David McCoy is the Evidence to Policy Research Lead at the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) based in Malaysia. Prior to this he was Professor of Global Public Health at the Institute of Population Health Sciences in the Barts and the London Medical and Dental School at Queen Mary University London where he served as Director of Education and Director of the Centre for Global Public. Previous jobs include Director of Technical Support with the Health Systems Trust, where he worked on the post-apartheid transformation of South Africa’s health care system and Director of Medact, a UK-based global health charity. He was a member of the Peoples Health Movement Steering Council for ten years, and the co-managing editor of its first two Global Health Watches.
His aspiration as a member of the Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment is to see greater volumes of public finance generated and used to serve the public interest, and to limit the harms caused by financialization and private finance in health and development.