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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to Sarah Massin-Short and Kirkpatrick Tans for their help on the manuscript and to Dr. Claudia Arrigg for unending encouragement and support.
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Dr. Howard K. Koh was the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, and Director, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Dr. Howard Koh, former Director of the Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, is currently the Assistant Secretary for Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This article was written prior to Dr. Koh's appointment as the Assistant Secretary for Health and does not necessarily represent the views of HHS or the United States.
This article is based, in part, on a talk delivered by Dr. Koh upon receiving the Harold Freeman Lectureship Award at the Intercultural Cancer Council's 11th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer in Washington DC in April 2008. Parts of the article are also drawn from a previous article “Public Health Leadership in the 21st Century” by Koh and McCormack, published in a collection of working papers by Harvard University Press in 2006.