Applying New Science to Global Health with discussants Leonard Rubenstein and Richard Klausner at The 2007 Aspen Health Forum. Clive Crook moderates.
Aspen Institute's Health Forum hosts an event where global health experts outline the most critical global health problems, explore which among them can be solved only with new science and technology, and consider how to implement those solutions.
Bio
Clive Crook
Clive Crook is a Senior Editor of The Atlantic and Chief Washington Commentator of The Financial Times. In addition, he writes a column for National Journal and serves as chief editorial adviser to David Bradley, the chairman of Atlantic Media Group.
He was formerly on the staff of The Economist, where he was deputy editor from 1993 to 2005.
A graduate of Oxford and the London School of Economics, he has served as a consultant to The World Bank and worked as an official in the British Treasury. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Richard Klausner
Richard D. Klausner is Managing Partner of The Column Group, a venture capital fund focused on building the next generation of drug discovery and development companies. Dr. Klausner is the former Executive Director for Global Health of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that he served as Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1995 to 2001.
Dr. Klausner's research in hematology has been recognized with many awards, including the William Damashek Prize and the Outstanding Investigator Award of the American Federation of Clinical Research. He has served as an adviser to the Presidents of the National Academies for counter-terrorism and as a liaison to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Klausner is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Leonard Rubenstein
Leonard Rubenstein is President of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that mobilizes the health professions to advance human rights. He has been a leader in promoting health policy on the basis of human rights both in the United States and in the developing world. He initiated the Health Action AIDS Campaign, which brings the knowledge and voices of physicians and other health professionals, both in the United States, and in Africa, to advocacy for resources and sound policy on HIV/AIDS.
He also has been at the forefront of a broad effort to increase human resources for health in Africa. Mr. Rubenstein has conducted human rights investigations throughout the world and has published widely, from academic journals to the op-ed pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times. He has received numerous awards, including the Health Care Hero Award from the Congressional Minority Caucuses.