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"This initiative will honor Chris’s memory by allowing WiRED’s programs to bridge gaps in medical and health education in developing communities all over the globe."
— Anthony Hodge,
WiRED Board Chair

 

 

 

"The work that Wired International is doing in this program established in Chris’s name will connect WiRED’s medical professionals with communities around the world who are eager to learn and eager to improve medical care."
— Anne Marguerite
Stevens, M.D., Ph.D.

 

 

 

Ambassador Stevens was “… one of the really talented U.S. envoys who knew the region so very well. He knew the streets, as well as the elites. He spoke the language. He understood the culture. He was one of those who got out and really knew a cross-section of whatever community he lived in.”
— Robin Wright, journalist,
National Public Radio
interview

 

 

 

WiRED’s Community Health Education Initiative
In Honor of the Late U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens
 

 

WiRED launched an initiative honoring the late Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens in the fall of 2015. This program enables WiRED to provide its entire training library, computer and display hardware and train-the-trainer programs to doctors and organizations in developing areas of the world. The objective of this effort is to deliver the highest quality health education programs to doctors and grassroots communities in the world’s lowest-resource regions.

 

Ambassador Stevens believed in community engagement and public diplomacy — a philosophy which corresponds with WiRED’s longstanding approach to programs and practices. WiRED’s initiative honors Ambassador Stevens by addressing low-income populations for which he had an abiding concern. Advancing good health through education honors the Ambassador’s memory and allows WiRED to fulfil a mission championed by its board members and volunteers.

 

WiRED has issued a request for proposals in developing countries inviting clinics, medical schools, schools of public health and local health-focused NGOs to participate in this program. We encourage all eligible organizations to examine this program and consider submitting a proposal.

 

Request for Proposal

 

 


Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens

 

Ambassador Stevens earned a B.A. in history in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1983 to 1985, he taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. In 1989, he graduated with a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and in 2010 he received an M.S. degree from the National War College in Washington, D.C.

 

Ambassador Stevens joined the United States Foreign Service in 1991. His early overseas assignments included posts in Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo and Riyadh. In Washington, D.C., he acted as Director of the Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs. He served as Ambassador to Libya until his death in 2012.