Doctors of the World
Doctors of the World (DOW) "promotes global health through the advancement of human rights, improving the underlying conditions necessary to fulfill the right to health at the community and policy levels, and increasing awareness about the negative health consequences of human rights violations...
"DOW is currently active in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the Americas, including a major human rights program in the United States. DOW has worked in over 30 countries and communities where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties, and has mobilized the health sector - in the United States and internationally - to promote and protect these rights." [1]
In 2006 they received $1,946,615 from the US Government. (Total 2006 income was $5,815,734.) [2]
- Executive Director - Thomas J. Dougherty, MPH
Contents
Directors
Accessed December 2007: [3]
- Victoria L. Sharp - President - Director, Center for Comprehensive Care, St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital
- Steven J. Berger - Chair - Partner, Richmond Park Partners
- Edward S. Davis - Secretary - Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Terry J. Blumer - Partner, Jupiter Partners
- Tom Colicchio - Chef / Owner, Craft Restaurants
- Gary L. Damkoehler - President, Damkoehler Enterprises
- Jack A. DeHovitz - Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, State University of New York- Health Science Center
- Timothy P. Flanigan - Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease, Rhode Island and The Miriam Hospitals and Brown University
- Charles P. Floe - Managing Director, HSBC
- Arthur Fried - President, Healthcare Media Group, Inc
- Neal D. Goldman - Goode Partners LLC
- Margaret Hamburg - Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Mitchell A. Kline - Clinical Assistant Professor, Cornell University Medical College, Weill NY-Presbyterian Medical Center
- Kenneth Lerer - Kenneth Lerer Associates, LLC
- Constance Margolin - Vice President for Legal Affairs, Hospital for Special Surgery
- Howard Minkoff - Chairman, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center
- Barry G. Radick - Huron Consulting Group
- Jason W. Redlus - Managing Partner, Argyle Executive Forum
- William H. Roedy - President, MTV Networks International, Chairman, MTV Networks Europe
- Allan Rosenfield - Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- Stephen M. Sammut - Senior Fellow, Wharton Health Care Systems, University of Pennsylvania and Venture Partner, Burrill & Company
- Jack Slonaker
- Sue L. Steinberg
- Ramona Sunderwirth - Attending Physician, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
- Janet Tobias - Co-Founder and Partner, Ikana Media
Advisory Council
Accessed December 2007: [4]
- Lisa Adams - Director of Surveillance, Bureau of TB Control NYC Department of Health; former Medical Director & Acting Country Director, Doctors of the World
- Mark Connolly - Child Protection Adviser, UNICEF
- Ernest Drucker - Director, Division of Community Health and Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Hamilton Fish - President, The Nation Institute
- Paula Fujiwara - Deputy Executive Director, IUATLD (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease)
- Michael T. Isbell - Michael T. Isbell Consulting
- Miriam Lyons - Coordinator of Children's Rights Project, Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud
- Pamela M. Perry - Assistant Professor of Surgery, Emergency Medical, New Haven Hospital
- Bruce Rabb - Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
- Doug Shenson - Executive Director, SPARC
- Harri Taranto - Managing Director, Symphony Capital LLC
- Elizabeth Wagley - Fenton Communications
- Derrick Wong - Former Executive Director, Doctors of the World
Publications
Contact
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
References
- ↑ Who We Are, Doctors of the World, accessed December 18, 2007.
- ↑ Financial Summary, Doctors of the World, accessed December 18, 2007.
- ↑ Directors, Doctors of the World, accessed December 18, 2007.
- ↑ Advisory Council, Doctors of the World, accessed December 18, 2007.
