Woodrow Wilson Award 2011

2011 Recipients

Nils M.P. Daulaire, SPH ’78
Dr. Nils Daulaire is the Department of Health and Human Services director of the Office of Global Health Affairs. Previously, he served as president and CEO of the Global Health Council working with international leaders, governments and United Nations organizations to improve public health in the world’s poorest communities. Under his leadership, the Global Health Council became one of the world’s most respected organizations dedicated to bringing better health to all. He has represented the United States at five World Health Organization annual assemblies and spent 15 years in the field in low-income countries managing maternal and child health delivery programs. Top

Andrew P. Harris, A&S ’77, Med ’80, SPH ’95
Dr. Harris earned his B.A. in biology from The Johns Hopkins University in 1977, his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1980, and his M.H.S. in Health Policy & Management and Health Finance & Management from the University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1995. Additionally, he completed an internship, residency, and fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Harris is currently associate professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Gynecology & Obstetrics. During Operation Desert Storm, Dr. Harris served in the Navy Medical Corps and the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander; he currently serves as a commander. He also served as commanding officer for the Johns Hopkins Naval Reserve Medical Unit from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Harris is a diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology. He was president of both the Maryland Society of Anesthesiologists and the Maryland-District of Columbia Society of Anesthesiologists in addition to being a member of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology’s Board of Directors. Currently, Dr. Harris is a politician who served in the Senate of the Maryland General Assembly for 12 years before winning the seat of Congressman in 2010, representing Maryland's 1st congressional district. Top

Marilyn Jean Keefe, SPH ’93
Ms. Keefe has served the public as a public health policymaker. She was recently appointed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as deputy assistant secretary for population affairs where she manages operations and activities of the Office of Population Affairs (OPA). OPA advises the secretary and the assistant secretary for health on a wide range of reproductive health topics. At OPA, Ms. Keefe is responsible for three main programs: family planning, adolescent pregnancy, and research and evaluation. She is responsible for implementing policy that affects the education, counseling and medical services available for family planning programs; policy that aims to ameliorate the adverse consequences of adolescent childbearing; and for supporting search and evaluation efforts in the areas of reproductive health and adolescent sexual behavior, pregnancy, and childbearing. Among colleagues in reproductive health services, Ms. Keefe is known for her experience, dedication and life-long commitment to expanding and improving access to comprehensive reproductive health services, especially to low-income women. Top

Diane E. Rowland, SPH '87 (ScD)
In 2009, Dr. Rowland was appointed chair of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), a nonpartisan congressional advisory body that provides health policy advice and technical assistance to congress. She is also executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Dr. Rowland's federal health policy experience includes service as a senior staff associate of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the House of Representatives. She has held senior health policy positions in the Department of Health and Human Services as well. Dr Rowland is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a founding member of the National Academy for Social Insurance, past president and fellow of the Association for Health Services Research (now Academy Health), the Secretary’s Task Force on Infant Mortality, and the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Health Insurance for Working Americans. She is also a board member for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and has served on the Commonwealth Fund Commission on the Future of Health Insurance. Top