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Prof. Christopher JL Murray, Dir, EIP, WHO-Geneva
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Prof. Christopher JL Murray
is an extraordinarily brilliant intellectual. Dr. Murray was the recipient of the
prestigious Rhode scholarship and the Harvard thesis prize. After graduating from the well
known Harvard College, Chris did his doctoral studies in International Health Economics at
the Oxford University, England. Later he studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
He is a fitting symbol of interdisciplinary work for improvement of the health systems and
state of health in the world. |
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Dr. Murray has been a
MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Later he
joined as a faculty at Harvard University and was awarded tenure professorship at a very
early age. Dr. Murray did path breaking work in development of summary measures of health
status and its application for priority setting in the health sector. His seminal work of
global disease burden estimates was published in the World Bank's World Development
Report, 1993 which was devoted to the health sector. Since then many revisions and updates
of Global disease burden have been published. Chris has engendered a series of activities
all over the world on informed health policy making and priority setting. His passion and
commitment to facilitate more informed health policy making is now eminently recognized by
the World Health Organization. It is heartening to note that the WHO thought it proper to
start a new initiative of Global Program of Evidence for Health Policy and invited Dr.
Murray to be at the head of this effort. Dr. Murray is currently the Director, Global
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| Institution and
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Degree
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Field of study
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| Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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AB |
1984
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Biology |
| Oxford University, England
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Dphil |
1987
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Intl. Health Economics
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| Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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MD |
1991
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Medicine |
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Academic Appointments
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| 1991-1994 |
Assistant
Professor of International Health Economics, Department of Population and International
Health, Harvard School of Public Health |
| 1994-1998 |
Associate Professor of
International Health Economics, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard
School of Public Health |
| 1998 |
Professor of International
Health Economics, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of
Public Health |
| 1994 |
Director, Burden of
Disease Unit, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies |
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Postdoctoral Training
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| 1989-1991 |
Research
Fellow, Department of Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health and Center for
Population and Development Studies, Harvard University |
| 1991-1995 |
Resident in Internal
Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| 1993-1996 |
Clinical Fellow in
Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Brockton / West Roxbury VA Medical |
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Honors and Awards
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| 1983 |
Rhodes Scholar |
| 1983 |
Marshall Scholar (declined) |
| 1984 |
T.Hoopes Prize (Harvard thesis
prize) |
| 1990-92 |
MacArthur Fellow |
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Professional
Memberships, Committees and Other Relevant Experience
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| 1987-1990 |
Staff
Economist, Commission on Health Research for Development |
| 1992-1993 |
Member of the
World Development Report 1993; Investing in Health writing team |
| 1992-1996 |
Chairman,
World Health Organization Steering Committee on Tuberculosis Operational Research |
| 1995-1996 |
Chair. Working
Group 1. WHO Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research Relating to Future Intervention Options |
| 1996 |
Member,
Technical and Research Advisory Committee, Global Program on Tuberculosis, World Health
Organization |
| 1998 |
Director,
Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization |
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