College of Health and Human Services Advisory Board

Richard Skolnik, Lecturer in Global Health at The George Washington University and Independant Consultant

Richard Skolnik is an Adjunct Associate Professor at The George Washington University, where he teaches undergraduate courses in global health and advises on graduate student MPH projects.  Richard also works as an independent consultant engaged in program design and evaluation activities in a number of areas of global health, including HIV, TB, and nutrition.  Richard is currently leading an evaluation of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and the preparation of country case studies on the long run costs and financing of HIV, as part of the aids2031 program.  He also edits New & Noteworthy in Nutrition. Until November 2008, Richard was the Vice President for International Programs at the Population Reference Bureau.  Earlier, he served as the Executive Director of the Harvard School of Public Health PEPFAR program for AIDS treatment in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania.  From 2001 to 2004, Richard was The Director of the Center for Global Health at The George Washington University, where he taught an undergraduate global health course and supervised final projects of Master of Public Health students in the global health field.  Richard worked at the World Bank from 1976 to 2001, last serving as the Director for Health and Education for South Asia. His work at the World Bank focused on health systems development, family planning and reproductive health, child health, the control of communicable diseases, and nutrition in low-income countries.  Richard was involved in establishing STOP TB, served three rounds on the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund, served on several WHO working groups on TB, and led an independent evaluation of the Global Alliance for the Elimination of Leprosy.  Richard is the author of an undergraduate textbook, Essentials of Global Health. He received a BA from Yale University and an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.

Richard is on the Board of Ashraya, a small foundation that supports the health and education of poor girls in two states in India, and earlier served on the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation.