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Frenk emphasized the global nature of public health in a phone interview on Tuesday, saying that his top priority as dean would be to strengthen the school’s rapport with the rest of the world. Frenk, who was health minister from 2000 to 2006, was the founding director-general of Mexico's National Institute of Public Health and later served as an executive director of the World Health Organization. He is currently a senior fellow in the global health program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."In these and other leadership roles, he has emerged over...
...There were times he washed his hands of people - and times when, like so many people of great charm, he allowed himself to be charmed. Mandela initially developed a quick rapport with South African President F.W. de Klerk, which is why he later felt so betrayed when De Klerk attacked him in public...
...degree in agriculture, specializing in organic farming. When the family relocated from Manila to a farm in Bulacan province, Jonas adopted rural life wholesale. "He dressed like a farmer," says Edita. "He was just like them in his manner, so he could relate to them. He had a rapport with the people...
...team foil event. According to Cross, the best shot she has at winning a medal is in this team competition. “My three teammates and I have been training and working together very closely for the past few seasons, and we have a very good rapport,” Cross says. “Our styles are also very different, but they complement each other very well and make us hard to predict as a team, which I think gives us a good shot at a medal.” Although she believes that her best chance...
...agriculture and recreation. The FLDS hired a Dallas engineer to design a sewage plant for them, but they wouldn't allow him on the land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul sewage to the city plant. They always paid their bills - in cash. "I established rapport with two or three of them," Nikolauk says, but few members of the community were ever seen in town at the feed store or coffee shop...