# Matthew Bonds Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School ![Matthew Bonds Profile Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/african-studies/files/matthew_bonds.png?itok=h4gY-y1_) laptop\_windows Matthew Bonds has a PhD in economics and a PhD in (disease) ecology from the University of Georgia. He is an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder & scientific director of PIVOT. His research focuses on 1) the ecology of poverty and economic development; and 2) the science of implementing global health delivery systems. PIVOT works with the Madagascar government to establish a district level model health system for over 200,000 people. With novel data systems at all levels of care (community, primary and secondary care), this partnership is pioneering a new a science of health system transformation, with some of the most rigorously evaluated population level impacts in the world. His work has been supported by a K01 Award from the NIH Fogarty International Center, a Scholar Award in Complex Systems Science from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellowship from the Mulago Foundation. - ## People [Faculty Affiliates](/people-categories/faculty-affiliates)