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Director, Rwanda Works

June 29, 2009 Full Interview with Josh Ruxin

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    Josh Ruxin, director of Rwanda Works and a Columbia University expert on public health, suggests you check out Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke," which he calls an "amazing fictionalized history of American involvement in Southeast Asia and of war in general."

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Big Think Interview With Josh Ruxin

A conversation with the Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health, Columbia University. … Watch

June 29, 2009   |  In Health & Medicine

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User_rqjf_800fbb5fd Dr. Josh Ruxin is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Founder of Rwanda Works. Dr. Ruxin's work focuses on comprehensive approaches to fighting poverty with emphasis on scaling up national health programs and investing in Rwanda’s private sector. He is based in Rwanda where he directs several initiatives including Rwanda Works  and the Millennium Village Project.

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