Joerg Reinhardt, chairman of the Novartis Board of Directors, has become chair of the Novartis Foundation, a philanthropic organisation that supports healthcare interventions in the developing world. Concurrently, Rebecca Weintraub, Rainer Boehm and Peter Piot joined the foundation board. Dr Weintraub is an assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School; Professor Piot is director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Mr Boehm is chief commercial and medical affairs officer at Novartis Pharma AG.
Novartis announced the appointments on 27 July 2015.
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