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Advisory Colleagues
Linda H. Aiken is an authority on causes, consequences, and solutions for nurse
shortages in the United States and around the world. She directs the Center for Health Outcomes and
Policy Research, and is The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology,
and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. She co-directs the National Council on Physician and Nurse Supply which aims to develop
viable strategies to address national and global shortages of health professionals. Dr. Aiken is winner of
the 2006 Baxter International Foundation's William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, the 2006
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award from Research!America for Sustained National Leadership in Health
Research, and the 2005AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award in Health Services Research.
She won the 2003 Individual Earnest A. Codman Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for her leadership utilizing performance measures to demonstrate
relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. Dr. Aiken leads the International Hospital
Outcomes Consortium studying the impact of nursing shortages on patient outcomes in 16 countries,
including Japan, Thailand, and South Korea. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel guiding the
World Alliance for Patient Safety. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and
Social Science, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and she is a former president of the American
Academy of Nursing, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom.
Keiko DeLille, Financial Management Advisor
 Over the past decade, Keiko DeLille has worked as an independent consultant in the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa with not-for-profit organizations, including international NGOs, membership organizations, and small, medium and large-sized foundations, in the areas of strategic review, organizational development, financial management and investment strategy. Ms DeLille brings to her consulting practice experience drawn from being an international banker, entrepreneur, Ford Foundation Program Investment Officer and vice-chair-person of a New York CDFI bank.
Rebecca Firestone, Lancet South East Asia Series
 Rebecca Firestone is a social epidemiologist and consultant with extensive field experience in Southeast Asia. Having completed a post-doctoral fellowship with China Medical Board to develop the foundation's Southeast Asia programs, Dr. Firestone now serves as academic coordinator for the CMB and Rockefeller-supported Lancet Series on Health in Southeast Asia. Prior her work with CMB, Dr. Firestone was a research fellow with the Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University while she completed her doctoral dissertation research on the double burden of child malnutrition in Thailand. Her research focuses on interventions to address social inequalities in health, with particular concentration on nutrition, chronic diseases, and reproductive health. She has consulted with a range of international agencies including the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, UNESCO, PATH, and the Ford Foundation. Dr. Firestone was awarded an Sc.D from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MPH from the University of Washington.
 Peter Geithner is an advisor to the Asia Center, the Global Equity Initiative and the Ash Institute at
Harvard University, and serves as a consultant to the China Medical Board, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller
Foundation, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and other nonprofit organizations. He serves on the boards of the
Harvard - Yenching Institute (Chair), National Committee on United States - China Relations, China Center
for Economic Research (Peking University), Center for the Advanced Study of India (University of Pennsylvania),
Japan Center for International Exchange/ USA, and Institute of Current World Affairs.
Prior to assuming his current positions, Mr. Geithner spent 28 years with the Ford Foundation where he held
program management positions mainly concerned with Asia, including as Director of Asia Programs in New York
from 1990 to 1996, and as the Foundation's first representative in China in Beijing, 1988 to 1990.
Mr. Geithner is a graduate of Dartmouth College (BA) and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies (MA). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council of Foreign Relations. He has
received the State Department Distinguished Service Award and the Royal Thai Government Order of the White
Elephant.
Jean Hogan, Financial Management Advisor
 Jean Hogan is a senior management advisor. She served as Vice President for Administration and Assistant Treasurer to the China Medical Board for 38 years, working with five different presidents before retiring in January 2009. Upon joining the China Medical Board in 1968, she was initially employed as a bookkeeper with her primary responsibility as a check writer for the Board's extensive program in fellowships. In 1974 she was appointed Assistant Treasurer and her responsibilities included the maintenance of the financial records. In addition she worked closely with the grants manager in maintaining the grant database. In 1986 the additional title of Vice President of Administration was awarded in recognition of her administrative office duties. Based in New York city, Jean now provides senior advisory services on an ad hoc basis, especially in finance and management.
