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...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 health center tentatively called the “Health Metrics Institute...
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...
Murray’s only comment was that discussions with UW and the Gates Foundation are underway...
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...
...would rather resign than pretend. But what happens if you let officials take office with an asterisk in their oath? That would "come perilously close to saying [that] in their duties they will ignore the law or alter the law when it conflicts with their personal principles," UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber told the Wisconsin State Journal. "That is a fundamental breach of the duty of office...