CCST Board Member
Harvey V. Fineberg
Board of Directors
Harvey V. Fineberg
Professor Emeritus
Harvard University
Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, is professor emeritus of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University and serves as a vice president of the American Philosophical Society. He previously served as president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, president of the U.S. Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine), provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His policy and research interests span science and health, and his research has touched on topics as varied as reproducibility in science, medical decision making, global health, and response to pandemics.
Fineberg previously chaired the boards of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Science Philanthropy Alliance, and he currently chairs the CMB Foundation. He previously served on the boards of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, the Association FXB (USA), and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), and he currently serves on the
board of the Charles Darwin Foundation.
Fineberg serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, the foresight committee of the Veolia Environment Institute, and the scientific advisory board of the Singapore National Research Foundation. He chairs the advisory board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare. During the COVID pandemic and until the end of 2025, Fineberg chaired the U.S. National Academies standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and 21st-century health threats.
Fineberg has written and edited books on such diverse topics as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, understanding risk in society, clinical decision analysis, pandemic preparedness, Long COVID, and global health. He is the recipient of several honorary degrees and other awards, including the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health and the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
