Harvard receives US$350m from HK developers
Add BT as a preferred source[BOSTON] Harvard University received a record donation of US$350 million for its public health school from the family foundation of real estate developers Gerald and Ronnie Chan of Hong Kong-based Hang Lung Group.
The gift from the Chan brothers' Morningside Foundation is focused on addressing pandemics, humanitarian crises, failing health systems and social and environmental threats to health, said Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. The school will be renamed the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in honour of the Chans' late father.
The public health school will be the second at Harvard, along with the John F Kennedy School of Government, to be named for an individual. The Chan family's donation is a "transformational" gift that will provide resources for researchers and students to address complex threats from around the world, Mr Frenk said.
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