ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER BIOGRAPHIES Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta Founding Chair of the Division of Women and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Pakistan Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Noordin Noormahomed Sheriff Professor & Founding Chair of the Division of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. He also holds adjunct professorships in International Health & Family and Community Medicine at the departments of International Health at the Boston University and Tufts University, Boston respectively. He was designated a Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan in 2007. He is also the Dean of the faculty of Paediatrics of the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Pakistan and the Chairman of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan. Professor Bhutta was educated at the University of Peshawar, MBBS, and obtained his PhD from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Scotland, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He has served numerous advisory committees and is currently an executive committee member of the International Paediatric Association and on the Board of the Global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, PMNCH, as well a council member for the International Society for Infectious diseases, ISID, and the governing council for the World Alliance for Patient Safety Research. He is a member of the Quantitative Vaccine Research, QUIVER, the Strategic Advisory Group of Vaccines for WHO (SAGE), the Advisory Committee for Health Research of WHO EMRO, and its apex Regional Consultative Committee. Professor Bhutta’s research interests include newborn and child survival, maternal and child undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. He is on several international editorial advisory boards including the Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine, PLoS ONE and the Cochrane ARI group. Professor Bhutta has published four books, 55 book chapters, and over 360 indexed publications to date. He leads a large research group based in Pakistan with a special interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence based interventions in community settings and health systems research. He has won several awards, including the Tamgha‐i‐Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan for contributions towards education and research (2000), the President of Pakistan Gold Medal for contributions to Child Health in Pakistan (2004) and the Outstanding Paediatrician of Asia award by the Asia Pacific Pediatric Association (2006). Professor Bhutta was awarded the inaugural Global Child Health award (2009) by the Program for Global Pediatric Research for outstanding contributions to Global Child Health and Research and has recently been elected an honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics for contributions to international child health.
Luis Gabriel Cuervo Senior Advisor, Research Promotion and Development, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Luis Gabriel Cuervo qualified in Colombia as a Medical Doctor and then went on to specialize in Family Medicine. Early on in his career he developed a passion for evidence based health care and obtained an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics. His professional career began as a clinician, academic and researcher at the Javeriana University in Bogota. He later became a Clinical Editor for BMJ’s Clinical Evidence in London, where he also further developed his interest in promoting access and better use of research evidence to guide health care, with emphasis in the developing world. His professional career has had a strong component of knowledge development and management, including needs identification as well as synthesizing and localizing evidence to inform health care decisions. He has remained an active contributor to debates and initiatives in these various fronts, publishing widely and speaking at international congresses. From his position at BMJ Clinical Evidence, he emphasized evidence programmes and access to developing countries and worked closely with the World Health Organization and International NGOs, including the Cochrane Collaboration. In September 2005 Luis Gabriel took office as Unit Chief of Research Promotion & Development of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) where he championed the development, and now the implementation, of the Policy on Research for Health approved by Member States in 2009. He has also championed the response to the Mexico Declaration (Mexico Ministerial Summit on Health Research 2004) and the Bamako Call to Action 2008 (Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health), developing policies and strengthening the governance and stewardship of research for health. He has been a strong advocate for better research, the use of tools that facilitate knowledge translation and sound and practical approaches to make the best use of research evidence for public health, equity and development. Dr. Cuervo is the ex‐officio Secretary to PAHOs Ethics Review Committee and PAHOs Advisory Committee on Health Research. David de Ferranti President, Results for Development Institute David de Ferranti is the President (and founder) of Results for Development. He was previously the World Bank’s Regional Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean from 1999 to 2005, and in this position responsible for a $25 billion loan portfolio. From 1994 to 1999, he oversaw the Bank’s research and financial support to countries worldwide in the areas of health, education, nutrition, and other
social services. In addition, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, an advisor to Carlos Slim and his infrastructure investment group in Latin America, and an advisor to an emerging high‐tech enterprise. Earlier in his career he held management positions at Rand (the think tank), and in the U.S. government. He is presently the Chair of the Board of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and serves as Chair or Co‐Chair of The Health Financing Task Force, The Task Force on Health Workforce Costs and Financing, and The Working Group on AIDS Costs and Financing. Other board memberships have included: The Rockefeller Foundation (where he chaired the Finance Committee); Transparency International ‐ USA; The Inter‐American Dialogue; The Pew Memorial Trust International Health Advisory Panel; Technoserve, Inc.; The Center for Global Development Advisory Panel; The Lewis T. Preston Education Program; The Escuela Nueva Foundation; and The Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University. He has two children, a daughter and a son, and lives near Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos Programme Head: Health & Family Planning Systems at ICDDR,B Dr. Koehlmoos heads the Health & Family Planning Systems Programme at ICDDR,B in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She specializes in health systems research ranging from improving service delivery in hard‐to‐reach areas and to the urban homeless and demand side financing, to more downstream areas to include the translation of evidence to policy and the effectiveness of non‐state interventions like social franchising. She leads the Centre for Systematic Review at ICDDR,B, which specializes in reviews of health policy and systems issues in the non‐state sector and is building systematic review capacity across South Asia. She is the Principal Investigator of the national scale up of zinc for the treatment of childhood diarrhea in Bangladesh. She founded the Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases in Bangladesh, which includes expansive research, education and knowledge translation components. She has experience leading and mentoring international research teams in resource poor settings to ensure on‐time and high quality delivery to development partners including the CDC, WHO, DfID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NIH‐NHLBI, SIDA, GIZ and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh. Dr. Koehlmoos is an adjunct professor in the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and in the College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Medical Case Reports, serves on the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee, and blogs for the British Medical Journal. She has lived and worked in South Asia for most of her adult life and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the World Food Programme. Her publications appear in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
the Lancet, PLoS Medicine, Vaccine, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Health Policy & Planning, and Health Research Policy & Systems among others. Maureen McWhirter Research Evidence Support Officer, Research and Evidence Division, DFID Maureen McWhirter is the Research Evidence Support Officer in the Research Uptake Team, Research and Evidence Division, Department for International Development (DFID). She is the central contact for DFID's systematic review programme and she also provides support for the Research4Development (R4D) research portal. She previously worked in the Openness Unit at DFID, managing the Public Enquiry Point and answering Freedom of Information requests. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Studies and M.A. English Language and Literature. Debbie Muirhead Director of Research Programme, Australian Agency for International Development Debbie Muirhead is Director of AusAID's Research Program which includes systematic reviews in international development. She holds a PhD in health economics and has development experience in a number of countries, including long‐term postings in South Africa and Indonesia. Indran Naidoo Deputy‐Director General for Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Service Commission of South Africa Indran Naidoo is the Deputy Director‐General for M&E at the Public Service Commission of South Africa, where he has helped develop M&E systems and engage with stakeholders and departments on evaluation results. Prior to being appointed as Deputy‐Director General for M&E, Indran created and led South Africa’s first M&E unit at the National Department of Land Affairs. His organisation, the Public Service Commission, has been the key player in M&E in South Africa and also holds the leadership of the Association of African Public Service Commissions in Africa (AAPSCOMS), which seeks to advance good governance on the continent. He holds graduate qualifications in English and post‐graduate in Education and Geography (MA in development studies). He is visiting faculty at the International Programme for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), has participated in executive management courses at Oxford and Harvard universities. He has served on evaluation advisory panels such as the Joint United Nations Country Evaluation and the Network for Network on Impact Evaluation (NONIE), and played a key role as Conference Co‐Chair of the African Evaluation Association in 2004, and centrally managed the
2007 and 2009 SAMEA Conferences. He is an elected Board member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) and the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). Indran has received several awards and scholarships, publishes and presents papers internationally on M&E, and is currently completing his PhD in M&E. Professor Sandy Oliver Deputy Director, Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI‐Centre, Institute of Education Sandy Oliver is a Professor of Public Policy and Deputy Director at the Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI‐Centre at the Institute of Education (University of London). Her research interests centre on participatory approaches to doing and using research. She leads the EPPI‐Centre’s support for four southern hemisphere review centres funded by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (WHO), for 20 DFID commissioned reviews and for review teams funded by 3ie, AusAID and DFID. She is an editor of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group, and a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Clinical Practice Guidelines and Research Methods and Ethics, and the international Task Force on Guidelines for Health Systems Strengthening Group. Anthony Petrosino Senior Research Associate, WestEd Petrosino serves as Senior Research Associate for Learning Innovations at WestEd and Associate Director of Research for the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands (REL‐NEI). He specializes in social policy research, particularly in areas of criminal justice and juvenile delinquency, with an emphasis in evaluation. As the Associate Director of Research at REL‐NEI, he helps conduct policy‐ relevant studies designed to meet research priorities in the region, using a range of methodological approaches. He is Co‐Investigator of a National Institute of Justice‐funded randomized experimental evaluation of a school‐based resiliency programme, collaborates on three systematic review projects on school enrolment programs in developing nations and has collaborated on a Campbell Collaboration review on the effects of formal processing on juvenile delinquency and a review of evaluations of police‐ schools interventions for George Mason University. Prior to joining WestEd, Petrosino served as a research and evaluations consultant for various education and other institutions including Harvard University, the Canadian Department of Justice, the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and the U.K. Home Office.
