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Photo caption: left to right - Prof. Rivka Carmi, president of Ben-Gurion University confers honorary degree on Foundation President Harvey Fineberg along with BGU Rector Zvi HaCohen. Credit: Dani Machlis
This week, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) awarded foundation president Harvey Fineberg with an honorary doctoral degree at its 46th Board of Governors Meeting in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Harvey received this award for his hard work and vision in the fields of health policy and medical decision-making.
See the full announcement below:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Confers Honorary Doctoral Degree on Global Healthcare Visionary Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.
SAN FRANCISCO…June 7, 2016 -- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) awarded global healthcare visionary Harvey V. Fineberg; M.D., Ph.D., an honorary doctoral degree today at its 46th Board of Governors Meeting in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Dr. Fineberg has devoted most of his distinguished academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making. His past research focused on the process of policy development and implementation; assessment of medical technology; evaluation and use of vaccines; and dissemination of medical innovations. Fineberg examined, among other subjects, the controversial federal immunization program against swine flu, the adverse effects of pertussis and rubella vaccines, the cost-effectiveness of cardiac care, and the reform of medical education.
Fineberg is the president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a U.S. organization that seeks to develop outcome-based projects that will improve the quality of life for future generations.
He held the 2014-2015 presidential chair as visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to that, he served as president of the Institute of Medicine from 2002 to 2014 and as provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, following 13 years as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He worked as a practicing physician at two Boston-area health centers from 1974 to 1984.
At the ceremony, BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi conferred upon him the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa "as a pre-eminent visionary and scientist, dedicated to advancing public health worldwide and whose studies of medical decision-making and health policy have made a lasting global impact. He has demonstrated a profound commitment to human rights and made contributions to the most noble cause of preventing diseases and improving the quality of life for people around the world."
Upon receiving the degree, Fineberg said that "It is a special privilege to receive this degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which played such a pioneering role in community medicine and population health.”
Fineberg chairs the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and serves on the boards of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the China Medical Board. He helped found and served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making and served as a consultant to the World Health Organization.
Fineberg is co-author of the books Clinical Decision Analysis, Innovators in Physician Education, and The Epidemic That Never Was, an analysis of the controversial federal immunization program against swine flu in 1976. He has co-edited several books on such diverse topics as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, understanding risk in society, and global health. He has also authored numerous articles published in professional journals.
Fineberg is the recipient of several honorary degrees: the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health, the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research and the Harvard Medal, awarded by the alumni association of the University.
He received a Ph.D. in government from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1980, a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government in 1972, an M.D. in 1971 from Harvard Medical School, and a B.A from Harvard College in 1967.
Dr. Fineberg resides in San Francisco.
About American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) plays a vital role in sustaining David Ben-Gurion's vision, creating a world-class institution of education and research in the Israeli desert, nurturing the Negev community and sharing the University's expertise locally and around the globe. With some 20,000 students on campuses in Beer-Sheva, Sede Boqer and Eilat in Israel’s southern desert, BGU is a university with a conscience, where the highest academic standards are integrated with community involvement, committed to sustainable development of the Negev. For more information, call (415) 927-2119, e-mail northwest@aabgu.org or visit www.aabgu.org.
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