Matthew Bonds

Matthew Bonds has a PhD in economics and a PhD in (disease) ecology from the University of Georgia. He is an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder & scientific director of PIVOT. His research focuses on 1) the ecology of poverty and economic development; and 2) the science of implementing global health delivery systems. PIVOT works with the Madagascar government to establish a district level model health system for over 200,000 people. With novel data systems at all levels of care (community, primary and secondary care), this partnership is pioneering a new a science of health system transformation, with some of the most rigorously evaluated population level impacts in the world. His work has been supported by a K01 Award from the NIH Fogarty International Center, a Scholar Award in Complex Systems Science from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship from the Mulago Foundation.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Odum School of Ecology (2003 — 2006)
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Georgia - Terry College of Business (1999 — 2003)

Companies

• Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School (2021)
• Co-founder & Scientific Director PIVOT Works, Inc. (2018)
• Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School (2015)
• Co-founder & Founding Director PIVOT Works, Inc. (2013 — 2018)
• Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth System Science Stanford University (2015 — 2017)
• Research Associate Harvard Medical School (2011 — 2015)
• Research Associate Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2009 — 2011)
• Postdoctoral Fellow The Earth Institute, Columbia University (2006 — 2008)