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Dr Ken Bridbord and Dr King Holmes are co-recipients of the CUGH 2019 Distinguished Leadership Award

March / April 2019 | Volume 18, Number 2

Maryanne Lachat, Ken Bridbord, King Holmes and Virginia Gonzalez at CUGH 2019 awards ceremony
Photo courtesy of CUGH

The CUGH award recipients celebrated with their wives. From
left: Drs. Maryanne Lachat, Ken Bridbord, King Holmes and
Virginia Gonzalez.

Dr. Ken Bridbord and Dr. King Holmes are co-recipients of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2019 Distinguished Leadership Award, the organization’s highest honor.

As longtime director of Fogarty’s extramural programs, Bridbord created initiatives that provided research training for 6,000 scientists in low- and middle-income countries. Now retired, Bridbord is a Fogarty senior scientist emeritus.

Holmes, a Fogarty advisory board member and grantee, is professor and founding director of the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. In his more than 50 years of global health research and training, Holmes has collaborated with over 170 trainees and mentees, and has produced some 800 publications.

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