Lori DiPrete Brown is currently the Assistant Director of the UW-Madison Center for Global Health. She is responsible for facilitating global health education, and faculty and student exchanges, and partnerships between UW and universities in other countries. She began her study of Public Health as and undergraduate at Yale University, and, after a tour with the Peace Corps in Honduras (1983-1985) she pursued graduate studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1988-1990 she worked at Harvard University's Institute for International Development where she conducted research in quality assurance in Costa Rica and Cameroon. Subsequently she joined University Research Corporation/Center for Human Services in Bethesda, Maryland. At URC she continued working in international quality assurance through USAID's global Quality Assurance Project, which was implemented in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. In addition to serving as Deputy Director of the Quality Assurance Project from 1991-1994, she led a team that collaborated with the government of Chile in the development of a national QA program. She also conducted quality-related operations research and training in Ecuador, Guatemala, Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh and Senegal. She has published monographs and articles on the development of quality assurance programs, and recently collaborated with PAHO on the development of a framework that explores the role of Quality Assurance in Health Sector Reform.