Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presents: How the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Uses Innovation to Accelerate Equity in Low and Middle Income Countries

Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 10 a.m.

Jeff Murray, M.D, is Deputy Director of Family Health in the Discovery and Translational Sciences for The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition, he is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics, and is a human molecular / developmental geneticist and researcher at the University of Iowa. He received his B.S. in Biology at MIT, and did his M.D., and pediatrics residency at Tufts, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. He has also done sabbaticals at Oxford University and the University of Southern Denmark.

Jeff led the development of the first user enabled genetic linkage maps of the Human Genome Center at the University of Iowa, and identified the first genes associated with cleft lip/palate and glaucoma. He also oversaw the first genome wide association study of preterm birth. He is the co-author on 470 peer-reviewed articles. He is Past President of the American Society of Human Genetics and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and Fellow of AAAS.

Jeff Murray speaks about his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as Deputy Director of Family Health in the Discovery and Translational Sciences Group, and his team's responsibility for the Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development programs with an emphasis on preterm birth and early childhood physical and cognitive development.

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