 Our Board in 2009 Back row (L - R): William Y. Yun, Thomas S. Inui, Wendy H. O'Neill, Tony Saich, Tom J. Kessinger,
Jeffrey P. Koplan, Peter J. Robbins (former); Front row (L-R):
Lincoln C. Chen, Jane Henney, Harvey V. Fineberg, Mary B. Bullock, Michael A. Duffy (former)
Find below more information about our board members:
 Mary Brown Bullock, just completing her presidency of Agnes Scott
College, is a China historian now serving as Visiting Distinguished Professor of China Studies at Emory University.
In addition to chairing the board of trustees of the China Medical Board,
she serves on the boards of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the National Science Foundation's
Advisory Council on US-China Cooperation in Science, Policy, Research, and Education and the Asia Foundation.
From 1988-1995, Dr. Bullock presided as director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center and from
1977-1988, she was director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.
Dr. Bullock authored An American Transplant: The Rockefeller Foundation and Peking Union Medical College,
which examines the history of the founding of the China Medical Board.
Lincoln Chen is President of the China Medical Board of New York.
His biography is in the staff page.
 Harvey V. Fineberg is President of the Institute of Medicine. He served as Provost of Harvard University from
1997 to 2001, following thirteen years as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He has devoted most of his
academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision making. His past research has focused on the
process of policy development and implementation, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of vaccines,
and dissemination of medical innovations. Dr. Fineberg helped found and served as president of the Society for
Medical Decision Making and also served as consultant to the World Health Organization. At the Institute of Medicine,
he has chaired and served on a number of panels dealing with health policy issues, ranging from AIDS to new medical
technology. He also served as a member of the Public Health Council of Massachusetts (1976-1979), as chairman of the
Health Care Technology Study Section of the National Center for Health Services Research (1982-1985), and as president
of the Association of Schools of Public Health (1995-1996). Dr. Fineberg earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees
from Harvard University.
Jane Henney is Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs at the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center.
She oversees the operations of the academic and research enterprise including the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy,
and Allied Health Sciences, Hoxworth Blood Center, Academic Information Technologies and Libraries, and Institute for Study
of Health. In 1998 she was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Commissioner of Food and
Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She was appointed Senior Scholar in Residence at the Association of
Academic Health Centers. Dr. Henney serves on a number of Boards of Directors in the health care field, including The
Commonwealth Fund, The China Medical Board, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, AstraZeneca PLC, and Cigna Corporation.
Honorary degrees were received from North Carolina State University, the University of Rochester, and Manchester College.
She is a recipient of the Excellence in Women's Health Award from The Jacobs Institute, the Public Health Leadership
Award, the DHS Secretary's Recognition Award, and the PHS Commendation Medal.
 Thomas S. Inui is President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, the Sam Regenstrief Professor of
Health Services Research, and Associate Dean for Health Care Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. A primary
care physician, educator, and researcher, he previously held positions as head of general internal medicine at the
University of Washington School of Medicine and as the Paul C. Cabot professor and founding chair of the Department
of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Inui's special emphases in teaching and research
have included physician/patient communication, health promotion and disease prevention, the social context of medicine,
and medical humanities. His honors include elected membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Johns Hopkins
University Society of Scholars, the Institute of Medicine, a USPHS Medal of Commendation, serving as a member of the
Council and President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, receipt of SGIM's Robert Glaser Award (for generalism),
and election to the Institute of Medicine (and subsequently the IOM Council).
Tom G. Kessinger is General Manager of the Aga Khan Foundation, responsible for overseeing the Foundation's work
world-wide. In addition, he is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). During 1988-1996
he served as the eleventh President of Haverford College. In 1977-1988, he worked with the Ford Foundation serving as
regional representative in Jakarta and New Delhi. In 1961, he volunteered for Peace Corps work in rural India. In 1965
he entered the PhD program in history and anthropology at the University of Chicago focused on South Asia. His doctoral
research, conducted in India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom, was the reconstruction of the social and economic history
of an Indian village employing the research methods of history, anthropology, and cultural studies.
 Jeffrey P. Koplan is Vice President for Global Health and Director of the Global Health Institute at Emory University. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Koplan served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During his directorship, CDC maintained its world leadership role in disease prevention and health promotion, expanded its capacities, renovated its facilities, and developed state-of-the-art public health services for the 21st Century. From 1994 to 1998, he led the Prudential Center for Health Care Research, a nationally recognized health services research organization. Dr. Koplan began his public health career as one of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officers, and since then, has worked on virtually every major public health issue.
Dr. Koplan serves on many boards and committees, including co-founder and president of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI). He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, where he serves on the Governing Council. He is a trustee of Yale University, The Marcus Family Foundation, HealthMPowers and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. Dr. Koplan is a graduate of Yale College, the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
 Wendy Harrison O’Neill, a resident of Hong Kong, serves as a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a member of the Hong Kong Friends’ Committee of the Asian Cultural Council. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the American Women's Association of which she is also Chairman of its Charitable Donation Committee and the Kong Hong International School's Institutional Advancement Committee. Ms O'Neill received an A.B. from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in East Asian Studies and an M.A. from University of California in Los Angeles in History with a specialty in Chinese history. She was the first foreign intern at China International Trust and Investment Company among her numerous activities in trade and investments in China.
 Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Faculty Chair of the Asia Programs and the China Public
Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the
Fairbank Center and the University's Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China
Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this he was the director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the
Netherlands. He first visited China as a student in 1976-77 and has been there for longer or shorter trips almost each
year since. Currently, he is also a guest professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University,
China. He is a Trustee of International Bridges to Justice. He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught
at universities in England, Holland, and the U.S.
 William Y. Yun has been Executive Vice President of Alternative Strategies at Franklin Resources, Inc. since 2008, and is responsible for Franklin Templeton's specialized and alternative investment groups. Mr. Yun is an officer of Franklin Resources, Inc. and a member of Franklin Templeton's Investment, Planning and Global Product Development Committees. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Fiduciary Trust Company International and is a member of Fiduciary Trust's Management Committee. He joined Fiduciary Trust in 1992 and was a portfolio manager for eight years, becoming executive vice president overseeing Fiduciary Trust's global equity division. He served as president of Fiduciary Trust from 2000 to 2005. In 2002, he also became president of Franklin Templeton Institutional, the global business development group responsible for Franklin Templeton's institutional business. Prior to joining Fiduciary Trust, Mr. Yun worked at Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, First Boston and CB Commercial Holdings. Mr. Yun is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He earned an M.B.A. from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, and a B.A. from Harvard University. Mr. Yun is also a trustee of the South Street Seaport Museum and The Commonwealth Fund in New York.
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