Kimberly Green

Dr. Kimberly Green is PATH’s Global Director for Primary Health Care (PHC) overseeing people-centered systems and service delivery in 34 countries. Dr. Green has more than 30 years of experience focused on health service delivery integration and innovation. She is passionate about advancing health care through decentralization, task-shifting and community leadership; market-based approaches; telemedicine and other digital tools; self-care approaches such as self-testing; and innovative health financing.

Throughout her career, she has partnered with governments, communities, and the private sector across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America to advance PHC innovations and reforms, including those related to infectious and noncommunicable diseases and health promotion.

Dr. Green holds a master’s degree in International Health and Development from The George Washington University in Washington, DC; a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington Department for Global Health. She is also an advisor to the International PHC Institute in Ethiopia and Deputy Editor for the Journal of the International AIDS Society.

Dr. Green was recently confirmed as a Commissioner for the Lancet Global Health Commission on People-Centered Care for Universal Health Coverage (UHC); a member of the World Health Organization Global Validation Advisory Committee for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B and elimination of viral hepatitis B and C; and a member of the UHC-focused Thai Prince Mahidol Award Conference.

She has published extensively in peer‑reviewed journals, regularly presents at abstract‑driven conferences, and is frequently engaged by the World Health Organization as a member of guideline development groups and expert commissions.