Professor Rifat Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems and Director of Global Health Systems Cluster at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 2006–2013, he was Professor of International Health Management and Head of the Health Management Group at Imperial College London. In 2008–2012 he served as a member of the Executive Management Team of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria as the Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster.

Professor Atun’s research focuses on the design and implementation of health systems reforms and their impact on outcomes. His research also explores the adoption and diffusion of innovations in health systems (e.g. health technologies, disease control programs, and primary healthcare reforms), and innovative financing in global health. He is a co-Investigator and the joint lead for the innovation work stream at the National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management at Imperial College. He is also a co-Investigator and the Theme Lead for ‘Organisational Change, Sustainability and Evaluation’ at Imperial College and Cambridge University Health Protection Research Unit for Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection. He has published widely in the Lancet, PLoS Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases, BMJ, AIDS, and Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

Professor Atun earned a Medical degree from the University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar. He completed postgraduate medical training in Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of London and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, where he also earned a master’s degree in Business Administration. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.