NVAC Public Member: David Fleming, MD

NVAC Public Member | Term: 9/9/2015 – 9/9/2019 

David Fleming, MD Head ShotDr. David Fleming is PATH’s vice president of Public Health which houses programs in reproductive health, maternal newborn and child health and nutrition, noncommunicable diseases, malaria control and elimination, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, health strengthening systems and digital health solutions. He also oversees cross-programmatic collaboration at PATH which seeks to maximize the impact of our work across the value chain in critical health areas, including maternal and neonatal health, diarrheal disease, and malaria.

Before joining PATH in 2014, Dr. Fleming served as the director and health officer for Public Health - Seattle and King County (PHSKC), with a budget of more than $300 million, serving a resident population of 2 million. Prior to that, Dr. Fleming was director of Global Health Strategies at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, overseeing a grant portfolio of more than $1 billion in vaccine-preventable disease, nutrition, maternal and child health, leadership, emergency relief, community health programs, and human resources and health information. Dr. Fleming also served as deputy director at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Science and Public Health, and as deputy administrator of the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Dr. Fleming is a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Oregon Health Services Center and his preventive medicine residency at the CDC.

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