I was, for several years, on the board of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that has identified human rights problems in countries around the world. The organization was very much involved in the problems in Bosnia and Serbia. It is now heavily involved in Darfur and seeks to call attention to the problems there and to help people to the extent that the organization can by calling attention to the difficulties.

Don Berwick, whom I mentioned in conjunction with his work at the School of Public Health, established a non-profit organization called the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the early 90s, an organization that has made quality issues its primary concern and has, using Don's genius for identifying people who have addressed a given problem in the realm of medical care, and have succeeded in solving it or ameliorating it effectively, of taking that finding, or those findings, and generalizing them to other institutions that are receptive to them. As a result - and he's done that not only in the United States, but in the UK and throughout Europe - it's been an extremely successful enterprise. I mentioned earlier the campaign to save 100,000 lives in this country and Don has really encouraged that kind of activity elsewhere.

Recently Don has become involved, but has been come interested, well, he's always been interested in Third World problems, but recently he's become involved in the AIDS problem in South Africa, and has done a great deal of similar work, that is, identifying small groups that are addressing the problem well and helping disseminate the approach in question to other areas. I served on Don's board for whatever the term limit was for that. I had two terms, I think, of five years each and it was a particularly rewarding activity.