Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseer Member

Nils Daulaire, MD, MPH

Nils Daulaire is a Clinical Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. He is the immediate past president and CEO of the Global Health Council, the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to improving health throughout the world, where he served for over a decade and built a globally respected organization. Just prior to assuming leadership of the Council, Dr. Daulaire served as the senior international health advisor and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy at USAID in the Clinton Administration, developing an integrated global strategy that encompassed programs totaling over $1 billion annually. He was the U.S. lead negotiator on health at the Cairo International conference on Population and Development in 1994, the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995 and the Rome World Food Summit in 1996. He represented the U.S. at five World Health Organization (WHO) annual assemblies. Previously, he devoted fifteen years to field work and research in South Asia, Africa and Latin America, with a primary focus on child and maternal health and reproductive health. He has provided technical assistance to more than 25 countries and speaks seven languages.

A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University in 1970, Dr. Daulaire received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1976 with residency training in family medicine at the University of Colorado. He received his master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins in 1978 and is board-certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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