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Frederick M. Burkle

Frederick M. Burkle, Jr is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a retired professor. He is a senior fellow and scientist at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a senior international public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.