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This event is co-sponsored by the Mid-career Women’s Leadership Forum, Global Health PIC & Women and Public Policy Program. Food and drinks will be served.

RSVP before November 28 to anuradha_desai@ksg07.harvard.edu

Panellists’ Bios
Molly Kinder is currently a student in the MPA/ID class of 2008. Previously, Molly worked for the World Bank as a junior task manager for an earthquake recovery aid package in Pakistan, and in India conducting field research for a research project about rural poverty. Molly is the co-author of Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health , a book documenting successful large scale health programs in developing countries that was published by the Center for Global Development, an international development think tank in Washington, DC. She has also worked as a consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and started her career as an intern with Oxfam’s policy office. Molly has conducted research and volunteered in Chile, Kenya, Mexico and India. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame.

Yue Man originated from Hong Kong but moved to England as a child. She gained her undergraduate degree at Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 2000. Yue Man worked for 3 years as a strategy consultant with Monitor Group, an international management consulting firm, in London and Johannesburg. She worked in a variety of industries and countries in corporate, organizational, financial, marketing strategies and scenario planning before specializing in the public sector. Her last project before joining Mindset was a national HIV and AIDS prevention strategy for the Botswana Government innovative private sector marketing techniques.

For the last 3 years she has lived in South Africa as a Director of Mindset Network, a local non-profit organisation delivering multimedia education via a network of satellite channels. She started and ran Mindset’s Health Channel, a public-private partnership between Mindset, the South African Department of Health and the corporate sector. The programme delivered daily health education to health professionals and patients in clinics/hospitals. Its initial focus was on education and professional training on the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS and TB. The programme successfully expanded into 210 public hospitals and clinics reaching millions of patients and thousands of nurses, of which 80% are female. The Health Channel won a national public service award in recognition for the innovative partnership model in service delivery and use of commercial technologies for public benefit.

Yue Man is now in her first year of the Master of Public Administration in International Development program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Ruth Mufute worked for Africare an International Non Governmental Organisation dedicated to improving lives in Africa for the past 14 years. She was the country director for Africare in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia and has a lot of experience in development work in Africa. She has implemented several HIV/AIDS programs in these countries. She has been personally affected by the disease and lost close relatives. Ruth is here at Kennedy School as a mid career MPA student under the Mason Fellows Program.