Joel Lamstein
| Joel Lamstein | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
MIT Sloan School of Management (M.B.A.) University of Michigan (B.S.) |
| Occupation | President: John Snow, Inc, JSI Research & Training, World Education |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Website | jsi.com |
Joel Lamstein is the co-founder and president of John Snow, Inc. (JSI) and JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., international public health research and consulting firms. Founded in 1978, JSI has more than 2,100 employees worldwide dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities, working across the United States and the world.
Joel Lamstein is also the president of World Education, a nonprofit organization committed "to improving the lives of the impoverished through education, economic, and social development programs."
Joel Lamstein was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is married to Sarah Lamstein and has three children.
Lamstein graduated from the University of Michigan in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science in Math and Physics. He was present for President John F. Kennedy's announcement of the creation of the Peace Corps in 1960.
After graduation, Lamstein worked at IBM before attending the MIT Sloan School of Management . While at Sloan, Lamstein became involved in anti-war activities. His MIT professors took notice and invited him to do the computer model programming on a public health research project, introducing him to the field of global health.
In 1971, Lamstein co-founded Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a nonprofit international health organization that works to improve health service management systems. In 1978, Joel Lamstein and Norbert Hirschhorn left MSH and founded John Snow, Incorporated (JSI), named after the father of epidemiology, John Snow, and initially launched as a small for-profit business focused on health care in the United States. In 1979, Lamstein launched an affiliated nonprofit partner, JSI Research & Training Institute, and in 1980, the organizations began working internationally. In addition to leading JSI, in 1982 Lamstein assumed the role of president of World Education, an organization founded in 1951 to meet the needs of the educationally disadvantaged, particularly women and girls.
Today, Joel Lamstein leads almost 3,000 staff from three organizations in 88 countries, implementing more than 250 projects that strengthen health and educational systems, build community skills and support, and address people’s health care and literacy needs.
Lamstein is on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health). He has also lectured at various universities including: the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, MIT Sloan School, the Boston University School of Public Health, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on organizational strategy, nonprofit management, international development, and strategic management. In 2016, Lamstein was appointed Chair of Dean’s Advisory Board at Boston University School of Public Health.
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