Background
Nils Daulaire is the son of Ingri and Edgar Parin d"Aulaire, multiple award-winning writers and illustrators of children"s books
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Nils Daulaire is the son of Ingri and Edgar Parin d"Aulaire, multiple award-winning writers and illustrators of children"s books
Daulaire received a bachelor’s degree in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard College in 1970 where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Betta Kappa.
Daulaire has been at Department of Health and Human Services since 2010, and became Assistant Secretary in December 2012. He also served as the United States. Representative on the World Health Organization’s (World Health Organization) Executive Board, a post he was nominated to by President Barack Obama. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1976 with residency in training at the University of Colorado.
He earned a Masters of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1978.
Nils Daulaire began his career working for 20 years in primary health programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America where he carried out field research on child survival. He also served in Mali as a technical advisor on primary health.
He has worked extensively in Haiti, Bangladesh, and other low-income countries. Daulaire has directed multiple pioneering child health research projects, especially in the areas of community based management of childhood pneumonia and Vitamin A supplementation.
From 1993 to 1998, Daulaire served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy and Senior International Health Advisor for the United States. Agency for International Development (United States Agency for International Development).
At United States Agency for International Development, he oversaw an integrated global strategy that encompassed programs totaling more than $1 billion annually. He was responsible for health, population, girls’ education, and other social sector programs. From 1998 until his appointment at Department of Health and Human Services in 2010, Doctor Daulaire was the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Health Council, an international nonprofit membership organization that represents global health service providers and policy advocates.
While there, he promoted public health causes in developing countries.
Daulaire has testified before the United States Congress on numerous occasions, represented the United States at five World Health Organization annual assemblies and has been the lead United States. negotiator at a number of international meetings on health including:
The Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (1994)
The Beijing World Conference of Women (1995)
The Rome World Food Summit (1996)
Daulaire has provided technical assistance to more than 20 countries encompassing all regions of the world, and he speaks seven languages. Academia and accreditation
Daulaire is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
He has been Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Senior Visiting Scholar on Global Health Security at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and is currently a visiting instructor at the Harvard Territory of Hawaii Chan School of Public Health. Daulaire has been elected to membership in both the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Daulaire is married to Mary Taylor.
They have two children.