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Thursday, 4 March 2004
Health as a Knowledge-Based and Socially-Driven Process/Product
Dr. Lincoln Chen, Director, Global Equity Initiative, Asia Center, Harvard University
11:45 am - 2:00 pm, Perkins Room (E-415), 4th Floor, Eliot Building, KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served

Biography:

Lincoln Chen is a distinguished professional in international public health and development. In 2001 Dr. Chen founded the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University after serving five years as executive vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation. Over the previous decade, Dr. Chen was the Tora Takemi Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of the university-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. From 1973 to 1987, Dr. Chen was with the Ford Foundation, first on its staff in Bangladesh and later as representative in India. In Bangladesh, Dr. Chen for several years was seconded as scientific director of the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh. Dr. Chen is the chairman of the board of directors of CARE/USA and a member of the Global Commission on Human Security. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Center for Economic and Social Rights, the Center for Sciences and the Environment, and the Synergos Institute. He graduated from Princeton University, Harvard Medical School, and the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Presentation slides:

Chen, Lincoln. "Health as a Knowledge-Based and Socially-Driven Process/Product". Presentation slides from Knowledge for Development Seminar, 4 March 2004, Center for International Development, Harvard University.

Background document:

Commission on Health Research for Development. 1990. "Executive Summary." Pp. xvii-xix in Health Research: Essential Link to Equity in Development. New York: Oxford University Press.

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