William McGreevey

William Paul McGreevey (born April 13, 1938) is an associate professor in the Department of International Health at Georgetown University, where he teaches on the political economy of health and development. As a consulting economist, he provides services on international development and health issues to UNAIDS and its ten co-sponsors, the World Bank, Futures Group and Futures Institute, RUSH Foundation and Copenhagen Consensus, and Results for Development Institute. He is a graduate cum laude with a BA in economics from Ohio State University, 1960, and a PhD in economics from MIT, 1965. His PhD dissertation was later revised and published by Cambridge University Press in 1971, by William Paul McGreevey. It was reissued in 2007 as a paperback by CUP. A new Spanish edition is planned for publication by Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
He has focused in recent years on strengthening health systems in developing countries; a chapter, "Strengthening health systems", appears in Bjorn Lomborg, ed., Rethink HIV (see publications). In 2010 he prepared reports for DfID and the Global Fund on resource requirements for HIV and AIDS in People’s Republic of China; for Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme on benefits and costs of covering reproductive health services; UNAIDS and Futures Institute for resource requirements in the Latin America and Asia regions; and, aids2031 for a comprehensive report on future resource needs through the year 2031. At the World Bank, 1980-97, he worked on poverty and living standards, urban, health, nutrition, and population projects, and managed training for Bank staff in these areas. He now serves as sector chair for the HNP sector of the 1818 Society for World Bank retirees. He was chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and taught economic history at UCBerkeley in the 1960s. He came to Wash DC in 1971 where he has worked at the OAS, Smithsonian Institution, Battelle Memorial Institute, World Bank, Futures Group, and Georgetown University.

• With Carlos Avila and Mary Punchak, “Strengthening health systems,” in Bjorn Lomborg, ed., Rethink HIV: Smarter ways to invest in ending HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 183–212.
• With Brian Briscombe. 2010. Costs and Benefits Study of the NHIS/MDG Maternal and Child Health Project. Health Policy Initiative, Futures Group, Washington DC.
• With Wang Weibing and others. 2009. Type 2 diabetes mellitus in China: a preventable economic burden. The American journal of managed care 15, 9, 593-601.
• With Robert Hecht and others 2009. Critical choices in financing the response to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Health affairs 28, 6, 1591-1605.
• With J Hammer, L MacKellar, and A Acharya. 2008. Propinquity Matters: How better health, urbanization, and total factor productivity grew together, 1870-2008; Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy XVI, 3, 605-33.
• With Carlos Avila, Jose-Antonio Izazola, and Natalie Menser. 2009. HIV and AIDS programs – how they support health system strengthening. Results for Development Working Paper.
• Ed., Third world poverty, new strategies for measuring development progress; Lexington Books, D.C. Heath, Lexington MA, 1980.
• An economic history of Colombia, 1845-1930; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1971, reprinted 2008; Spanish ed., trans., Haroldo Calvo, Ediciones Tercer Mundo, Bogotá, 1971; reprinted 1975, 1978, 1982, 2005.