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“……Global health is the goal of improving health for all people in all nations by promoting wellness and eliminating avoidable disease, disability, and death. It can be attained by combining population-based health promotion and disease prevention measures with individual-level clinical care. This ambitious endeavor calls for an understanding of health determinants, practices, and solutions, as well as basic and applied research on risk factors, disease, and disability….”
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The committee examined whether the existing architecture, investments, and activities of the
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THOMAS R. PICKERING (Co-Chair), Vice Chairman, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; formerly, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs (retired)
HAROLD VARMUS (Co-Chair), President,
NANCY KASSEBAUM BAKER, Former U.S. Senator,
PAULO BUSS, Director, FIOCRUZ Center for Global Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
HAILE T. DEBAS, Executive Director, Global Health Sciences; Chancellor and Dean Emeritus,
MOHAMED T. EL-ASHRY, Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation,
MARIA FREIRE, President, The Albert and Mary
HELENE D. GAYLE, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE,
MARGARET A. HAMBURG,* Senior Scientist, Nuclear Threat Initiative,
J. BRYAN HEHIR, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, MA
PRABHAT JHA, Canada Research Chair in Health and Development, Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital,
JEFFREY P. KOPLAN, Vice President for Global Health; Director, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; formerly, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
RUTH LEVINE, Vice President for Programs and Operations, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development,
AFAF I. MELEIS, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of
NELSON SEWANKAMBO, Dean, Faculty of Medicine,
BENNETT SHAPIRO, Chairman, DNDi-North America; Partner, PureTech Ventures, New York; formerly, Executive Vice-President, Merck Research Laboratories (retired)
MARC VAN AMERINGEN, Executive Director, Global
IOM Anniversary Fellow RODERICK K. KING, Instructor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital Disparities Solutions Center, Boston, MA
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