Lincoln Chen to Address Global Health at Penn

PHILADELPHIA –- Lincoln Chen, a physician and former chair of the board of directors of CARE, the international relief organization will speak at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing on Feb. 27 from 4 to 5 p.m. on “China-India in Global Health: Re-emergence and Comparisons.”

Chen is president of the China Medical Board Inc., which was started in 1914 by John D. Rockefeller as an independent foundation to advance health in China and Asia by strengthening medical education, research and policies.

From 1997 to 2001, Chen served as executive vice-president of the Rockefeller Foundation and from 1973 to 1987 he represented the Ford Foundation in India and Bangladesh. He serves as a board member of the Social Science Research Council, the Secretary-General’s Global Advisory Board to the United Nations Fund for International Partnership, the BRAC Foundation USA, the Public Health Foundation of India, the Carso Instituto de la Salud and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. In 2006, he was elected the first board chair of the Global Health Workforce Alliance.

The event is free and open to the public.