Jeff Sturchio

Jeffrey L. Sturchio is chairman of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, TB, and Malaria and chairman of the International Society for Urban Health.  He is also the former chairman 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 was vice president of external affairs, Europe, Middle East Africa, Latin America, and Canada, and later vice president of Corporate Responsibility, at Merck & Co. Inc., and president of The Merck Company Foundation. While at Merck & Co., Inc., 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. He also served as a member of the board of the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) in Botswana (2005-2009 and since 2015) and a member of the private sector delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (2002-2008).

He is also chairman of the BroadReach Institute for Training and Education and a member of the boards of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, the Health Finance Institute, and the Science History Institute. Dr. Sturchio 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; Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a principal of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Arthur W. Page Society; and an advisor to amfAR, the Malaria Elimination Initiative, the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations, the Rutgers Global Health Institute, and the TB Alliance. He received an AB in history from Princeton University and a PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Equity, Innovation and the New Health Economy (edited with L. Galambos and I. Kickbusch, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health and Pharmaceuticals: Case Studies (edited with S. Hakim and J. P. Fuhr, Springer Nature, forthcoming 2026).