Nils Daulaire

Nils Daulaire (born 1948) is an American physician and the former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).[1] Daulaire has been at HHS since 2010, and became Assistant Secretary in December 2012. He also served as the U.S. Representative on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board, a post he was nominated to by President Barack Obama.[2]

Dr. Nils Daulaire
BornNovember 24, 1948 (1948-11-24) (age 71)
Alma materJohns Hopkins (M.P.H.),
Harvard Medical School (M.D.),
Harvard College (B.A.)
Occupation1st Assistant Secretary of the Office of Global Affairs, HHS
Known forpublic health
PredecessorWilliam R. Stieger
Spouse(s)Mary Taylor
Children2 (Siri and Lief)

Early life and education

Nils Daulaire is the son of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, multiple award-winning writers and illustrators of children's books.[3]

Daulaire received a bachelor's degree in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard College in 1970 where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1976 with residency in training at the University of Colorado. He earned a Masters of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1978.

Career

Nils Daulaire began his career working for 20 years in primary health programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America where he carried out field research on child survival. During his two decades conducting fieldwork in maternal and child health, he spent five years in residence in Nepal where he served as senior advisor to the Ministry of Health. He also served in Mali as a technical advisor on primary health. He has worked extensively in Haiti, Bangladesh, and other low-income countries.

Daulaire has directed multiple pioneering child health research projects, especially in the areas of community based management of childhood pneumonia and Vitamin A supplementation.[4]

From 1993 to 1998, Daulaire served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy and Senior International Health Advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). At USAID, he oversaw an integrated global strategy that encompassed programs totaling more than $1 billion annually. He was responsible for health, population, girls’ education, and other social sector programs.

From 1998 until his appointment at HHS in 2010, Dr. Daulaire was the president and CEO of the Global Health Council, an international nonprofit membership organization that represents global health service providers and policy advocates. While there, he promoted public health causes in developing countries.

Daulaire has testified before the United States Congress on numerous occasions, represented the United States at five WHO annual assemblies and has been the lead U.S. negotiator at a number of international meetings on health including:[5]

  • The Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (1994)[6]
  • The Beijing World Conference of Women (1995)[7]
  • The Rome World Food Summit (1996)[8]

Daulaire has provided technical assistance to more than 20 countries encompassing all regions of the world, and he speaks seven languages.

Academia and accreditation

Daulaire is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

He has been Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and a Senior Visiting Scholar on Global Health Security at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Daulaire served as a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2016. He taught a course in the Department of Global Health and Population titled, "Making Policy Leadership Matter for Global Health: Navigating Choppy Political Seas in the Real World."[9] Daulaire also participated as a speaker on Voices in Leadership, an original Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health webcast series, in a session titled, "Negotiating Act Three for Global Health on the World’s Stage."[10]

Daulaire has been elected to membership in both the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Family

Daulaire is married to Mary Taylor. They have two children.

References
  1. "Office of Global Affairs Bio". Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2017-09-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "New York Review Books". www.nybooks.com.
  4. Daulaire, N. M.; Starbuck, E. S.; Houston, R. M.; Church, M. S.; Stukel, T. A.; Pandey, M. R. (1992-01-25). "Childhood mortality after a high dose of vitamin A in a high risk population". BMJ. 304 (6821): 207–210. doi:10.1136/bmj.304.6821.207. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 1881470. PMID 1739794.
  5. "President of Global Health Council to give talk at School of Public Health || UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health". sph.unc.edu. September 10, 2004. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  6. "International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)". www.un.org.
  7. "Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women – Beijing, 4-15 September 1995". undocs.org. United Nations. A/CONF.177/20/Rev.1. Retrieved 18 March 2017. Nils Daulaire is not explicitly mentioned in this document.
  8. "World Food Summit". www.fao.org.
  9. "Former Fellows". www.hsph.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  10. "Nils Daulaire, Former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services". www.hsph.harvard.edu. 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
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