Daniel Zoughbie

Dr. Daniel Zoughbie is a social scientist, entrepreneur, and affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He is also Associate Project Scientist at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, where he teaches in the areas of international security, history, development, public health, and political science. Previously, Dr. Zoughbie held positions at Harvard, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. His peer-reviewed research, which covers the fields of population health, social networks, and international security, has been published in The Lancet Global Health, Diabetes, Preventive Medicine Reports, JAIDS, Circulation, and in book form, by MIT Press.

He is Founder, President, and CEO of Microclinic International (MCI), a non-profit and non-governmental organization that uses complex systems insights to prevent and manage major disease epidemics. Under his leadership, MCI's methodologies were adopted for national scale in Mexico and Jordan, at a regional level in Tennessee/Kentucky, and at a multi-country level for refugees via the United Nations. For his public health scholarship-activism reaching over 10 million people, he
was awarded the Drs. Anvar and Pari Velji Emerging Leader in Global Health Innovation Faculty Award by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Annual Conference.

Prior to postdoctoral studies at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard, Dr. Zoughbie graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors from UC Berkeley. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar. Previously, he was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation, which serves 40,000 students.