March 15, 2021
The program launches the new Milstein State of Democracy Addresses and will include questions from undergraduate students and an introduction by Bob Harrison ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University and CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Bill Clinton
Clinton and Israel will delve into the challenges faced by democracies today and what can be done to strengthen America’s democratic norms for future generations. Israel is the inaugural director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, a professor of practice in government in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a former Democratic congressman from New York.
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President Clinton to speak on future of U.S. democracy
The program launches the new Milstein State of Democracy Addresses and will include questions from undergraduate students and an introduction by Bob Harrison ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University and CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Bill Clinton
Clinton and Israel will delve into the challenges faced by democracies today and what can be done to strengthen America’s democratic norms for future generations. Israel is the inaugural director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, a professor of practice in government in the College of Arts and Sciences, and a former Democratic congressman from New York.
A couple of years ago, dental students Omar Harmouche and Alia Osseiran set out to develop a way to teach children in Lebanon, a country where they each have family ties, about oral hygiene and other healthy habits. Since then, the Middle Eastern country has faced political unrest, a deadly explosion at the port of Beirut, and, like the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic. All of which might serve to derail a long-distance public-health effort.
Yet Box for Health, the nonprofit company launched by Harmouche, D21, MG21 (MPH), and Osseiran, D22, has already reached more than 4,200 Lebanese youngsters four times their goal with original oral-health curricula and sustainable dental products. They have partnered with a half-dozen NGOs, received mentorship from the Clinton Global Initiative University and Tufts Venture Accelerator, set up a Shopify store to generate funding, and nurtured a devoted cadre of interns and volunteers.