Dr. Jeff Blander has over 15 years of experience in deploying services and commercializing medical technologies in developed and developing countries. His current research interests include health systems strengthening, adoption of low cost diagnostics, and integration of infectious and non communicable disease health services.

Jeff has also taught for ten years at the Health Science and Technology (HST) Division of Harvard University and MIT for a course he co-developed on health care, technology, and business practice. In the Spring of 2008, Jeff launched his second course entitled, HST 939 Designing Technology Innovation for Global Health Practice. The course works closely with sponsors and partners in developing countries to enable teams of students to work on design projects that address "real world" field-based problems.  The first year enrollment was over 50 students from across MIT and Harvard, with 14 projects on going in 6 developing country settings. In 2008 Dr. Blander was appointed co-leader of the Technology Innovation Working Group for the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH). In this position Dr. Blander has the unique role in helping to create partnerships and linkages to strengthen educational and research opportunities for Harvard graduate and undergraduate students as well as junior faculty.

Jeff is also co-founder of the Bienmoyo Foundation (www.bienmoyo.org), a Massachusetts, US IRS registered 501 (c)3 tax exempt organization. The Bienmoyo Foundation provides advisory services on implementing technologies and services to improve management of non-communicable diseases in developing countries. Under Jeff’s leadership, Bienmoyo has developed a pipeline of 14 grassroots projects in resource poor settings and has supported over two dozen graduate and undergraduate student field projects.

Previously, Jeff served as a Volunteer Country Director for the Clinton Foundation in Jamaica in 2004 and was awarded NIH/Fogarty pre and post doctoral fellowships in global health and clinical research in Tanzania in 2005 and 2008. Jeff has his doctorate and two master’s degrees from Harvard and his bachelors of science from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

EDUCATION

Sc.D - Harvard School of Public Health - Department of Society, Human Development and Health (2008)

MS - Harvard School of Public Health - Department of Health and Social Behavior (2004)

MS - Harvard School of Public Health - Department of Health Policy and Management (2000)

BS (Economics) - Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1993)