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

Bernhard Schwartländer

Bernhard Schwartländer is the Director of the AIDS Programme of the World Health Organization. Prior to this assignment, Dr Schwartländer was Senior Epidemiologist and Director of Strategic Information at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), where he was responsible for monitoring and surveillance of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2000 he undertook a special assignment to the World Bank to develop strategic databases and economic analyses on the cost and impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the responses to it. Dr Schwartländer is an MD and holds a PhD in epidemiology.

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."

For a Q & A on the UN Millennium Project