Rachel Nugent
Vice President, Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases Global Initiative, RTI International
Dr Rachel Nugent is a recognized leader on chronic, non-communicable disease policy and economics, with three decades of combined experience in international development and global health polic. She is a research scientist in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington since 2011. She was formerly Deputy Director of Global Health at the Center for Global Development where she led the Demographics and Development in the 21st Century Initiative, managed the Drug Resistance & Global Health Initiative, and conducted research on non-communicable diseases in developing countries. Previously, Dr Nugent was Director of Health and Economics at the Population Reference Bureau, Program Director of Health and Economics Programs at the Fogarty International Center of NIH, and senior economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She has advised the World Health Organization, the U.S. Government, and non-profit organizations on the economics and policy environment of NCDs. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic in Developing Countries (2009-2010) andthe World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Chronic Diseases and Well-Being, chair of the IOM Workshop on Developing a Toolkit for Managing NCDs in Developing Countries (2011) and a contributor to the Disease Control Priorities Project in Developing Countries, published in 2006. Rachel worked on the economic evaluation of health interventions and fiscal policies to address non-communicable diseases, including financing for NCDs. Dr Nugent, joined RTI International as vice president of its new Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases Global Initiative in February 2016.