Amanda Glassman

Amanda L. Glassman[1] is the vice president for programs, the director of global health policy, and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a US nonprofit think tank based in Washington, DC that focuses on international development.[2][3][4]

Biography

Glassman's parents were foreign service officers,[5] so she lived in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, and Russia throughout her childhood.[6] Glassman received her BA at Brown University in 1992 and MSc at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1996.[3]

Glassman served as the deputy director of the Global Health Financing Initiative at the Brookings Institution from 2005 to 2007.[7][3]

She served as the Principal Technical Lead for Health at the Inter-American Development Bank (2008–2010),[8] where she designed and evaluated public health programs including conditional cash transfer programs,[6] and designed the grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015.[9][3]

In October 2011, Glassman became the director of global health policy at the Center for Global Development.[10] At the Center for Global Development, Glassman has worked on demand-side financing in Africa and incentives for health, as well as allocative efficiency.[6] She has studied state-level health policy in large decentralized countries like India, Pakistan, and Nigeria. In contrast with the World Bank and other organizations that work at the national level in these countries, Glassman has worked at the state level.[11]

Views

Glassman has defended the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's focus on vaccines, stating "For me, vaccination is the quintessential public health intervention. If we can't get that right, we probably shouldn't be doing other things."[12]

Glassman has criticized the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for lack of transparency, writing that "very little quality information exists on how and where Global Fund money is spent, and what it is accomplishing" and that the "Global Fund must put as much energy into getting results as delivering rhetoric, pursuing performance verification with no less vigour than advocacy".[13]

Bibliography

As of June 2016, Glassman has authored or coauthored at least 52 publications,[14] including articles in The Guardian.[15] Some of these are as follows:

See also

External links

References

  1. 1 2 From Few to Many. Inter-American Development Bank, Brookings Institution. 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Millions saved: how to make sure global health programs work". The Guardian. March 22, 2016. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Amanda Glassman". Center for Global Development. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ Glassman, Amanda (April 7, 2016). "A Progress Report on the West Africa Ebola Epidemic" (PDF). Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ Elie Dolgin (December 6, 2011). "Straight talk with... Amanda Glassman". Nature Medicine.
  6. 1 2 3 "RBF Perspectives: Interview with Amanda Glassman on Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs)". RBF Health. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Amanda Glassman". Brookings Institution. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Amanda Glassman". Americas Quarterly. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Amanda Glassman". World Bank. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Amanda Glassman - Info". ResearchGate. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Conversation with Amanda Glassman on August 27, 2013" (PDF). GiveWell. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  12. ↑ Caroline Hartnell (September 1, 2011). "Interview – Amanda Glassman". Alliance Magazine. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  13. ↑ Amanda Glassman (September 27, 2016). "Global Fund's $15bn must buy results rather than rhetoric". The Guardian. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Amanda Glassman". ResearchGate. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  15. 1 2 "Amanda Glassman". The Guardian. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Background". Center for Global Development. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Millions Saved". Center for Global Development. Archived from the original on 2013-07-22. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
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