John Koprowski, Financial Management Advisor
 John J. Koprowski formed his consulting firm, John J. Koprowski & Associates, in 1993. Since then the firm has worked providing financial management services to over 100 non-profit organizations in the areas of civil and human rights, advocacy, arts and culture, community development and capacity building in the U.S. and internationally. Prior to beginning his consulting activities, John worked for the Ford Foundation for 11 years as the Treasurer and Director of Financial Services and prior to joining Ford, spent 12 years with the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation as Vice President for Accounting and Information Systems. Before entering the non-profit sector, John received his CPA license from New York Stat and received his B.S. in Business Administration from St. Peter’s College and his M.B.A. in Economics from New York University.
 Dr. Phillips is a Canadian citizen who has been a permanent resident of China for more than 20 years.
He received a BSc (psychology) from McGill University, an MD from McMaster University and an MA (anthropology)
and MPH (epidemiology) from the University of Washington. He completed his psychiatry residency training at
the University of Washington followed by a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Research Training Fellowship. He is
currently the Executive Director of the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center and Director of the
WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital,
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University (USA), Visiting Professor
at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Vice-Chairperson of the Chinese Society for Injury Prevention and
Control, Chairperson of the Expert Committee on Research Methods of the Chinese Society of Psychiatry,
Chairperson of the Expert Committee on Crisis Intervention of the Beijing Mental Health Association, advisor
on mental health issues in China for the WHO, and the China Representative of the International Association
for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Phillips is currently PI on a number of multi - center collaborative projects
on suicide, depression and schizophrenia. With the assistance of the 60 full-time staff at his Center, Dr.
Phillips runs a number of research training courses each year, supervises Chinese and foreign graduate
students, helps coordinate WHO mental health activities in China, promotes increased awareness of the
importance of addressing China's huge suicide problem and advocates improving the quality, comprehensiveness
and access to mental health services around the country.
Yu Hai, CMB-China Medical Tobacco Initiative
 Yu Hai is a Professor and Director of International Education Programs in Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He graduated from Shanghai First Medical College in 1968 and worked as a general physician in a rural commune clinic of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region for 10 years. He received his PhD in Cancer Research at Leeds University in England in 1983. After returning to China, Dr. Yu began working in the Cancer Institute of Zhejiang Medical University as the Deputy Director. He served as the medical consultant for World Bank Health Projects II and III during 1986-1990. He was the Vice-President of Zhejiang Medical University (1996-1998) and Associate Dean of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (1999-2002) and was a member of the 9th National Committee of Chinese Political Consultation Conference (CPPCC). He is the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Society of Family Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Society of Clinical Epidemiology. Dr Yu currently serves as the senior consultant for CMB-China Medical Tobacco Initiative and is based in Hangzhou.
Shufang Zhang, Tobacco Policy
 Shufang Zhang is a doctoral candidate in Health Economics at the Global Health and Population Department of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and a Presidential Scholar of Harvard University. Prior to coming to HSPH, Shufang worked at the World Bank, managing training portfolios for senior Chinese government officials on poverty reduction and sustainable development. She also worked in the World Bank Beijing Office on capacity building for policy makers in economic reforms, fiscal decentralization, education and corporate governance. Shufang obtained her Master's degree in Environmental Economics and Policy from Duke University and is a Leadership for Environment and Development Fellow. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Economists Society and the Corporate Environmental Advisory Council of Dow Chemical Company. At Harvard, Shufang has been engaged in multiple research projects on China’s health system, including the study and management of Rural Mutual Health Care, a pilot rural health insurance scheme in western rural China initiated by Professor William Hsiao. Shufang's research interests include health care financing, health intervention monitoring and evaluation, health and labor productivity, and smoking behavior. Her doctoral thesis aims to study smoking behavior as a response to cigarette cost change among Chinese and older American adults using micro level longitudinal data. She is currently engaged in the planning and launch of the CMB China Medical Tobacco Initiative.
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