Access Project, Founder and Director

Josh is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the founder and director of the Access Project, the Millennium Villages Project in Rwanda, and Access’ Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program. Josh has extensive experience operating at the intersection of public health, business and international development. In 1996, Josh joined Monitor Group and in 2000, he co-founded and served as vice president of ontheFRONTIER, a strategy consulting firm. During his years there and at the Monitor Group, he led projects in a several developing countries and was an advisor to government and private sector leaders on business strategy and economic development.

He holds a B.A. in History of Science and Medicine from Yale University, where he was a Truman Scholar. He received a Masters of Public Health from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in History from the University of London, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.