Eugene V. Bonventre

Eugene Bonventre, M.D., is a senior associate at CSIS and cochair of the CSIS Health and Security Working Group. He specializes in the intersection of global health and national security and assists academia, governmental agencies, international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to deal more effectively with the military in the areas of civil-military health, complex emergencies, post-conflict reconstruction, and health diplomacy. He recently advised the U.S. Agency for International Development on the implementation of its civilian military policy. At RAND’s Global Health Center, Dr. Bonventre supports a study on the NGO-military relationship and the creation of a handbook for the monitoring and evaluation of military humanitarian assistance programs. He is also an adjunct assistant professor of surgery and of preventive medicine and biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Bonventre retired as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force in October 2008. His 25-year career included clinical assignments in Korea, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany and international health strategy work for the Headquarters of U.S. Air Forces Europe, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Joint Forces Command. He served on the United Kingdom’s post-conflict advisory team in Sierra Leone in 2001 and on the country team in Freetown for two U.S. ambassadors. His final assignment was as a senior international health policy adviser in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy. Dr. Bonventre has published articles in three languages, most recently on military humanitarian policy, on monitoring and evaluation, and on humanitarian assistance in the Ladakh Himalayas. He is a flight surgeon, a board-certified general surgeon, and a diplomat in the medical care of catastrophes awarded by the Society of Apothecaries of St. James, London. Dr. Bonventre has delivered more than 50 invited presentations in 22 countries.