Clintons to get public health awards from Harvard
AP | Oct 24, 2013, 05.06 PM IST
BOSTON: Former President
Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton are being honored during the Harvard School of Public Health's centennial celebration.
At Thursday's ceremony in Boston, the former president will receive a
Centennial Medal along with two world health leaders. Also being honored are Dr
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group and co-founder of Partners in Health, and
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime
minister of Norway
and director-general of the World Health Organization.
Chelsea Clinton will receive the Next
Generation Award.
The Centennial Medals honor people whose
leadership has had a significant global impact, improving the health and
well-being of people around the world.
The Next Generation Award honors someone
under 40 whose commitment to health inspires young people to make "health
for all" a global priority.
William J. Clinton
William
J. Clinton was the president for the William J. Clinton
administration, is the founding chairman for the Clinton Global Initiative, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), the founder of
the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,
and Chelsea V. Clinton’s father.
Note: Chelsea
V. Clinton is William J. Clinton’s
daughter, a board member for the Clinton Global Initiative,
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank),
and the vice chair for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Gro
Harlem Brundtland is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative,
and a director at the Better World Fund.
Better
World Fund was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank),
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and Jim Yong Kim
was a guest at his 2013 wedding.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Human Rights First,
the New America Foundation, and the Climate Reality Project.
A.W. Clausen
was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and the president of the World Bank.
Jim Yong
Kim is the president of the World Bank, was
a director, HIV-AIDS department for the World Health Organization
(WHO), and a guest at George Soros’s 2013
wedding.
Harold H. Koh
was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a director at Human Rights First,
the State Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and his brother is Howard K.
Koh.
Howard K.
Koh is Harold H. Koh’s brother, the assistant
secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services for the Barack Obama
administration, and was a professor & associate dean for the Harvard School of Public Health.
Atul A.
Gawande was a senior adviser for the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, is a
director at the New America Foundation, and an
associate professor at the Harvard School of Public
Health.
Thomas P.
Monath is an adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public
Health, and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers.
Albert A.
Gore Jr. is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers, a member of the Clinton Global Initiative,
and the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
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