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

Robert Scherpbier

Robert Scherpbier has experience in public health as a policy maker, programme developer, implementer, manager and generalist clinician. His interests are linking health outcomes and rational systems development through priority setting, improving routine management and health management information systems.

He works on health systems in the Child and Adolescent Health and Development Department of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is the child health focal point for the Western Pacific Region. Previously, he worked at the Stop TB Department in WHO and the Ministry of Health, Ghana. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Brescia, Italy and examination board member at the Netherlands Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). He trained in medicine in The Netherlands and in public health in Belgium and the USA.

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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