John Borrazzo

John Borrazzo, Ph.D. is an independent global health analyst, advocate, and policy advisor and holds an appointment as a part-time Professorial Lecturer in the GWU Milken School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health. In a career that has been devoted to addressing inequities in health outcomes for children, he served for over 30 years in various roles across government, multilateral organizations, and international non-governmental organizations, working in over 17 countries. This included most recently serving as Lead Advisor, Child Health in the Department of Global Health at Save the Children U.S. in Washington DC (2021-2025) and as Senior Health Specialist for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health at the World Bank-hosted Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (2018-2021).

Previously, he had a long career at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where he implemented environmental health, water supply and sanitation, and maternal and child health programs for over 25 years, playing a leadership role in helping formulate global policy, supporting research and innovation, and building collaboration across sectors within USAID and with multilateral institutions, private sector, NGO partners, and other donors. 

Dr. Borrazzo received Masters and Ph.D. degrees researching various issues in indoor air quality at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, completed post-doctoral research at the then-Institute for Water, Soil, and Air Hygiene in Berlin, Germany, and holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard University. He was also one of the Commissioners on the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission “A Future for the World’s Children?” which issued its report in February 2020.