David Bowen, CEO of non-profit Malaria No More, has joined Hill+Knowlton Strategies to head its global healthcare unit. He reports to Vivian Lines, vice chairman and chief of global practices.

Daniel McIntyre, H+K/s worldwide health director, left the firm in 2011 to move in-house at Biogen Idec.

Bowen had been deputy director of global health and policy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Earlier, he championed Obamacare through the Senate as staff director for health at Ted Kennedy’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Jack Martin, CEO of H+K, praised Bowen’s “international pedigree and tremendous reputation throughout the healthcare world.“

Bowen begins July 1.