UN Millennium Project

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The Millennium Project

Contributors:

	· Task Forces
	· Secretariat Team
	· UN Experts Group

Statements of Support:

	· by Heads of State
	· by International Organizations
	· by Civil Society and Academia

Gail Cassell

Gail Cassell is currently the Vice President for Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases at Eli Lilly and Company. Prior to this, she served as the former Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Birmingham. She is also a recent past President of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Cassell's major research contribution to the field of microbiology during the recent past is the establishment of Ureaplasma urealyticum as a significant cause of chrioamnionitis and disease in premature human infants. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama.

As of Jan 1, 2007, the advisory work formerly carried out by the Millennium Project secretariat team is being continued by an MDG Support team integrated under the United Nations Development Program.

Please visit MDG Support to get the latest information.

Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
"Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."

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