Jim Larson

Jim Larson joined Boston Consulting Group in 2004. He is a core member of BCG’s Health Care and Social Impact practices. Jim also leads the firm’s partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jim has spent time in BCG’s Washington DC, Mumbai, and Seattle offices, primarily working in health care and global public health. He has also led a number of related efforts engaging the private sector on global health topics, and is particularly active in the driving impact of digital in global health.

In his role leading the firm’s work with the Gates Foundation, Jim supports strategy development and execution for the foundation and their grantees. He has worked with the foundation for more than ten years, and has contributed to more than 60 projects for nearly all of their global program teams.

Before joining BCG, Jim focused on economic and health policy at Harvard University.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Health care
Global public health
Digital health
Innovation ecosystem development
Nonprofit transformation and enablement
Strategy development
Advanced analytics and geospatial analysis
Market attractiveness
Consumer behavior analysis

EDUCATION

AB, economics, cum laude, Harvard University

Publications and Videos

Winning the Fight Against Endemic COVID-19

COVID-19 will likely become endemic. If so, a global surveillance, treatment and vaccination infrastructure for monitoring and responding to outbreaks must be developed now.

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Reimagining Global Health After the Coronavirus

What has worked, what can be improved, and what needs to be reimagined so that we are better prepared for the next pandemic and better able to improve health in the world’s poorest nations?

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Three Principles to Guide Africa’s COVID-19 Response

African governments must develop a response that is comprehensive, adaptive, and implemented effectively in order to take fast action in several areas.

Fighting COVID-19 in Africa Will Be Different

The impact of COVID-19 in Africa may be mitigated by the youthful population—but a constrained health system and high incidence of other health conditions will intensify the challenge.

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Six Ways to Speed Progress on the Health SDGs

To meet the UN’s health-related Sustainable Development Goals, NGOs and low-income countries will have to do two to four times as much with every dollar that they currently spend.

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How Mobile Money Agents Can Expand Financial Inclusion

Entrepreneurs who offer banking via mobile devices could finally put financial services within reach for 1.7 billion adults around the globe.

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Tech Disruption Comes to Global Sanitation

The humble toilet is undergoing a transformation, unlocking a vast new opportunity—not just to capture value but also to change lives.

Cross-Country Individual Participant Analysis of 4.1 Million Singleton Births in 5 Countries with Very High Human Development Index Confirms Known Associations but Provides No Biologic Explanation for 2/3 of All Preterm Births

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Born Too Soon: Accelerating actions for prevention and care of 15 million newborns born too soon

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Preterm Births in Countries with a Very High Human Development Index

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Preventing Preterm Births: Analysis of Trends and Potential Reductions with Interventions in 39 Countries with Very High Human Development Index

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