11 Facts About Dean Jamison

Dean Tecumseh Jamison was born on c 1943 and is an American economist and leader in the study of global health.

Dean Jamison is currently Senior Fellow in Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco and an Emeritus Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dean Jamison has published in health economics, global health, education economics, and decision theory.

Dean Jamison received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.

Dean Jamison's sister is psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, his daughter is the author Leslie Jamison, and his son, Julian Jamison, is an economist.

When China joined the World Bank in 1978 Dean Jamison was assigned to analyse China's progress in health and nutrition.

Dean Jamison then spent time heading up the bank's health work in China.

Dean Jamison has held positions at Harvard, Harvard School of Public Health, Peking University and the University of Queensland.

Dean Jamison has worked at the National Institute of Health, and the World Health Organization.

Dean Jamison has been involved in a wide range of professional activities and served as Co-Chair and Study Director of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health which published their results in 2013.

Dean Jamison currently is co-leader of the Disease Control Priorities Project, and was lead author of the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, the first edition of which was published in 1993, the second edition, titled Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, in 2006.