporter, 1993), First Place from the Society of Silurians (for "Breast Cancer," 1994), and the Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America (for "AIDS in India," 1995). She has also written for many publications, including Foreign Affairs,Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health. She has appeared frequently on national television programs, including ABC's Nightline, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The Charlie Rose Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show,Dateline, The International Hour (CNN), and Talkback (CNN).

Ms. Garrett is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and served as the organization's president during the mid-1990s. She lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York.

Anne Goldfeld

Anne is a longtime advocate for the health and human rights of the poor and refugees. She made the first call for an international ban against landmines in 1991 in congressional testimony and in 1988 provided some of the earliest evidence of gender based violence against women in situations of war and torture in the medical literature. She served as medical coordinator for the American Refugee Committee on the Thai-Cambodian border at Site II in 1989 and in 1994, Anne co-founded the Cambodian Health Committee. She has also worked to improve health care for refugees and citizens in Guatemala, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Congo, Peru, Albania, Angola, and most recently in Ethiopia. In addition to her peer reviewed scientific publications, her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe and the Nation.

Anne is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health. Anne is also a Senior Investigator at the Immune Disease Institute of Children's Hospital Boston and a member of the Infectious Disease Division at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. A leader in molecular immunology and tuberculosis and AIDS research, her work has pioneered the approach of linking delivery of care with basic scientific discovery, which has led to a new understanding of how the immune system responds to tuberculosis and AIDS, with the goal of improved treatments to reach the most patients around the world.

Mary Kaldor

Mary Kaldor (born 16 March 1946) is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of its Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

Before the LSE, Kaldor worked at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and now serves on its governing board. She also worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, where she worked closely with English economist Christopher Freeman. She was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament, editing its European Nuclear Disarmament Journal (1983–88). She was the founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She also writes for OpenDemocracy.net, and belongs to the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance.

She began her career with a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. She is the daughter of the economist Nicholas Kaldor. She is also the sister of Frances Stewart, Professor at the University of Oxford.

In a 2008 interview Kaldor said "The international community makes a terrible mess wherever it goes".

It is hard to find a single example of humanitarian intervention during the 1990s that can be unequivocally declared a success. Especially after Kosovo, the debate about whether human rights can be enforced through military means is ever more intense. Moreover, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have been justified in humanitarian terms, have further called into question the case for intervention.

Bernard Lown

Dr. Bernard Lown is Professor of Cardiology Emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and the Founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Center and Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation. A pioneer in research on sudden cardiac death, Dr. Lown developed the direct current defibrillator for resuscitating the arrested heart as well as the cardioverter for correcting disordered heart rhythms. He also introduced the use of the drug Lidocaine for the control of disturbances of the heartbeat. Dr. Lown’s innovative research established the role of psychological and behavioral factors on heart rhythms and as provocative factors of sudden death.

As an author or co-author of four books relating to medicine and over 400 research articles published in peer reviewed medical journals worldwide, Dr. Lown’s work is prolific in the world of cardiology. In addition to his upcoming book Prescription for Survival, Dr. Lown has authored the books: The Lost Art of Healing (Houghton Mifflin, 1996), a critically acclaimed appeal for compassion in medicine and repair of the sacred trust that once bound physicians and patients in a healing partnership, and Practicing the Art While Mastering the Science (Harbinger Medical press, 1995) a collection of his ruminations on medicine.

Dr. Lown has long been an activist to abolish nuclear weapons and promote world peace. In 1962, he cofounded the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and became its first president. The organization helped educate millions of people on the medical consequences of nuclear war. From 1974 to 1975, he presided over the USA-China Physicians Friendship Association, and served as coordinator of collaborative studies with the USSR on cardiovascular disease on behalf of the National Heart and Lung Institute.

In 1980, he cofounded with Dr. Evgeni Chazov, of the former Soviet Union, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Drs. Lown and Chazov served as IPPNW’s first Co-Presidents, and in 1985, they were co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW. Dr. Lown is also the recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize (with Dr. Chazov), the George F. Kennan Award, the Ghandi Peace Prize, and the first Cardinal Medeiros Peace Award, as well as 20 honorary degrees from leading universities both in the USA and abroad. In 1993, he delivered the most distinguished Indira Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi.

Dr. Lown is the founder and emeritus Chairman of SATELLIFE, an international non-profit organization that uses satellite and Internet technologies to serve the health communication and information needs of developing countries. Dr. Lown is the founder of ProCor, an ongoing, worldwide, e-mail- and web-based electronic conference that addresses the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in the developing world.

