Richard G. A. Feachem, CBE, BSc, Ph, DSc (Med), FREng, FICE, FIWEM, HonFFPHM
	- Founding Director, Institute for Global Health - Undersecretary General of the United Nations - Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria - Professor of International Health, UCSF and UC Berkeley Phone: 415-597-8200 Fax: 415- 597-8299

Dr. Richard Feachem was appointed in April 1999 to be the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Health. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Feachem held the positions of Director and Senior Advisor for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank. Prior to this, he was Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) for six years. Dr. Feachem is currently Professor of International Health at both UCSF and UC Berkeley. In 2002, he was appointed as Undersecretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is on a leave of absence from his duties at the University of California, while he serves at the Global Fund in Geneva.

Principal Research Interests

- Health policy
- Health and economic development
- International health, environmental health, epidemiology

Principal Teaching Activities

International health policy

Selected University & Public Service

- Board Member and Treasurer, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
- Member, Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
- Member, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine
- Chair, Foundation Council, Global Forum for Health Research

Selected Publications

Feachem, R.G.A. 2001. Globalization is good for your health, mostly. British Medical Journal, 323, 504-506.

Feachem, R.G.A. (with seventeen other Commissioners). 2001. Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development. The Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Feachem, R.G.A., Sekhri, N.K., and White, K.L. 2002. Getting more for their dollar: a comparison of the NHS with CaliforniaÕs Kaiser Permanente. British Medical Journal, 324, 135-143.