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Details of the gift, which could potentially be the largest in Harvard’s history, emerged recently after Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH), spoke about the grant during a closed SPH faculty meeting...
...Murray has been negotiating with the Ellison Medical Foundation since last summer, according to professors familiar with the gift. The philanthropic foundation was established by billionaire Larry Ellison, CEO of the software giant Oracle, who met with Murray and University President Lawrence H. Summers in March...
...professor who was at the faculty meeting said Murray indicated that the foundation would donate more in the future if it was happy with research funded by this gift...
...Murray, a former official at the World Health Organization (WHO), published an article in the British Medical Journal last fall outlining the need for a global health-monitoring organization independent of the WHO and government influences...
...professor at the faculty meeting said that the Murray’s description of the goals of the global monitoring project were similar to those Murray sketched out in his journal article...