Dr Rachel Nugent 

 

Rachel Nugent, PhD, has more than 30 years of experience in global development as a researcher, practitioner, and policy advisor to  governments. She is Vice President and Director of the Center for  Global NCDs at RTI International where she leads a team charged with providing policy analysis, implementation, and evaluation of cost effective strategies to prevent and control global noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). RTI’s global NCD experts generate and translate new evidence to help guide global and national decision-making aimed at   noncommunicable disease detection, prevention, and control.

Dr.  Nugent manages the Center’s capabilities including health economics and evaluation; communication  and behavior change; epidemiology and survey research; establishment of disease and risk factor  registries; and development of guidelines, care pathways, and medical technology applications for  global NCDs. 

Dr. Nugent led the Lancet Task Force on NCDs and Economics, and is a member of the Lancet  Commission on Women and Cancer, the Food System Economics Commission, co-chairs the Steering  Group of the Coalition for Access to NCD Medicines and Supplies, and serves in numerous advisory  positions.

She formerly served as a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine Committee on Economic  Evaluation, the International Expert Group for the Global Nutrition Report, the External Advisory  Committee of the NCD Alliance and Children’s Heartlink. Previously, Dr. Nugent was an associate  professor of global health at the University of Washington and director and principal investigator of  the Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP-3.org). She is affiliate associate professor at the University  of Washington Department of Global Health. She previously worked at the Center for Global  Development, the Population Reference Bureau, the Fogarty International Center of NIH, and the Food  and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.