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Gates Foundation Names Novartis AG Executive To Head Global Health Program
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced that Trevor Mundel, a senior executive at the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, will join the foundation on December 1 "as president of the philanthropy's global health group, a position that can influence the health of millions of people worldwide," the Wall Street Journal reports (Guth, 9/14). "He succeeds Tadataka 'Tachi' Yamada, who left the foundation in June after five years as head of the global health program," according to the Associated Press/Washington Post (9/13).
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