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Dr. Mariam Claeson: 

FUTURE PERSPECTIVES FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE BURDEN BY 2030: DISEASE CONTROL PRIORITIES IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

Mariam Claeson, M.D., M.P.H., is a Program Coordinator for AIDS in the South Asia Region of the World Bank since January 2005. She was the Lead Public Health Specialist in the Health, Nutrition and Population, Human Development Network, 1998- 2004, managing the HNP Millennium Development Goals work program to support accelerated progress in countries (2002-2004). Mariam Claeson coauthored the World Bank report on The Millennium Development Goals for Health; Rising to the Challenges (2004). She was a member of the "What Works" working group of the Center for Global Development, contributing to the report Millions Saved; Proven Successes in Global Health (2005) and she is also a coeditor of the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries second edition.

Mariam Claeson is currently the task team leader for the third National AIDS Project in India and served as the team leader for the preparation of the Afghanistan HIV/AIDS Prevention Project in 2007. Since joining the South Asia Region, Mariam has contributed to a series of analytical work on AIDS in South Asia: AIDS in South Asia: Understanding and Responding to a Heterogeneous Epidemic (2006) and HIV and AIDS in South Asia: A Risk to Economic Development (2009) and Tackling stigma and discrimination (2010). The regional multi sector team, coordinated by Dr Claeson, conducts economic sector work, provides technical support to operations, supports targeted intervention for prevention of HIV, including impact evaluation and social mapping, and convenes cross border consultations of priority regional issues. The South Asia Development Marketplace (2008) Tackling stigma and discrimination related to HIV, has provided grants to civil society to implement community innovations to tackle stigma throughout the region.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Mariam Claeson worked with WHO from 1987-1995, for several years as program manager for the WHO Global Program for the Control of Diarrheal Diseases. She has several years of field experience, in clinical practice at the rural district level (in Tanzania, Bangladesh and Bhutan); in national program management on immunization and diarrhoeal disease control with WHO (Ethiopia 1984-1986); and in health sector development projects in low- and mid-income countries, including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Nepal and Uzbekistan.