Jonathon L Simon

Jonathon Lee Simon, M.P.H., D.Sc., is the Director of the Center for Global Health and Development, and Professor of International Health at the BUSPH. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley in Conservation and Resource Studies. His MPH is from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Simon received his Doctorate of Science from the Harvard University School of Public Health, having completed dissertation research on the changing family demography in urban slum communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been involved in applied child health research activities for more than 20 years, working in more than twenty developing countries. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Simon was a Fellow of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) at Harvard University. Dr. Simon has extensive experience working in Africa and South Asia, particularly on issues related to child survival, infectious diseases, and capacity strengthening. He has served in resident positions in Tanzania and Pakistan. He recently served as global team leader of an evaluation of The President's Malaria Initiative (PMI). He currently is involved in conducting evaluation research studies of interventions aimed at improving the well-being of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC).