Jayne Lux
Director, Global Health Benefits Institute
Jayne Lux directs the Global Health Benefits Institute at the National Business Group on Health, an initiative designed to the meet growing needs of multinational corporations through collaborative information exchange, joint problem solving, and the development of innovative approaches to global health care challenges. Ms. Lux is also responsible for the Pandemic Planning activities at the Business Group.
Previously, she was the Director of Board Operations at the American Psychological Association (APA) where she oversaw the activities of the Board of Professional Affairs and served as the organization's liaison to the World Health Organization.
Prior to her position at the APA, Ms. Lux served as a Senior Technical Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland where she coordinated field trials in 18 countries for the development of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, a system used worldwide to describe human functioning in the context of health conditions. Additionally, she oversaw field activities in 19 countries for the development of a cross-culturally applicable measure of disability.
Ms. Lux's earlier experience included four years at Washington University School of Medicine where she directed the Professional Development Office in the Program in Occupational Therapy. For the first ten years of her career, Ms. Lux was on staff at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC where she practiced as a supervisory speech-language pathologist in the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Programs. Ms. Lux is a member of the Global Health Council and the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. She earned Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in Communication Disorders from the Pennsylvania State University.
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