Education, Health, and Development
Contributor
David E. Bloom is
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography and chairman of the
Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public
Health. His recent work has focused on primary, secondary, and higher education
in developing countries and on the links among population health, demographic change,
and economic growth. He has been on the faculty of the public policy school at Carnegie
Mellon University and the economics departments of Harvard University and Columbia
University. He is a fellow of the American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Arts and Sciences and codirector
of the project on Universal Basic and Secondary Education.