Clintons to get public health awards from Harvard

Clintons to get public health awards from Harvard

AP | Oct 24, 2013, 05.06 PM IST

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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.