Petrosino also helped develop the Campbell Collaboration, specifically Campbell’s first register of experimental studies (known as C2‐SPECTR), its first review (on the "Scared Straight" juvenile delinquency prevention program), and one of its first substantive groups (Crime & Justice Group). He received a Distinguished Service Award from the Campbell Crime and Justice Group for his service as Founding Coordinator. Petrosino has published approximately 60 articles and won the Pro Humanitate Literary Award from the North American Child Welfare Resource Center for one of his papers. He has co‐edited four special journal volumes, one of which was nominated by the Australasian Evaluation Society in 2001 as the best contribution to the evaluation literature. He serves on the Editorial Boards for Evidence & Policy and the Journal of Experimental Criminology. In 2005, he was elected "Honorary Fellow" by the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Petrosino received a BA in justice and law from Rowan University of New Jersey (formerly Glassboro State College), an MA in criminal justice from Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, and a PhD in criminal justice from Rutgers University. He was awarded a Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Children’s Initiative in 1997 in "the evaluation of programs for children," and served as Research Fellow for the Center for Evaluation at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Michael Kent Ranson Technical Officer, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization Kent is a medical doctor and health economist. Before joining the Alliance in 2007, he spent almost ten years studying and then working with the Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Over a four year period (2003‐2006) he led a cluster randomized trial that assessed, and implemented interventions to optimize, the impact of a community‐based insurance programme in Gujarat, India. At the Alliance, Kent's work includes identifying, initiating and supervising research programmes supported by the Alliance HPSR. In 2010, Kent took leave from the Alliance to manage the secretariat of the First Global Symposium for Health Systems Research. Dr. Peter Tugwell Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa Dr. Peter Tugwell is Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology & Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Equity. He is a staff physician and practicing rheumatologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
In 2001, Dr. Tugwell took the post of Director for the Centre for Global Health at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. He has built a research program and multidisciplinary team around his Canada Research Chair in Health Equity. The goal of this program is to improve the health status of the poor and middle class and reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health, through facilitating the summarising and dissemination of systematic reviews of educational, health, legal and social strategies to reduce inequitable inequalities in health in individuals and populations. Dr. Tugwell received his medical degree from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School at London University, and subsequently worked at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria in Nigeria, McMaster University in Hamilton, and the University of Ottawa. He was Chair of the McMaster University Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and then Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Tugwell was Founding Director of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network Training Centre at McMaster University, currently serves as Secretary General to INCLEN's North American group (CanUSAClen) and holds several fellowships. Dr. Tugwell is co‐director of a WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity as well as a member of the Organizing Committee of OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials). Dr. Tugwell is co‐chair of the Campbell International Development Coordinating Group, the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group and the Co‐Convenor of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group. He is on the Executive of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group and part of the Steering Group of the Campbell Collaboration. Dr. Tugwell is Co‐Editor of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and serves as a member of the editorial board of a number of journals and his publication record includes over 300 journal articles, monographs, and book chapters. Many of these have been in the area of rheumatology, focusing on the assessment of therapeutic interventions and mechanisms of disease; more recently the focus has been on research into the disadvantaged, global health and health equity, knowledge translation, decision support and consumer participation in research and health care, and the evaluation and development of educational strategies in the teaching of medicine. Jeffrey C. Valentine College of Education & Human Development, University of Louisville, USA Jeffrey is an associate professor at the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville. A social psychologist by training, most of Jeffrey’s scholarly work involves systematic reviewing and meta‐analysis. His primary interest is in improving the rigor with which systematic reviews are conducted, in order to increase their trustworthiness and utility. Jeffrey is the co‐editor of the Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta‐Analysis (2nd edition), and has conducted related
