Scott Barrett
Scott Barrett, Professor of Environmental Economics & International Political Economy, is Director of both the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative and the International Policy Program at SAIS. His research is concerned with the interaction between natural and social systems, particularly at the international and global levels. His new research is on the international control of infectious diseases, but he is also writing on other issues, including global climate change and high seas over-fishing. For Scott Barrett's faculty page, please click here. Harley Feldbaum
Harley Feldbaum is Associate Director of the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He received a degree in Biology with Honors from Wesleyan University, a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins, and is completing his PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His current research focuses on the increasing interaction between the global health, foreign policy and security communities, and on the treatment of the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a security issue. For Harley Feldbaum's faculty page, please click here. Josh Michaud
Josh Michaud is completing his PhD with the International Policy Department at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His current research is focused on infectious diseases and international relations, particularly the political and economic aspects of emerging infectious diseases. He has worked as an Epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and as a Consultant with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Master's in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master's in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University. Judith R. Kaufmann
Judith Kaufmann is a Visiting Scholar with the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative. She is also a consultant on international health diplomacy. In that capacity, she has worked on projects for LMI Government Consulting, including a recent study of the international pediatric vaccine supply chain. From 2004 to 2005, she was Principal Research/Marketing Analyst for the HIV/AIDS Relief Program at DynCorp International. Previously, Ms. Kaufmann served as Director of the Office of International Health Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Her many responsibilities included work on the establishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; SARS; the health agenda of the G8; funding for polio eradication; bioterrorism and biosecurity; and avian influenza. Ms. Kaufmann’s experience in international health policy has also included work in Geneva, Switzerland at the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and as the first public-private partnerships coordinator for the World Health Organization’s Roll Back Malaria initiative. As a career Foreign Service Officer Ms. Kaufmann has served as Director, Orientation Division, National Foreign Affairs Training Center; Deputy Director for bilateral affairs in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL); and special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of DRL.
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