Ruth Levine
ExpertiseGlobal Health and social policy; proven successes in global health, incentives for vaccine R&D, evaluation InitiativesDemand Forecasting, Engaging Fragile States, When Will We Ever Learn? Closing the Evaluation Gap, Global Health Policy Research Network, HIV/AIDS Monitor: Tracking Aid Effectiveness, Making Markets for Vaccines, Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health, Population and Development Research AgendaResearch TopicsEducation, Global Health, Governance/Democracy, Migration and PopulationEducationPh.D. Johns Hopkins University; B.A. Cornell University BackgroundRuth 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. As CGD vice president for programs and operations, she is a member of the Center’s senior management team. She is also a CGD senior fellow and leads the Center’s work on global health policy, including chairing a series of working groups on key policy and finance constraints 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 The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank, 2001) and Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (CGD, 2004, updated as Cases in Global Health: Millions Saved (Jones and Bartlett, 2007)), as well as the major reports Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action (CGD, 2005), When Will We Ever Learn: Improving Lives through Impact Evaluation (CGD, 2006) and A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health through Better Demand Forecasting (CGD, 2007).
Non-CGD PublicationsCost Effectiveness of Immunization: Asking the Right Questions, in B. Bloom and P.H. Lambert (eds.), The Vaccine Book. Immunization Financing Options: Resources for Policymakers. The World Bank, 2002. The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (with M. Schneidman and A. Glassman) The World Bank, 2002. |
