Jeffrey L. Sturchio is the Chairman of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, TB, and Malaria. He is the former President and CEO of Rabin Martin, a global health strategy consulting firm, and former President and CEO of the Global Health Council.
Before joining the Council in 2009, Dr. Sturchio spent nearly twenty years at Merck & Co., Inc., where he served in a series of increasingly responsible positions, including Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and President of The Merck Company Foundation. While at Merck, for more than a decade he was a leader of the company’s global HIV/AIDS policy and was centrally involved in the UN/Industry Accelerating Access Initiative established in 2000 to help improve HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world.
Dr. Sturchio also serves currently as Chairman of the International Society for Urban Health, the Advisory Council of the Center for Health and Well-Being at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and the BroadReach Institute for Training and Education. He is also a member of the Boards of ACHAP, the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Corporate Council on Africa (where he was chairman from 2008-2009 and 2016-2023), the Health Finance Institute, and the Science History Institute. He is also currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University; a senior associate of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and an advisor to several global health organizations, including amfAR, the Malaria Elimination Initiative, the Rutgers Global Health Institute, and the TB Alliance.
Dr. Sturchio received an A.B. in history (1973) from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in the history & sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania (1981). In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2010 and of the Arthur W. Page Society in 2014. In 2014 he received the Powered by EF Leadership Award from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in recognition of his work in corporate responsibility.
His publications include Noncommunicable Diseases in the Developing World: Addressing Global Gaps in Policy and Research (edited with L. Galambos, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013); and The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Innovation, Equity and the New Health Economy (edited with I. Kickbusch & L. Galambos, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).
