Lincoln C. Chen is president of the China Medical Board. He is the co-chair of the Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century and co-author of its landmark report, Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World. He has also served as the Harvard School of Public Health Taro Takemi Professor of International Health, director of the University-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and the founding director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative.