MDE Team

Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH (“Jono”) is an internationally recognized global health leader and author of The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It (2020 Australian, Italian, Korean, South Asia, U.K. and U.S. editions). His current research focuses on market-driven epidemics, from tobacco to opioids, ultra-processed foods, firearms, commercial milk formula and social media. He is an adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute (Durham, NC) and Affiliated Faculty in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA). He has held senior leadership positions at the World Health Organization, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Management Sciences for Health, during which he carried out assignments in more than 70 countries. His publications also include Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (MDS-3), the Financial Times Guide to Executive Health, and more than 100 other books, chapters, and articles in leading medical journals. Dr. Quick has appeared on North American, European, and Asia media, including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, and Bloomberg. He was a resident and chief resident in the Duke Family Medicine program, graduated sum cum laude from Harvard College, and received his MD with distinction in research and MPH from the University of Rochester.