WILLIAM MCGREEVEY
May 2010
William McGreevey is Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Georgetown University, where he teaches on economic demography, HIV and AIDS, and the political economy of health and development. As a consulting economist, he provides services on international development and health issues to UNAIDS and its ten co-sponsors, Futures Group and Futures Institute, and Results for Development Institute.
He has focused in recent years on strengthening health systems in developing countries. At the World Bank, 1980-97, he worked on poverty and living standards, urban, health, nutrition, and population projects, and managed training for Bank staff in these areas. He is author or editor of three books and several dozen articles. He was chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and taught economic history at UCBerkeley in the 1960s. He came to Wash DC in 1971 where he has worked at the OAS, Smithsonian Institution, Battelle Memorial Institute, World Bank, George Washington University, and Georgetown University.
Education
· Ph.D., Economics, MIT (1960 - 1965)
· Latin American Area studies, UC Berkeley (1963-64)
· BA, Ohio State University with honors in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa (1957-60); Mexico City College, Winter Quarter in Mexico (1959); Georgia Institute of Technology, Engineering Studies (1956-57)
COUNTRIES OF PROFESSIONAL WORK
Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, Russia, South Africa, former Soviet Union, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Tanzania, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, WRITINGS
With Carlos Avila, Robert Hecht, and Lori Bollinger. 2010. Fiscal space, policy space, and resource needs estimates, 2010-2030. Abstract submitted to International AIDS Society Meeting, July, 2010, Vienna, Austria.
With Brian Briscombe. 2010. Costs and Benefits Study of the NHIS/MDG Maternal and Child Health Project. Health Policy Initiative, Futures Group, Washington DC.
With Wang Weibing and others. 2009. Type 2 diabetes mellitus in China: a preventable economic burden. The American journal of managed care 15, 9, 593-601.
With Prasada Rao and others. 2009 Asian economies in rapid transition: HIV now and through 2031. Bangkok: UNAIDS Regional Support Team.
With Robert Hecht and others 2009. Critical choices in financing the response to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Health affairs 28, 6, 1591-1605.
With J Hammer, L MacKellar, and A Acharya. 2009. Propinquity Matters: How better health, urbanization, and total factor productivity grew together, 1870-2008; Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy XVI, 3, 605-33.
With Carlos Avila, Jose-Antonio Izazola, and Natalie Menser. 2009. HIV and AIDS programs – how they support health system strengthening. Presented as workshops on 12 February 09 and 30 April 09; to appear as a Results for Development Working Paper.
Measuring the system effects of the Global Fund with a focus on additionality, partnerships, and sustainability. The Global Fund: Geneva, 2005; with V. Walford, S-E Kruse, S. Post.
Ed., Third world poverty, new strategies for measuring development progress; Lexington Books, D.C. Heath, Lexington MA, 1980.
An economic history of Colombia, 1845-1930; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1971, reprinted 2008; Spanish ed., trans., Haroldo Calvo, Ediciones Tercer Mundo, Bogotá, 1971; reprinted 1975, 1978, 1982, 2005.
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