Experts > Expert Profile: Yonette Thomas

Yonette Thomas

Founding Board Member, Women’s Economic Imperative

CV

  • Global Advisor, Centre for Urban Health and Development within the Asian Institute of Poverty Alleviation (CUHD-AIPA) 
  • Former Chief of the Epidemiology Research Branch; and Program Director for the social epidemiology program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, USA   
  • Founding Board member, International Society for Urban Health 
  • Former Science Advisor for Urban Health, New York Academy of Medicine
  • Founding Board Member and Vice President, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science  
  • Former Member, Steering Committee of the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse  

Policy Briefs

Urban Health Governance for Sustainable Development: Data-Knowledge-Action Systems for Urban and Planetary Health

Policy area: Digital Governance, Security and Connectivity
Yonette Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative ), Nicolas You (Guangzhou Institute of Urban Innovation, China), Franz Gatzweiler (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Urbanization, Health and Sustainable Development: Quality of Life as an Enabling Framework

Yonette Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative ), Wendy M. Purcell (Rutgers School of Public Health, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health & Justice)
G20 Saudi Arabia 2020

Reaffirming the significance of global public goods for health: Global solidarity in response to Covid-19 and future shocks

TF11 - (COVID-19) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Complex Problems Policy Briefs
Policy area: Global Health and Covid-19
Obijiofor Aginam (UN University-International Institute for Global Health), Sainath Banerjee (Asian Development Bank - Center for Urban Health and Development), Alex Ezeh (Drexel University, Philadelphia), Sandro Galea (Boston University School of Public Health), Blessing Mberu (African Population and Health Research Center), Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi (University of Yaoundé), Osondu Ogbuoji (Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University), K. Srikanth Reddy (Bruyère Research Institute), Margo Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative (WEI)), Gavin Yamey (Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University), Yonette Thomas (Women’s Economic Imperative ), Franz Gatzweiler (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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