Additionally, Dr. Lown has delivered more than 150 named lectures globally. He has been five times named Master Teacher of the American College of Cardiology and has been selected honorary member of a number of medical and cardiac societies including those from Australia and New Zealand, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Colombia, Croatia, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland as well as the Institute of Medicine (USA). Dr. Lown is also Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among numerous other honors and recognition are the Golden Door Award; International Institute of Boston; the Dr. Paul Dudley White Award; American Heart Association; Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Harvard School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award; and the highest recognition bestowed by Lithuania, the Cross of Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. Dr. Lown graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maine and received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He lives in Newton, MA, with his wife Louise. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF’s actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols.

Irwin Rosenberg

University Professor and the Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School, Irwin Rosenberg is the 2006 recipient of the Conrad Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition, which recognizes distinguished service to the public through nutrition science. He received the award from the American Society of Clinical Nutrition in April at the 2006 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Francisco. Throughout his career, Rosenberg has participated in many national and international nutrition policy efforts and has held positions on committees for the Food and Drug Administration and the Institute of Medicine. Since joining Tufts, Rosenberg has served as dean of the Friedman School for nine years and director of the HNRCA for 15 years. Currently, Rosenberg directs the Nutrition and Neurocognition Laboratory at the HNRCA.

Dr. Rosenberg’s research interests include nutrition and aging; folate nutriture; and the relationship between homocysteine, B vitamin nutriture, vascular disease and cognitive decline.

Returning Recipients

Izzeldin Abuelaish

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, is Palestinian medical doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee Camp is a passionate and eloquent proponent of peace between Palestinians and Israelis. Before his three daughters were killed in January 2009 during the Israeli incursion into Gaza, Dr. Abuelaish worked as a researcher at the Gertner Institute at the Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv. Abuelaish has been an important figure in the Israeli-Palestinian relations for years, working in Israeli hospitals, treating Israeli and Palestinian patients and fully believe that health is an engine for the journey to peace. This horrific tragedy did not harden Abuelaish’s heart; neither did it weaken his resolve to act for humanity. He continues to live up the description bestowed upon him by an Israeli colleague, as a magical, secret bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish currently is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; University Of Toronto. He has been invited to give speeches in The European Parliament, Belgian Parliament, House of Commons, the American Congress, state department, Forum 2000 in Prague. In addition, he has given speeches all over the world in academic institutions, Universities and organizations in Canada, USA and Europe.

Jonathan Moreno

Jonathan D. Moreno is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he edits the magazine, Science Progress. He is one of 13 Penn Integrates Knowledge university professors at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of medical ethics and health policy, of history and sociology of science, and of philosophy. In 2008-09 he served as a member of President Barack Obama’s transition team. Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and is a national associate of the National Research Council. He has served as a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions, including the current bioethics commission under President Obama, and has given invited testimony for both houses of Congress. Moreno has served as adviser to many nongovernmental organizations, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Neuroethics Society, a faculty affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, a fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine, and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He advises various science, health, and national security agencies and serves as a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s TIGER committee on potentially disruptive novel technologies.

James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and studied Art History and Political Science in college. Images from the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were in- strumental in his decision to become a photographer. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver. In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike. Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States. Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1984. He was associated with Black Star from 1980 - 1985 and was a member of Magnum from 1986 until 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Palazzo Esposizione in Rome, El Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Carolinum in Prague, the Hasselblad Center in Sweden, the Canon Gallery and the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, among others. He has received numerous honors such as the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award twice, Magazine Photographer of the Year (six times), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award three times, the Leica Award twice, the Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents (twice), the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Canon Photo essayist Award and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography.

Gwyn Prins

Dr. Prins is a research professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the First Alliance Professor appointed jointly at the LSE and the Columbia Earth Institute. He has also taught in the Department of History and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a Senior Fellow in the Office of the Secretary-General of NATO in Brussels and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory of the UK Ministry of Defence, as well as a consultant on security at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the British Meteorological Office. In 1999-2000, he chaired an MoD Chatham House study group on the roots of asymmetric violence and contemporary terrorism. He is a member of the Pugwash Working Groups on Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century and on the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. He is the coeditor of The Future of War and the author of Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations and The Heart of War.

Susannah Sirkin

Susannah Sirkin is Deputy Director at Physicians for Human Rights, a position she has held since 1987 when she joined PHR shortly after its founding. She has helped lead PHR's campaigns against Persecution of Health Workers, including the current efforts to free the Alaei brothers, two Iranian doctors with expertise in HIV/AIDS treatment who are imprisoned in Tehran on false charges. Susannah has organized health and human rights investigations to dozens of countries, including recent documentation of genocide and systematic rape in Darfur, Sudan; PHR's exhumations of mass graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunals; investigations into consequences of human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Kosovo, Kuwait, Somalia, Turkey and the US among others. She has worked on studies of sexual violence in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, and Thailand, and authored and edited numerous reports and articles on the medical consequences of human rights violations, physical evidence of human rights abuses, and physician complicity in violations