2026 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium
Secretary Condoleezza Rice, PhD, MS
Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution
Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy
Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm. From January 2005 to January 2009, Rice served as the 66th U.S. Secretary of State, the second woman and first black woman to hold the post. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 2001 to January 2005, the first woman to hold the position. From February 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on President George H. W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. Rice served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999. As Professor of Political Science, she has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the university’s highest teaching honors. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver; her master’s in the same subject from the University of Notre Dame; and her Ph.D., likewise in political science, from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
Dr. Eran Bendavid, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Health Policy
Eran Bendavid is a Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy here at Stanford. Bendavid has been the co-convener of this Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Symposium since 2019. An infectious diseases physician, Bendavid is also a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health. He focuses on the health impacts of foreign aid, armed conflict, natural disasters, COVID-19, and global health policies. With special relevance to today’s topic, Eran’s work on PEPFAR has been instrumental in establishing that this massive U.S. foreign aid program has saved live and benefitted the United States. Bendavid was the first awardee of the Rosenkranz Prize—completing the circle and intent of the prize.
Dr. Jennifer Kates, PhD, MS
Senior Vice President
Director of Global and Public Health Policy at KFF
Jennifer Kates is senior vice president and director of the Global and Public Health Policy Program at KFF, where she oversees policy analysis and research focused on the U.S. government’s role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. She also helps lead KFF’s work on public health issues, including on vaccine policy. Widely regarded as an expert in the field, she regularly publishes and presents on global health and HIV policy issues and is particularly known for her work analyzing donor government investments in global health; assessing and mapping the U.S. government’s global health architecture, programs, and funding; and tracking and analyzing major U.S. HIV programs and financing, and key trends in the HIV epidemic, an area she has been working in for close to 30 years. Prior to joining KFF in 1998, Kates was a Senior Associate with The Lewin Group, a health care consulting firm, where she focused on HIV policy, strategic planning/health systems analysis, and health care for vulnerable populations.
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Expert Panel
Stefano Bertozzi, MD, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management
Stefano M. Bertozzi is former dean and professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Previously, he directed the HIV and tuberculosis programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bertozzi worked at the Mexican National Institute of Public Health as director of its Center for Evaluation Research and Surveys. He was the last director of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS and has also held positions with UNAIDS, the World Bank and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bertozzi is the founding editor-in-chief of Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases (RRID), an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of infectious disease-related research.
Joseph Dieleman, PhD, Professor of Health Metric Sciences
Joseph Dieleman is a professor of health metric sciences at the University of Washington and leads the resource tracking research team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). His team estimates healthcare spending by disease, tracks development assistance for health spending, and projects healthcare expenditures. They use novel methods to estimate healthcare value, cost of illness, and poverty rates, aiming to provide policymakers with data that promotes health equity and outcomes while managing costs.
Jennifer Kates, PhD, Senior VP and Director of the Global and Public Health Policy Program at KFF
Jennifer Kates oversees KFF policy analysis and research focused on the U.S. government’s role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. She also helps lead KFF’s work on public health issues, including on vaccine policy. Widely regarded as an expert in the field, she regularly publishes and presents on global health and HIV policy issues and is particularly known for her work analyzing donor government investments in global health; assessing and mapping the U.S. government’s global health architecture, programs, and funding; and tracking and analyzing major U.S. HIV programs and financing, and key trends in the HIV epidemic—an area she has been working in for close to 30 years.
Mamphela Ramphele, PhD, Co-Founder and Advisor, ReimagineSA
Mamphela Ramphele is a medical doctor, activist, academic, businesswoman, and thought leader. She was co-president of the Club of Rome from October 2018 until end of term in November 2023. Ramphele is the co-founder and global brand ambassador of ReimagineSA, a South African nonprofit that focuses on addressing social and economic issues through community engagement and empowerment initiatives. Previously, she served as a managing director at the World Bank from 2000 to 2004 and as vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1996 to 2000. The social anthropologist is an author and recipient of many awards, including 24 honorary degrees.
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FULL AGENDA
1:00 PM-1:15 PM Registration
1:15 PM-1:30 PM Rosenkranz Prize Winner Announcement
1:30 PM-3:00 PM Keynote Conversation with Secretary Condoleezza Rice,
Dr. Eran Bendavid and Dr. Jennifer Kates
3:00 PM-3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM-4:45 PM Panel Discussion Moderated by Michele Barry
Senior Associate Dean of Global Health, Stanford Medicine
Stefano Bertozzi
Joseph Dieleman
Jennifer Kates
Mamphela Ramphele
4:45 PM-6:00 PM: Reception (Bechtel Courtyard behind Encina Hall)
