Ray Chambers was appointed today by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as the Special Envoy for Financing of the Health Related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Chambers is the first person to hold the newly created position.
MDGs were set by the UN in 2000 and reflect that body's effort to combat disease, hunger, poverty, and child mortality; promote gender equality; and improve maternal health, among other objectives. All 193 UN members have agreed to attempt to achieve the eight goals by 2015.
Chambers, a philanthropist who co-founded the charity Malaria No More, and who is co-chair of the Board of Directors of GBCHealth, has been the UN's Special Envoy for Malaria since 2008 (a role that the Secretary General has concurrently renewed for Chambers). In that time period, Chambers oversaw an effort that raised more than $4 billion to combat malaria, and distributed more than 400 million mosquito nets.
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