Science, Environment and Development Group

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Thursday, 26 February 2004
Health Systems for Development
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Health Policy Forum Fellow, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and former Director General of the World Health Organization
11:45 am - 2:00 pm, Perkins Room (E-415), 4th Floor, Eliot Building, KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served

Biography:

Gro Harlem Brundtland is the former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is currently a Health Policy Forum Fellow at the Kennedy School's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. Brundtland served as director general of WHO from 1998 to 2003 after serving as the first woman prime minister of Norway for more than 10 years. Brundtland, who has also served as environmental minister and as a member of parliament from Oslo, received her M.D. from Oslo University and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1965. She was recognized in 2003 by Scientific American as their policy leader of the year for coordinating a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of SARS. A former member of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, she now serves on the UN Secretary General's panel on "Threats, Challenges, and Responses."