Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty physician practice with offices across eastern Massachusetts and an affiliate of Atrius Health, is proud to announce that Dr. Richard Bail is the recipient of the Dean’s Community Service Award from Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
The Dean’s Community Service Award was established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding personal efforts in serving the local, national or international community. Dr. Bail received the award for his work as co-founder and president of Communities Without Borders (CWB), a non-governmental organization.
The mission of CWB is to provide educational opportunity to orphans and vulnerable children. It currently benefits more than 2,000 children living in impoverished areas of Zambia, most of whom are AIDS orphans. The strategy of CWB is to establish sustained, personal linkages between communities in the US and communities in Zambia. Currently, the children supported by CWB are passing standard examinations at a higher rate than the general public.
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From 1974 to present Dr. Bail has worked as a primary care physician at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. He is a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine and has been an adjunct professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.
In addition to his work as a clinician and an educator, Dr. Bail has served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Center for Disease Control, as a clinician for the National Health Service Corps in Baltimore, as Health Strategy Coordinator in the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization, and a consultant to UNICEF, the World Bank, USAID, UNAIDS and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Dr. Bail has also been an active member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Human Rights. Additionally, he is a co-founder of Trust through Health, a non-governmental organization dedicated to Soviet American co-operation to improve health in developing countries, and he is a founding member of the Watertown Youth Coalition.
He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, Dartmouth Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and the Center for Community Responsive Care Program in preventative medicine.
Dr. Bail is a resident of Newton, Mass.
About Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
http://www.harvardvanguard.org
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is a nonprofit multi-specialty medical group providing care to 495,000 adult and pediatric patients at more than 21 offices across eastern Massachusetts. As an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Harvard Vanguard physicians are on the staff of Boston’s academic medical centers and community hospitals. Harvard Vanguard’s 4,100 employees, including more than 630 physicians and 1,000 healthcare professionals, are committed to making it easier for patients to be and stay healthy. Harvard Vanguard practices are among the highest rated in the state for clinical quality and accept insurance from most major health plans, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA, Fallon Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Neighborhood Health Plan, Tufts Health Plan, and Tufts Health Plan Medicare Preferred. Harvard Vanguard is an affiliate of Atrius Health (http://www.atriushealth.org), an alliance of six non-profit community-based medical groups in Massachusetts.
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