Staff Profile

Kara Palamountain

Executive Director, Global Health Initiative

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E-mail: k-palamountain@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Kara Palamountain is a Research Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management where she serves as the Executive Director of the Global Health Initiative. Kara's research focus is centered on medical diagnostics for infectious diseases in the developing world. In 2003, she began working with Dave Kelso on an initiative to develop and produce affordable HIV diagnostics for the developing world which later obtained funding in 2006 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to her work at Kellogg, Kara worked as a management consultant in Deloitte's Healthcare practice for over six years where she specialized in Medicare Part D strategy and implementation, pharmacy benefit management, and medical injectable strategy. Kara was awarded "2003 Ford Center Honorable Mention" for a white paper on "Sustainable Foundations for HIV/AIDS Care in South Africa" which was later published in the "Kellogg Anthology on Corporate Social Responsibility."

Global Health Initiative:  http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/fordcenter/areas/global.htm