Global Health Institute

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Roberto Rodríguez is an education policy leader whose career spans senior roles across the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government. In this conversation, he will share insights from his service as assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development at the U.S. Department of Education, his work in the White House and U.S. Senate shaping federal education policy, and his perspective as a Doris Duke Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University.

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Roberto Rodríguez formerly served as assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development at the U.S. Department of Education, where he led the development and review of the department’s budget and advised the secretary on all matters related to policy development, implementation, and review. He will join Georgetown University as a Doris Duke Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Rodríguez’s distinguished career in public service includes senior government roles in the White House as deputy assistant for education to President Barack Obama and in the U.S. Senate as chief counsel to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

John T. Monahan, J.D., is a senior advisor to the Georgetown University Global Health Institute, a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and a senior scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.

This event is hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise.