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Harvard Medical School Office of Public Affairs
KOFI ANNAN AND ALICE WATERS TO RECEIVE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZEN AWARD
BOSTON, Mass. (Dec. 10, 2007)—The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School announces that Kofi Annan and Alice Waters will be their 2008 Global Environmental Citizen Award recipients. The Center presents the award each year to individuals that have demonstrated outstanding achievement in furthering our understanding or raising awareness about the importance of the global environment. Past winners include E.O. Wilson, Harrison Ford, Jane Goodall, Bill Moyers, Al Gore, and HRH Prince Charles.
During his career as Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan provided leadership for a number of initiatives recognizing that protection of the environment is fundamental to international development, including the ground-breaking Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He is the co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Annan is now Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, a partnership working across the African continent that aims to dramatically increase the productivity, food security and incomes of small-scale farmers while safeguarding the environment. Mr. Annan also serves as the President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, which brokers partnerships to tackle the humanitarian impact of climate change, such as greater investment in adaptation to protect the vulnerable communities from environmental stress.
Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, California, is one of America’s most influential chefs, as well as a pioneering advocate for sustainable agriculture and local, seasonal foods. In 1996, she founded the Chez Panisse Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports educational programs that use food traditions to nurture, educate, and empower youth. The Foundation’s primary initiative is The Edible Schoolyard, an organic garden and kitchen classroom at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California, where students participate in all aspects of tending the land, harvesting their crops, and preparing and sharing fresh food.
The recipients will be presented with the Global Environmental Citizen Awards during a gala celebration and fundraiser on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 in New York City. The 2008 Corporate Council Award Recipient (to be announced) will also be honored during this event.
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David Cameron
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The mission of the Center For Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School is to help people understand that our health, and that of our children, depends on the health of the environment, and that we must do everything we can to protect it. To fulfill this mission, the Center carries out a number of programs addressing climate change, the loss of biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, and the oceans for a range of audiences including the medical community, policy-makers, business leaders, the media and the general public.
Harvard Medical School has more than 7,500 full-time faculty working in 11 academic departments located at the School's Boston campus or in one of 47 hospital-based clinical departments at 17 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes. Those affiliates include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Forsyth Institute, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Joslin Diabetes Center, Judge Baker Children's Center, Immune Disease Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and VA Boston Healthcare System.