Nils Daulaire

Nils Daulaire (born November 24, 1948) is an American physician and the former assistant secretary for global affairs^[1] at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).^[2][3] 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.^[4]

Dr. Nils Daulaire
Born	November 24, 1948 (1948-11-24) (age 76)
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins (M.P.H.), Harvard Medical School (M.D.), Harvard College (B.A.)
Occupation(s)	1st Assistant Secretary of the Office of Global Affairs, HHS
Known for	Public Health
Spouse	Mary Taylor
Children	2

Early life and education

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.^{[citation needed]} He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1976, with residency in training at the University of Colorado.^{[citation needed]} He earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1978.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Daulaire began his career working in primary health programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where he carried out field research on child survival.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} He also served in Mali as a technical advisor on primary health.^{[citation needed]} He has worked extensively in Haiti, Bangladesh and other low-income countries.^{[citation needed]}

Daulaire has directed multiple child health research projects, especially in the areas of community-based management of childhood pneumonia and vitamin A supplementation.^[5]

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).^{[citation needed]} At USAID, he oversaw an integrated global strategy that encompassed programs totaling more than $1 billion annually.^{[citation needed]} He was responsible for health, population, girls’ education, and other social sector programs.^{[citation needed]}

From 1998 until his appointment at HHS in 2010, Daulaire was the president and CEO of the Global Health Council,^{[citation needed]} 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:^[6]

• The Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (1994)^[7]
• The Beijing World Conference of Women (1995)^[8]
• The Rome World Food Summit (1996)^[9]

Academia and accreditation

Daulaire is board certified in preventive medicine and public health.^{[citation needed][10]}

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."^[11] 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."^[12]

Daulaire has been elected to membership in both the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations.^{[citation needed]}