Stephen Gloyd is the Associate Chair of the Department of Global Health, Professor of Global Health and Health Services, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, the Evan School, Family Medicine, and the Industrial Engineering Program and UW Seattle.  He received his M.D. in Family Practice Medicine at the University of Chicago, a M.P.H. in Health Policy Management and a B.A. in Biochemistry at Harvard University. 

Dr. Gloyd serves as director of education and curriculum activities in the Department of Global Health. He is also Executive Director of Health Alliance International, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that provides support to Ministries of Health in Mozambique, East Timor, Ivory Coast, and Sudan. Dr. Gloyd teaches about the history and political economy of global health from a social justice perspective, research methods for developing countries, and management for global health. He has over 30 years’ experience working in Africa and Latin America, and his work has focused on improving primary health care through implementation science, with an emphasis on maternal-child health, malaria, tuberculosis, and STD/AIDS programs.  His research interests include: infectious disease epidemiology (STD, TB, EPI), health systems research, and political economy of health and impact and equity in health care.