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In a new discussion paper for Incentives for Global Health, Rudolf Van Puymbroeck outlines a process designed to lead to the creation of the Health Impact Fund and the making of initial contributions and longer-term commitments for its start-up and operation. Rudolf Van Puymbroeck is an expert on HIV/AIDS, health law, and development. He is currently a Senior Scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
The Global Justice Program welcomes two new Global Justice Fellows for 2010: Daniele Botti and Hilda Yu-wen Hsiao. Botti is visiting from Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy, where he is completing a doctorate in history. Hsiao received her Ph.D. from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, in 2009; her fellowship is supported by the National Science Council.
Incentives for Global Health has added three new distinguished members to its Advisory Board. Paul Farmer is an anthropologist and physician and a co-founder of Partners in Health, a global health organization that has been active in Haiti for many years. Jim Yong Kim is the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a former director of the WHO HIV/AIDS department, and co-founder, with Paul Farmer, of Partners in Health. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is Member of the German Bundestag for Wiesbaden and a member of the Social Democratic Party and a former Federal Minster for Economic Cooperation and Development.