Dr.Paul Farmer MD, Ph.D

January 16, 2013 | Comments Off on Dr.Paul Farmer MD, Ph.D

Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University; Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those […]

Francis Collins MD.,Ph.D

January 15, 2013 | Comments Off on Francis Collins MD.,Ph.D

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. is the former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). On August 17, 2009 he was sworn in as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Collins led the successful effort to complete Human Genome Project (HGP), a complex multidisciplinary scientific enterprise directed at mapping and sequencing all […]

Harold Varmus, MD

January 10, 2013 | Comments Off on Harold Varmus, MD

Harold Varmus, M.D., co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, was nominated by President Obama as Director of the National Cancer Institute on May 17, 2010. He began his tenure as NCI Director on July 12, 2010. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering […]

(source:APHA website))Dr. Adewale Troutman identifies himself through his commitment to social justice, human rights, community activism, health equity and national and global health.  His life’s work has been a testimony to this fact.  Dr. Troutman has over 40 years of dedication through action to the principles of universal freedoms and the elimination of racism, injustice and oppression.  His […]

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