Health Systems and Population Health

Bio

Jeff Lane, JD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor with the University of Washington Department of Global Health and is a core faculty member with University of Washington’s (UW) International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH). Jeff is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Capacity Building for Sustainable HIV Services Program, which implements HIV programs in Botswana, Caribbean, India, Kenya, Mozambique, and Ukraine.From 2010-2015, Jeff worked on the PEPFAR Policy Monitoring Project that built capacity of PEPFAR partner countries to develop and monitor health law and policy reforms critical to HIV/AIDS program scale-up and sustainability. Jeff co-led the South Africa health policy systems strengthening project, which worked with the National Department of Health of South Africa to strengthen its health policy management processes and information systems.

During his career, Jeff has worked to strengthen health policy and regulatory environments in Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia. Jeff’s research interests focus on how policy development and implementation impacts public health around the world and specifically on access to essential medicines and health services. Jeff teaches a graduate level course every spring titled Policy Development and Advocacy for Global Health (GH523). Jeff received his Juris Doctorate and Masters of Public Health from UW.

Education

MPH Health Policy, University of Washington, 2009
JD University of Washington, 2009
BA Boston College, 2005