Dr. David Hausner
David Hausner, PhD, MPH, MIA has extensive leadership experience in global health, especially in HIV prevention and care, with leadership experience in capacity building, senior program and personnel management, partnership building and collaboration, grant and contract management, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation. He managed global health programs for more than 20 years in India, Central Asia, and Cambodia, and conducted trainings, evaluations, and strategic planning in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Dr. Hausner is also adjunct faculty at George Washington University, Milken School of Public Health, where he teaches a master’s degree course on program evaluation.
Most recently as Program Director at the Public Health Institute, Dr. Hausner was responsible for the overall leadership and management of the $113 million Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) program, a global health internship and fellowship program, and the $15 million Generation Next Humanitarian Fellowship Program, both funded by USAID, as well as the Packard Foundation- and Hewlett Foundation-funded Roots Initiative in India. He worked closely with USAID to support improving the capacity of emerging global health and humanitarian leaders through partnering with public health institutions, including government, non-government, private, and academic institutions in the US and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and with the Packard Foundation and Hewlett Foundation to build organizational effectiveness among local, Indian NGOs.
Dr. Hausner was the Chief of Party in India from 2013-2016 for the CDC-funded Strategic Assessments for Strategic Action (SASA) project, and Country Director in India from 2009-2012 for the USAID-funded AIDSTAR-One project. Between 2005 and 2009, Dr. Hausner was Regional Director for the USAID-funded, $15 million, HIV-related CAPACITY Project in five countries in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), where he and his team leveraged an additional $2 million from the World Bank’s Central Asia AIDS Project. Dr. Hausner also spent three years (2002-2005) as the HIV and infectious diseases Team Leader for USAID in Cambodia, and has completed short-term technical assistance to conduct trainings, evaluations, and strategic planning in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Saint Lucia, and Dominican Republic, among others.
Dr. Hausner earned his Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of International Affairs (MIA) from Columbia University, and his PhD in Global Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.