Donald Bundy

Donald Bundy is Professor of Epidemiology and Development at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has worked for more than 30 years on the role of school health and nutrition programmes in the development of school-age children and adolescents, especially in low-income countries.

He is the Director of the Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition, and advisor to the World Food Programme in Rome, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation in London, the World Bank in Washington DC, and several national governments. Before joining LSHTM in 2018 he was Senior Advisor to the Global Health Team of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle and London.

Previously, he served for 15 years (1999-2014) at the World Bank in Washington DC. As Lead Health Specialist focused on the interface between the health and education sectors, he coordinated the Bank’s programme for NTDs and the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control. These policy roles built on his earlier academic career (1979-1999) at the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and the University of the West Indies.