Research Topics
Aid Effectiveness, Education, Fragile States, Global Health Policy, Governance/Democracy
Education
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; B.A. Cornell University
Background
Ruth Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy. She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
In addition to serving as CGD vice president for programs and operations, she leads the Center’s work on global health policy, including chairing a series of working groups on solving key policy and finance problems related to the effective use of donor funding for health programs in low-income countries.
Before joining the CGD, Ruth designed, supervised, and evaluated loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the office of the executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Ruth has a doctoral degree in economic demography from Johns Hopkins University, and is the co-author of the books Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls (CGD, 2009), The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank, 2001), and Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (CGD, 2004), which has been updated with a new edition as Cases in Global Health: Millions Saved (Jones and Bartlett, 2007). She has also authored or co-authored major reports, including UNAIDS: Preparing for the Future (CGD and GEG, 2009), Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda (CGD, the Population Council and ICRW, 2008), A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health through Better Demand Forecasting (CGD, 2007), When Will We Ever Learn: Improving Lives through Impact Evaluation (CGD, 2006) and Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action (CGD, 2005).
Non-CGD Publications
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