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The U.S. Commitment to Global Health

By clock on December 18, 2008.

Listen here to the The December 16, 2008 David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture given by Dr.Harold Varmus:

Harold Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, is President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Varmus chairs the Scientific Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health program and leads the Advisory Committee for the Global Health Division. He was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, and is a co-founder of the Public Library of Science, a leading publisher of open access journals. In addition, he serves as co-chair of the Institute of Medicine's committee on The U.S. Commitment to Global Health. The committee will issue its interim report on the day preceding the lecture.

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