Elias Zerhouni
Senior Fellow, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; former Director, National Institutes of Health
Elias Zerhouni, a Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was the Director of the National Institutes of Health from May 2002 to last October. He spearheaded a series of reforms at the NIH that led Congress to pass the NIH Reform Act of 2006. He is also a professor of radiology and bioengineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as executive vice dean of the School of Medicine and chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science before joining the NIH. Zerhouni's imaging research has led to major advances in computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The author of 212 publications and the holder of eight patents, he has co-founded several companies. Zerhouni was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2000.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
