What is the biggest challenge facing relief organizations after last years tsunamis?
We’ve done wonderful work providing relief to the people who are affected, but the real challenge is, Can we continue this level of activity and make sure the development takes place in an organized manner? We need to collaborate with the communities and the people who were affected to make sure their lives are better off then they were before. How will your background in health issues affect your leadership? Clearly, coming from a background of medicine and public health, that’ll be an area I’ll be making a special effort, such as making sure there’s close coordination between development and HIV/AIDS. One example that illustrates this is a U.S. government program that provides for the prevention, treatment, and care of HIV/AIDS people. This is President Bush’s initiative. It’ll provide medications to the people and medical treatment, but it’s not coordinated with the other programs that need to be in place. If a person doesn’t have food to eat, how do you expect him to take medicatio
