University Professor and the Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School, Irwin Rosenberg is the 2006 recipient of the Conrad Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition, which recognizes distinguished service to the public through nutrition science. He received the award from the American Society of Clinical Nutrition in April at the 2006 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Francisco. Throughout his career, Rosenberg has participated in many national and international nutrition policy efforts and has held positions on committees for the Food and Drug Administration and the Institute of Medicine. Since joining Tufts, Rosenberg has served as dean of the Friedman School for nine years and director of the HNRCA for 15 years. Currently, Rosenberg directs the Nutrition and Neurocognition Laboratory at the HNRCA. Dr. Rosenberg’s research interests include nutrition and aging; folate nutriture; and the relationship between homocysteine, B vitamin nutriture, vascular disease and cognitive decline.

Dr. Bernard Lown is Professor of Cardiology Emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and the Founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Center and Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Lown developed the direct current defibrillator for resuscitating the arrested heart as well as the cardioverter for correcting disordered heart rhythms. In 1962, he cofounded the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and became its first president. From 1974 to 1975, he presided over the USA-China Physicians Friendship Association, and served as coordinator of collaborative studies with the USSR on cardiovascular disease on behalf of the National Heart and Lung Institute. In 1980, he cofounded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Drs. Lown and Chazov served as IPPNW’s first Co-Presidents, and in 1985, they were co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW. Dr. Lown is also the recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize (with Dr. Chazov), the George F. Kennan Award, the Ghandi Peace Prize, and the first Cardinal Medeiros Peace Award, as well as 20 honorary degrees from leading universities both in the USA and abroad. Dr. Lown is the founder and emeritus Chairman of SATELLIFE, an international non-profit organization that uses satellite and Internet technologies to serve the health communication and information needs of developing countries. Dr. Lown is the founder of ProCor, an ongoing, worldwide, e-mail- and web-based electronic conference that addresses the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in the developing world.

Anne E. Goldfeld is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Investigator in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Physician in the Division of Infectious Disease at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and President and Co-Founder of the Global and Cambodian Health Committees. Work in her laboratory has provided groundbreaking insights into the function and regulation of the innate immune system at the molecular level, in particular the transcriptional control of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) gene. Her work on the pathogenesis of HIV and M. tuberculosis infection has led to the discovery of the first gene associated with TB and regulatory T cells in infectious disease. Dr. Goldfeld’s clinical work in Cambodia has focused on developing approaches of community-based care for TB and HIV while nesting scientific studies in these delivery networks leading to new international standards of care and to fundamental medical discoveries aimed at developing new therapies. More recently, she and her colleagues have turned their attention to combating drug resistant TB and providing access to drugs in Ethiopia by spearheading the initiation of care for drug resistant TB in that country with its ministry of health. Dr. Goldfeld’s humanitarian work has focused on advocacy and bringing care to those in most need. She was at the origin of global efforts to ban landmines making the first call for an international ban on landmines in 1991 in congressional testimony. She provided some of the earliest evidence of gender-based violence against women in situations of war and torture in 1988. She served as medical coordinator at the Site II refugee camp for the American Refugee Committee’s program on the Thai-Cambodian border in 1989 and in 1994 she co-founded the Cambodian Health Committee, which has also been known as the Global Health Committee since 2008. She worked as a doctor in the Mugunga refugee camp in eastern Congo during the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, and has provided assistance or participated in missions to Albania/Kosovo, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Angola, Swaziland, Dharamsala/Tibet, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru. In addition to her scientific publications, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. She is co-author of the book Beyond Hiroshima.

Jason Clay is the senior vice president of market transformation for the World Wildlife Fund. His goal is to create global standards for producing and using raw materials, particularly in terms of carbon and water. His ideas are changing the way governments, foundations, researchers, and NGOs identify and address risks and opportunities for their work. He brings people together to improve environmentally sensitive practices in agriculture and aquaculture. He has convened industry roundtables of retailers, buyers, producers and environmentalists to reduce the key impacts of producing soy, cotton, sugarcane, salmon, shrimp, mollusks, catfish and tilapia. Prior to joining WWF in 1999, he ran a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and spent more than 25 years working with human rights and environmental organizations. Jason, in addition to authoring numerous books on subjects including World Agriculture and the Environment (2004) and Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction (2005), is Founder and Editor of Cultural Survival Quarterly, winner of UTNE reader award for best publication with circulation of less than 30,000, best publication for international news and analysis, and best coverage of international cultural issues.

Jonathan D. Moreno is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he edits the magazine, Science Progress. He is one of 13 Penn Integrates Knowledge university professors at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of medical ethics and health policy, of history and sociology of science, and of philosophy. In 2008-09 he served as a member of President Barack Obama’s transition team. Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and is a national associate of the National Research Council. He has served as a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions, including the current bioethics commission under President Obama, and has given invited testimony for both houses of Congress. He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Neuroethics Society, a faculty affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, a fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine, and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He advises various science, health, and national security agencies and serves as a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s TIGER committee on potentially disruptive novel technologies.