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 He is the director of the Access Project for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. Ruxin is also Country Director for the Millennium Village Project in Kigali, Rwanda, where he currently lives. He focuses on comprehensive approaches to fighting poverty with emphasis on scaling up national health programs.
In 2002, Ruxin founded the Access Project, which provides technical expertise to several countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Nigeria. Since its formation the project has assembled grant requests that have yielded over $1 billion in funding. In Rwanda the project delivers private sector management skills to district-level health systems and is helping to address the needs of over 1.8 million Rwandans this year.
Ruxin received a B.A. in the History of Science and Medicine from Yale University, where he was a Truman Scholar. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia, holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University, and a PhD in History from the University of London, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He serves on the Board of FilmAid International and Orphans of Rwanda, Inc., and is a member of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group. He is also on the faculty of the Clergy Leadership Project.
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