Victor Dzau MD

Victor J. Dzau is the President of the United States National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and serves as Vice-Chair of the US National Research Council. He is also Chancellor Emeritus of Duke University. Previously, Professor Dzau was Chairman of Medicine at Harvard and Stanford Universities. His seminal work laid the foundation for the development of lifesaving drugs known as ACE inhibitors, used globally to treat hypertension and heart failure. He also pioneered gene therapy for vascular disease.

Professor Dzau has served as Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee and now chairs the NIH Cardiovascular Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium. He also chairs the International Scientific Committee of Qatar Precision Health and is a Member of the Health Biomedical Sciences Advisory Council of Singapore. In addition, he has previously served on the Board of Health Governors of the World Economic Forum and co-chairs the Distributed Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative. He founded the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke NUS Medical School in Singapore, and the Division of Global Health Equity at Harvard.

Leading the NAM, Professor Dzau has launched important initiatives such as the Global Health Risk Framework (2016), the Global Health and the Future Role of the US (2017), Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience (2017), Crossing the Global Quality Chasm (2018), Human Genome Editing (2017), and the NAM Grand Challenge in Climate Change, Human Health & Equity.

Victor is an inaugural director on the board of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), a Principal of the Global Access to COVID Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator), was on the interim board of the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation (CEPI), and is on the board of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Currently, he is co-chair of the G20-European Commission Scientific Expert Panel on Global Health Security and Advisor to the G20 High-Level Independent Panel on Sustainable Financing for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response. He chairs the International Advisory Board of McGill’s School of Population and Global Health. Professor Dzau holds both a BSc in Biology and an MD and DSc from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.