empirical work. He is also the former co‐chair of the Methods Group of the Campbell Collaboration, the current co‐chair of the Campbell Collaboration’s Training Group, and a statistical editor in the Cochrane Collaboration’s Developmental, Psychosocial, and Learning Problems group. Another area of Jeffrey’s work focuses on the use of systematic reviewing and meta‐analysis to issues related to public policy He has conducted and is currently working on several systematic reviews and meta‐ analyses on the effects of different interventions on enrolment and educational achievements. Jeffrey holds a BA in Psychology from the University of New Mexico, an MA in Psychology from the Northern Arizona University and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Missouri. He is a member of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, Educational Psychology, the Society for Prevention Research and the Society for Research Synthesis Methods. Professor Howard White Executive Director, 3ie Professor Howard White is the Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), co‐chair of the Campbell International Development Coordinating Group, and Adjunct Professor, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Geelong University. His previous experience includes leading the impact evaluation program of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and before that, several multi‐country evaluations. Other experience leading large projects includes the World Bank published report African Poverty at the Millennium, and developing the overall direction of poverty training for 2,000 DFID staff at country offices around the world. Professor White has worked extensively on development‐related issues in countries across Africa and Asia, has published over 60 papers in internationally refereed journals and several books, focusing on aid effectiveness and poverty reduction. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies and the Journal of Development Effectiveness. He has taught at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and continues to engage worldwide via workshops and training opportunities for policy‐makers on topics related to development effectiveness and impact evaluation. David Tovey Editor in Chief, Cochrane Collaboration David Tovey is the Cochrane Library's first Editor‐in‐Chief. He was previously Editorial Director of the BMJ Group's "Knowledge" division, responsible for
BMJ Clinical Evidence and its sister product BestTreatments. David graduated from Bristol University in 1983. After completing vocational GP training, he was senior partner in a large, inner city practice in South London, and a postgraduate CPD tutor until 2003, when he joined the BMJ Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Hugh Waddington Senior Evaluation Officer, 3ie Hugh is an Economist by training and manages 3ie’s Systematic Reviews Programme and the Campbell Collaboration International Development Coordinating Group. Before joining 3ie, Hugh was employed as an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow in the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Rwanda, where he worked on the elaboration of Rwanda’s Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP2). He has previously worked with the Economist Intelligence Unit, UK National Audit Office, Save the Children UK and the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department. Hugh holds an MA in Development Economics from the University of Sussex. Birte Snilstveit Evaluation Officer, 3ie Birte Snilstveit assists in coordinating and developing 3ie’s Systematic Reviews Programme in London. She works with Hugh Waddington in coordinating the Reviews commissioned by 3ie and the Campbell Collaboration International Development Coordinating Group, where she also acts as an editor. She is a co‐ author for Reviews on "Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to combat childhood diarrhoea in developing countries" and "Interventions to promote social cohesion in sub‐Saharan Africa" as well as a scoping study on "Impact evaluation and interventions to address climate change". Birte started working for 3ie after completing her MA in Political Economy of Development from University of Birmingham, UK. She also holds a BSc in Politics with Sociology from Aston University.
Rachel Blackman Systematic Review Lead, Research and Evidence Division, DFID Rachel is the central contact for DFID's systematic review programme. She worked previously in various roles at the Home Office and UK Border Agency. Before joining the civil service, she wrote and edited a number of practical publications for grassroots development workers and organisations on a range of development topics and organisational development issues. She started her career as a Research Officer at the Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex. Rachel holds an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management from the University of Birmingham and a BA in Development Studies from the University of Liverpool. Marie Gaarder Deputy Director of 3ie Named head of evaluation of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation Marie Gaarder, currently the Deputy Director of 3ie, has been named to head the Evaluation Department of Norad, the Norwegian government's development agency which she will be joining in October. She has over 12 years’ experience managing operational and research projects with a development focus. Prior to joining 3ie, Marie worked as a Social Development Economist at the Inter‐American Development Bank, specializing in health and social protection programs in Central America. Earlier experience includes as a visiting researcher at the World Bank and Statistics Norway, teaching development‐, macro, and micro‐economics at University College London, environmental consultant at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group in Norway, and research assistant at the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Marie holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London, an M.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics, and Masters in Arabic, Political Science and Economics from the Universities of Hamburg, Germany, and Oslo, Norway.