David Bowen comes to Malaria No More from the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he served as deputy director for global health policy and advocacy. In this role, he has responsibility for interactions between the foundation and governments worldwide on global health. Dr. Bowen was formerly chief health counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy and staff director for health of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. He left the Senate staff following the successful enactment of health care reform legislation. In 1999, Dr. Bowen joined the staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions as a Congressional Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 2000 to 2002, he held a joint appointment as a visiting fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining the committee staff, Dr. Bowen received his undergraduate education at Brown University then earned a PhD in neurobiology at the University of California, San Francisco.