Dr Bill Hawley
Principal Expert, Malaria Policy & Evidence
Dr Hawley has 40 years of experience working on malaria, vector borne diseases and public health programs. He worked for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 30 years, where he served as Country Director for Indonesia for eight years (based in Jakarta) and as Chief, Entomology Branch at CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta. For four years, he was formally seconded to UNICEF in Indonesia to support its work in eastern Indonesia on integrated malaria control. While at the CDC, he supported malaria control and elimination programs in Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia, Togo, Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia. He was also resident in Kenya for six years in the 1990s where he conducted operational research on malaria control and epidemiology.
Since 2022, he has supported the Indonesian Malaria Control Program as an advisor and has worked as a consultant for WHO in Indonesia, Timor Leste, Nepal, and Vietnam, for UNICEF in Indonesia, for URC in Myanmar, and for the President’s Malaria Initiative in Washington, DC.
Dr. Hawley obtained his BA from Duke University in Zoology, a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Oregon, and an MPH from Emory University. He has published over 130 papers on malaria and vector borne diseases.