Speaker Biographies

Tackling Malaria
The Role of DDT and New Drugs

December 2, 2003

Amir Attaran

is an immunologist and lawyer by training. His research emphasizes health and development in poor countries. His current publications and interests include studying the scarcity of international aid for control of epidemics and pandemics, the process of policy development in international aid for health, and the role of international patent law on access to medicines. His articles have been published in the Lancet, JAMA, the Yale Journal of International Law, and others. From 2001 to 2003, he was an invited speaker at the International AIDS Conference, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, the U.S. House of Representatives, and many universities and research institutes. His work on health policy has also appeared in the Washington Post, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Globe and Mail (Canada), and Boston Globe, among others. Mr. Attaran has held faculty positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and he is currently an associate fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London; and director of the Idealith Research Foundation, Boston. He is also a Barrister & Solicitor of the Law Society of British Columbia, Canada.

Lawrence Barat

is on assignment to the World Bank from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), serving as the Bank's Technical Specialist on Malaria. He has spent the last nine years with the CDC and the World Bank conducting field-based research, providing technical support on malaria control, and overseeing malaria control activities in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. At the World Bank, he oversees efforts to increase support for malaria control activities through World Bank-funded operations. He also serves as the World Bank's focal point for the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Global Partnership. Dr. Barat has recently led efforts to help the RBM Partnership address the rising costs of antimalarial drug treatment, in collaboration with the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs.

Roger Bate

is a visiting fellow at AEI. Before coming to AEI, Mr. Bate was director of the International Policy Network from 2001 to 2003, director of the Environmental Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 2003, and director of the European Science and Environment Forum from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Bate researches water policy in developing countries, health policy and endemic diseases in developing countries (AIDS and malaria), international environmental and health agreements (industrial chemicals, climate change, and water), the role of aid agencies and NGOs in developing countries, and genetically modified organism and pesticide policy in developing countries. He has written numerous articles and opinion pieces, as well as several books, including Saving Our Streams: The Role of the Anglers Conservation Association in Preventing Pollution in English and Welsh Rivers (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001); Malaria and the DDT Story (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001); and Life's Adventure: Virtual Risk in a Real World (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000).

John E. Calfee

is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland at College Park and Boston University, and he was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (distributed by AEI Press, 1997).

Mary Ettling is the Malaria Team Leader in the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Global Health. She has twenty years of experience with malaria control programs in Southeast Asia and Africa. Dr. Ettling spent eight years working with the malaria control program in Thailand and another ten years as a freelance consultant to a variety of institutions, including the Asian Development Bank, World Health Organization and USAID. Before she joined USAID in 1998 as malaria advisor to the Bureau for Africa, Dr. Ettling was the Malaria Technical Officer for the BASICS Project.

Jennifer D. Zambone

is the Washington, D.C. director of operations for Africa Fighting Malaria. Prior to joining AFM, she was the associate director of the Regulatory Studies Program of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She received a BA in Biology and English and a JD from Washington and Lee University.

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