Ashwin Budden, PhD is a medical anthropologist and independent global health advisor (Principal, D'EVA Consulting) and was a Research Fellow in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School (2024-5). He has two decades of experience in health systems, policy, and community-based research and evaluation in nearly twenty countries. His work has focused on access, quality, and equity in vaccine and pharmaceutical delivery, reproductive and maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and integrated primary health care programs. He has collaborated with and advised the Gates Foundation, the NIH, USAID, WHO, and the World Bank and their grantees. Dr. Budden also works on bioethics and policy in biodiversity and genomics research and innovation for public health. He co-leads an initiative of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health focusing on ethical, legal, and social implications of pathogen genomic data sharing for pandemic security and has a Harvard-funded project on responsible innovation in psychedelic therapies.