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George Washington University Announces Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2019) – The George Washington University (GW) today announced the renaming of the GW Health Workforce Institute to the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. The action was taken to honor Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, a professor of health policy and management…
Author: The George Washington University
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LSE Announces Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies
The London School of Economics and Political Science is seeking an outstanding scholar and leader for the newly created Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies, whose holder will serve as Director of the International Inequalities Institute. Applications for the post are open now, and close on 18 May…
Author: London School of Economics and Political Science
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GW Health Workforce Institute Announces 2019 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
The George Washington University (GW) Health Workforce Institute, based at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH), announces the 2019 fellows of the year-long Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program. The program honors health sector professionals with a commitment to health equity and…
Author: The George Washington University
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Four Lessons on Connecting Leaders of Social Change
By Kavitha Mediratta Kavitha Mediratta is the founding executive director of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity (@AfreGlobal) and formerly chief strategy advisor at The Atlantic Philanthropies. A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit with a gender justice activist in a…
Author: Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Chuck Feeney's Legacy Lives on as Philanthropic Fund Winds Down
By Ailish O’Horaand Programme leaders from Trinity College Dublin met their benefactor – philanthropist and former billionaire Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney – at the Global Brain Health Institute conference in San Francisco last week. They were among 70 programme leaders who gathered together from across the…
Author: Irish Independent
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Pursuing Profits in Elder Care Puts Us All at Risk
By Beverley Skeggs Professor Skeggs Professor Beverley Skeggs directs the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Program at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science I was upset and angry about my mother’s death. But I became…
Author: Inequality.org
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Atlantic Celebrates the Life and Music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
In this 2011 video, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin and students at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance reflect on the Academy, music and their relationship with Atlantic’s founder Chuck Feeney. We share this video in celebration of the life of Irish composer, musician and…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Atlantic Congratulates Immunotherapy Researcher Dr. James P. Allison, 2018 Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Photo: Cancer Research Institute The Atlantic Philanthropies and Founder Chuck Feeney congratulate James P. Allison, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Scientific Advisory Council, for winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Allison was chosen for this year’s Nobel Prize,…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Jody's Stripping Away Stereotypes to Reveal Indigenous Pride
By Jody Barney I am a Birri-Gubba/Urangan woman from southeast Queensland. I am Aboriginal, I am deaf, I am gay and currently I am living in rural Victoria. I’m not yet 50 but I have been doing my work for exactly 30 years. As a…
Author: Sunshine Coast Daily
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Dominic Campbell: Inspired to Celebrate Aging
By Julie Pfitzinger Dominic Campbell, a 2018 Influencer in Aging, is the co-founder of Creative Aging International and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity and Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Initiative. From 2006-2013, he was the director of the Bealtaine Festival in Ireland, an annual national event which celebrates aging. Next…
Author: Next Avenue
