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 Jamison
is a Professor of Education and of Public Health at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He concurrently serves as Fellow of the Fogarty
International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and as an
Adjunct Professor in both the Peking University Guanghua School of
Management and in the University of Queensland School of Population
Health. Before joining the UCLA faculty in 1988, Jamison spent many
years at the World Bank where he was a senior economist in the research
department, task manager for projects and sector work in China and The
Gambia, division chief for education policy, and division chief for
population, health and nutrition. In 1992-93 he temporarily rejoined the
World Bank to serve as Director of the World Development Report Office
and as lead author for the Bank’s 1993 World Development Report,
Investing in Health. His publications are in the areas of economic
theory, public health and education. Jamison studied at Stanford (A.B.,
Philosophy; M.S., Engineering Sciences) and at Harvard (Ph.D.,
Economics, under K.J. Arrow). In 1994 he was elected to membership in
the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and
he currently chairs the Institute’s Board on Global Health.
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