Speaker

Joan Kaufman, Sc.D., is the Senior Director for Academic Programs at Schwarzman Scholars and Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She was Director of Columbia University’s Global Center for East Asia (Beijing) from 2012-2016, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy at Tsinghua University’s Research Center for Public Health. She founded and directed the AIDS Public Policy Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (2002-2010) and was also affiliated with Harvard’s Hauser Center for Non- Profit Organizations. From 2003-2012 she was at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management as a Distinguished Scientist, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Director of the Masters in Health Policy and Management. She was a Radcliffe fellow at Harvard from 2001- 2002 and a Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellow in 2005. She received a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health, following a BA and MA in Chinese Studies. She publishes on global health policy, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, reproductive health, population, emerging infectious diseases, and civil society with a focus on China. She worked in China for the United Nations (1980—1984), the Ford Foundation (1996-2001), the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (2002-2012), and Columbia University (2012- 2016). She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.