Dean Jamison

Dean T. Jamison is the Edward A. Clarkson Professor, Emeritus, in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and in the Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Dean has previously been on the faculties of Harvard, UCLA, and the University of Washington. He served at the World Bank as a research economist and as manager of its Education Policy and Health, Nutrition and Population Divisions. Dean was lead author for the Bank’s 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health.

Dean studied at Stanford (M.S., Engineering Science) and at Harvard (Ph.D., Economics, under K.J. Arrow). In 1994 he was elected to membership in the Academy of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Dean served as co-chair with Lawrence H. Summers of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (The Lancet, December 2013). More recently, he led work on the 9-volume Disease Control Priorities series from the World Bank and was lead author of its synthesizing publication (The Lancet, December 2017).