Authors

Marv Shepherd is a professor at the College of Pharmacy, director of the Center for Pharmacoeconomic Studies, University of Texas and president of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, an industry-supported organization dedicated to fighting drug counterfeiting.

Donika Dimovska is a program officer at the Results for Development Institute (R4D) in Washington, DC, and works on the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), www.healthmarketinnovations.org.

Joel Selanikio, a practicing pediatrician and former Wall Street computer consultant, currently leads DataDyne.org’s efforts to develop new technologies for health and international development.

Thomas John Bossert, PhD, is director of the International Health Systems Program in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Philip Musgrove is a health economist and deputy editor of Health Affairs, a health policy journal. He served 8 years at the Pan American Health Organization and 12 years at the World Bank.

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD is dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006.

Morris Panner, CEO of TownFlier, is a Senior Advisor at Harvard University Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a member of the board of directors of the Washington Office on Latin America.  Previously, he was a Federal Prosecutor in Manhattan and Resident Legal Advisor in the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia.

Keith Dannemiller is a photographer based in Mexico City.

Marco Enríquez-Ominami was the independent candidate and third runner-up in the first round of the 2009 Chilean presidential elections.

Anne Hawkins is a fishery analyst at the New England Fishery Management Council.

Michael J. McGuinness and Manuel A. Orillac are partners in the Mergers & Acquisitions team at Shearman & Sterling LLP and are located in New York and Abu Dhabi, respectively. Kristopher Ferranti, Kagayaki Funakoshi and Cynthia Phillips contributed research to this article.

Alex Vatanka is a scholar at Middle East Institute and editor of Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst.

Marcel Biato is an assistant to the chief foreign policy advisor of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.