In July 2006 Jamison became Professor of Development Economics at the University of California, San Francisco and, concurrently (for 2006-08) the T. & G. Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development in the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health, Harvard Univesity. Before joining the UCSF and Harvard faculties, Jamison had been at UCLA (1988-2006) and previously at the World Bank where he was a senior economist in the research department, division chief for education policy, and division chief for population, health and nutrition. In 1992-93 he temporarily rejoined the World Bank to serve as Director of the World Development Report Office and as lead author for the Banks 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health. His publications are in the areas of economic theory, public health and education. Jamison recently led the Disease Control Priorities Project, for which he was senior editor of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition, and an editor of Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, both published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Jamison studied at Stanford (A.B., Philosophy; M.S., Engineering Sciences) and at Harvard (Ph.D., Economics, under K.J. Arrow). In 1994 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Jamison has served frequently on advisory groups to national and international organizations and currently chairs the Advisory Group on Economics, Finance and Impact for the World Health Organizations Global Malaria Programme.