Jonathan D. Quick

Dr. Jonathan D. Quick (“Jono”) is President and CEO of Management Sciences for Health, an 800-person nonprofit international health consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a regular Moderator with the Trinity Forum in Europe and the U.S.

A family physician and author, Jono recently returned to the U.S. from nine years as Director, Essentual Drugs and Medicines Policy with the World Health Organization in Geneva.

Dr. Quick has served as a long-term advisor for health systems development in Pakistan and Kenya and has carried out assignments in over 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He practised family medicine in the U.S. Indian Health Service in Oklahoma and Boston. He has worked in the area of essential medicines since 1978 and is senior editor of Managing Drug Supply (1997), the standard reference on essential medicines and public health by Management Sciences for Health and the WHO.

Dr. Quick has co-authored eleven books, including the 2002 Financial Times Guide to Executive Health, and over 50 articles and chapters on essential medicines, public health, stress management, and executive health. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Public Health; a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK); and a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Quick earned an AB degree magna cum laude from Harvard University and an MD degree with distinction in research and an MPH from the University of Rochester. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Tina. They have three daughters. He enjoys jogging, skiing, and drumming for worship, jazz, and rock’n’roll.