William R. Rodriguez

Biography

William Rodriguez, MD, is a specialist in global health diagnostics and health care delivery in the developing world. As a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty, he established a research program on global AIDS policy and the use of appropriate diagnostics. In 2003 he was asked to assist the South African government with the development and launch of its landmark national HIV treatment program. He left Harvard to become the Chief Medical Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation, where he helped broker pricing agreements between African and Asian governments, and the major suppliers of HIV drugs and diagnostic tests, such as BD, bioMérieux, Roche, and Cipla. He remained at the Clinton Foundation through 2007, where he worked with the major diagnostics companies, governments, and local clinics to build the market for the available HIV, TB and malaria diagnostic systems, bringing essential tests to places where they had not previously been accessible. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on global HIV and tuberculosis treatment, has been an advisor to more than a dozen national governments, and served as a member of the WHO’s global HIV guidelines committee. In 2008, he co-founded Daktari Diagnostics, and serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine.