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ZUCKER, Howard ADr. Howard Zucker, M.D., J.D., is the Assistant Director General of the WHO for Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals and also the Representative of the WPO Director General for Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Public Health. He received his B.S. degree from McGill University and his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, anaesthesiology at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, pediatric critical care medicine and paediatric anaesthesiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and pediatric cardiology at Children’s Hospital Boston at Harvard Medical School. He was an Assistant Professor at Yale University School of Medicine, an Associate Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Adjunct Associate Professor at Cornell University Medical School, research affiliate at M.I.T. and on the faculty at the National Institutes of Health. He received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and his Masters in Law from Columbia Law School. Dr Zucker served as a White House Fellow and most recently was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He completed the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative Executive Education program at the Kennedy School of Government/Harvard School of Public Health and is admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Dr Zucker is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and listed in Best Doctors in America and Who’s Who in the World.
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