DR. JIM M. SHERRY, MD, MPH
Dr. Jim Sherry has extensive program, policy, political, governance, and institutional development experience in global health, including seventeen years as a senior officer and director in the United Nations System with responsibilities ranging from the establishment of the Children’s Vaccine Initiative, UNAIDS, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to: the re-establishment of basic health care services in postwar Rwanda; supporting the negotiation of global health policy by the UN General Assembly and Security Council; providing support to the World Food Programme in the design of the Ending Child Hunger Initiative. Previous assignments have included serving as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in India as Director of Biomedical Research and Technology Development with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and as Chief of Staff for a Member of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. Currently, Dr. Sherry is serving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health of George Washington University.
Dr Sherry is currently a member of the PEPFAR Evaluation Committee (Subcommittee Vulnerable Populations), Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and the Global Health Resource Tracking Working Group, Global Health Policy Research Network, Center for Global Development. Dr. Sherry has had lecturing invitations in a variety of colleges and universities, both here in the United States and abroad. Some of the more recent lecturing invitations have been: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Impact of US Presidential Election on US Global Health Policy; University of Rome “La Sapienza”, International Research Centre in European and International Studies, Structure and Function of the International Health Organization; Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria, EU Accession and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Eastern Europe; and Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Access to Essential Drugs: Trade and Technology Barrier.
