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Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York and former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID under President Obama, driving the U.S. Government vision to end preventable child and maternal deaths and fostering global health security through innovation and health systems strengthening from 2011 to 2016.
Ariel’s career began working on the emergence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in New York City in 1991 and leading the first global report on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance at the World Health Organization (WHO), where he later served as Director of Knowledge Management, 2004-2007, working to bridge the know-do gap in global health.
At The Rockefeller Foundation from 1998 to 2004, he spearheaded public-private partnerships in R&D for diseases of poverty (e.g. the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development), the Foundation's strategy on AIDS treatment in Africa, and the Joint Learning Initiative on Human Resources for Health. In 2007, Ariel returned to Rockefeller as Managing Director and led the Foundation’s initiative to position universal health coverage on the international agenda.
Ariel received his M.D. from the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) and his M.P.H from Columbia University. He has over 150 publications and is a member of various boards and international commissions.
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