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Clarence Pearson is former Senior Advisor to the World Health Organization Office at the United Nations. He was Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Health Education, the outcome of a Presidential Commission. Mr. Pearson also served as Vice President of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and Vice President and Director of Health and Safety Education for Metropolitan Life. He researched and prepared a comprehensive feasibility study establishing the MetLife Foundation, which has encouraged innovative funding in health, education, and human services.

Mr. Pearson was a loaned executive for a two-year White House assignment as Associate Director of a US Presidential Health Commission; a Consultant-in-Residence in Moscow for the US Department of State, directing a management training program, New Leaders of Russia; and public health consultant in the former Yugoslavia and in Central America for US government agencies and NGOs.

Among his numerous volunteer activities and board service, Mr. Pearson is a member of the AARP Board of Directors and the AARP Foundation Board of Directors, served as a member of the advisory panel of the International Executive Service Corps, and served on the Board of Overseers of the Dartmouth Medical School and the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth. He is a member of the management board of the New York Academy of Medicine School Health Project and the Advertising Council Public Policy Board of Advisors. For President Eisenhower’s People to People Ambassador program, he led a delegation to study public health and medical care in the People’s Republic of China.

Mr. Pearson formerly served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Health Insurance Association of America, the Board of Governors of the American Public Health Association, the Board of the American Association for World Health, and the Board of Directors of the National Council on International Health.

Mr. Pearson conceived and edits a series of books on global health for Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons. Along with C. Everett Koop, he is coeditor of the first book, Critical Issues in Global Health, a collection of essays written by 75 international health experts from government, business, and the social sector. He was also executive editor of the second book in the series, Global Health Leadership and Management, and the third, Global Health and Global Aging to be published in 2007.

Mr. Pearson’s awards include the International Health Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Public Health Association; the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Education from Columbia University. He is a former adjunct professor of education at Columbia University and former adjunct professor of community health at Rutgers University School of Medicine. He has a Master of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina. At UNC, Chapel Hill, he established the Scott and June Pearson Fund for Patient Advocacy to improve patient/healthcare provider communication and outcomes; it has generated a series of conferences, a curriculum, and a text book.

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