Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: Reforming Primary Health Care

Friday, March 25, 2022
Speaker
Muhammad Pate

Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Presider
Tom Frieden

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Global Health Program

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