
Background
- Independent Consultant (Adolescent Health) and Senior Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Immediate Past President IAAH (2013-2016)
Bruce Dick
MB, DCM, MFPHM
Bruce Dick has spent the last 30 years working internationally in the field of adolescent health, since 2010 as an independent consultant, and prior to this from 2001-2010 with the World Health Organization, Geneva, and from 1992-2001 as Senior Adviser, Youth Health, UNICEF, New York. Dick qualified in medicine from Guy’s Hospital, London, in 1972, and after starting off in paediatrics moved to community medicine, working in South Africa and the United Kingdom. In the early 1980’s he was a research fellow on refugee health in the Evaluation and Planning Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and from 1984-1991 was Head of the Health Section, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva. He was a co-founder of the NGO Health Poverty Action and was a member of the NCD Child Advisory Council. He has published extensively on adolescent health and a range of other public health priorities.