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Gavin M. Yamey, Hymowitz Family Professor of the Practice in Global Health  

Office Phone: (919) 613-6221
Email Address: gavin.yamey@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    M.P.H., London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom), 2010
    M.B.B.S., University College London (United Kingdom), 1994

    Teaching (Spring 2024):

    • Glhlth 755.01, Global health policy Synopsis
      Trent 040, M 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Mao, W; Watkins, D; Sabin, ML; Huang, K; Langlois, E; Ogundeji, Y; Fogstad, H; Schäferhoff, M; Yamey, G; Ogbuoji, O. "Effects of public financing of essential maternal and child health interventions across wealth quintiles in Nigeria: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.." The Lancet. Global Health 11.4 (April, 2023): e597-e605. [doi]  [abs]
    2. Reid, M; Yamey, G; Goosby, E; Jamison, D; Schäferhoff, M. "Seizing opportunities to end TB: a call for ambition and optimism on World TB Day.." Lancet (London, England) 401.10383 (April, 2023): 1153. [doi]
    3. Ogundeji, YK; Tinuoye, O; Bharali, I; Mao, W; Ohiri, K; Ogbuoji, O; Orji, N; Yamey, G. "Is Nigeria on course to achieve universal health coverage in the context of its epidemiological and financing transition? A knowledge, capacity and policy gap analysis (a qualitative study).." Bmj Open 13.3 (March, 2023): e064710. [doi]  [abs]
    4. Alwan, A; Majdzadeh, R; Yamey, G; Blanchet, K; Hailu, A; Jama, M; Johansson, KA; Musa, MYA; Mwalim, O; Norheim, OF; Safi, N; Siddiqi, S; Zaidi, R. "Country readiness and prerequisites for successful design and transition to implementation of essential packages of health services: experience from six countries.." Bmj Global Health 8.Suppl 1 (January, 2023): e010720. [doi]  [abs]
    5. McDade, KK; Kleidermacher, P; Yamey, G; Mao, W. "Estimating Chinese bilateral aid for health: an analysis of AidData's Global Chinese Official Finance Dataset Version 2.0.."  December, 2022: e010408. [doi]  [abs]

    Highlight:

    Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH, trained in clinical medicine at Oxford University and University College London, medical journalism and editing at the BMJ and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was Deputy Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, Assistant Editor at the BMJ, a founding Senior Editor of PLOS Medicine, and the Principal Investigator on a $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the launch of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. In 2009, he was awarded a Kaiser Family Mini-Media Fellowship in Global Health Reporting to examine the barriers to scaling up low cost, low tech health tools in Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.

    Dr. Yamey serves on two international health commissions, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He has been an External Advisor to the WHO and to TDR, the Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. Dr. Yamey has published extensively on global health, neglected diseases, health policy, and disparities in health and has been a frequent commentator on National Public Radio.

    Before joining Duke, Dr. Yamey led the Evidence-to-Policy Initiative in the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and was an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatics at the UCSF School of Medicine.

    Gavin M. Yamey