Rachel Nugent

Deputy Director, Global Health Program
rnugent@cgdev.org

Expertise

Global health policy, health and economic development, population and poverty, cost-effectiveness, intellectual property effects on poor countries, non-communicable diseases.

Initiatives

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, George Washington University; BA in Economics and Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Background

Rachel is a Deputy Director in CGD’s Global Health Programs. She heads the new CGD working group on drug resistance, provides economic and policy expertise to support the other GHPRN Working Groups, manages CGD programs on Population and Economic Development, and conducts research on other global health topics.  She has 25 years of experience as a development economist, managing and carrying out research and policy analysis in the fields of health, agriculture and the environment. Prior to joining CGD, Rachel worked at the Population Reference Bureau, the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. She also served as associate professor and chair of the economics department at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Rachel’s publications include a range of topics, from the cost-effectiveness of non-communicable disease interventions and health impacts of fiscal policies to impacts of microcredit on the environment in developing countries and economic impacts of transboundary diseases and pests.