Dr. David Walton brings over 20 years of experience working in global health to his role as U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator.
His experience includes working as a physician on the ground in Haiti to fight cholera and on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. David joins USAID after serving as the Senior Director of Global Health at the Butterfly Network, Inc., co-founding Build Health International, and working 15 years with Partners In Health. He was also previously an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the first Doris and Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity resident.