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The University of Washington (UW) is seeking to lure Christopher J.L. Murray ’83—the current director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies—to its Seattle campus, where he would lead a new global...
Murray had previously planned to lead a similar institute at Harvard that would have been funded by a $115 million donation from Lawrence J. Ellison, the CEO of Oracle Corporation. But Ellison backed out on his pledge last summer due to what he said was his lack of faith in...
Murray is currently seeking funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the Seattle institute, according to a Feb. 7 proposal by the deans of the UW School of Medicine and the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Paul G. Ramsey ’71—the dean of the UW School of Medicine and an alumnus of both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School—said Murray’s extensive experience in global health makes him the ideal head of the planned institute.
If negotiations go through, Ramsey anticipates that the Health Metrics Institute could push UW, whose Department of Global Health was established only a year ago, into world prominence in the field.