Nov 2, 2006

Margaret “Peggy” Bentley, UNC School of Public Health Associate Dean of Global Affairs, professor of nutrition, and CPC Fellow, has been chosen to serve as an Ambassador in the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research at Research! America.

The Paul G. Rogers Society, named for the former Florida Congressman, was established this year to increase awareness of – and make the case for greater U.S. investment in – research to fight diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest nations. The society received a $1.2 million two-year grant in July 2006 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as founding support.

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