Donald Bundy is Professor of Epidemiology and Development at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has worked for more than 30 years on the role of school health and nutrition programmes in the development of school-age children and adolescents, especially in low-income countries. He is the Director of the Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, and advisor to the World Food Programme in Rome, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in London, the World Bank in Washington DC, and several national governments.
Before joining LSHTM in 2018 he was Senior Advisor to the Global Health Team of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in Seattle and London. Previously he served for 15 years (1999-2014) at the World Bank in Washington DC, and as Lead Health Specialist focused on the interface between the health and education sectors, and coordinated the Bank’s programme for NTDs and the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control. These policy roles built on his earlier academic career (1979-1999) at the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and the University of the West Indies.
Donald founded The Partnership for Child Development in 1992, which was recognised as best practice in the UK Parliamentary Review 2019, and co-led the creation of The FRESH Framework at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000.
Donald has authored more than more than 400 books and scientific publications, including Rethinking School Feeding in 2009, and produced award-winning documentary films on the role of public health in development, including a series for the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). He has contributed to all three editions of the World Bank’s Disease Control Priorities since 1993, and in the 2018 edition led Volume 8, Child and Adolescent Health and Development, which has been re-printed twice with the World Food Programme and with the Global Partnership for Education. He was editorial advisor to UN World Food Programme "State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020".
