Dr. Tadataka Yamada, an unsavory bully who served as president of the Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program from 2005 to 2011, was the former research director for GlaxoSmithKline.175 He left GSK just a few steps ahead of a US Senate Finance Committee seeking to question him about multiple accusations that he conducted an intimidation campaign to threaten and silence prominent doctors exploring the British drugmaker for knowingly killing some 83,000 Americans with its blockbuster diabetes drug, Avandia.
