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Frank Donaghue

Frank Donaghue has served as Chief Executive Officer of Physicians for Human Rights since 2007. With more than three decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, Donaghue has a distinguished track record in humanitarian service, fundraising and management.

Under Donaghue's leadership, PHR has continued to increase its impact on issues of torture, asylum, conflict, global health, and forensics, and its student program continues to thrive. Donaghue led a team of investigators to Zimbabwe in December 2008 and co-authored PHR's emergency report, Health in Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe.

For the majority of his career, he worked for the American Red Cross in a variety of capacities. He served as President and CEO of the Red Cross in Philadelphia, Vice President of both Development and Corporate Communications for the national Red Cross and as national spokesperson for both national and international disasters and conflicts, including the 1999 Izmit earthquake in Turkey and the wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Bosnia.

Also in his international work, Donaghue developed youth HIV education programs in Romania, Grenada, Ghana and Bosnia. He participated in a mass vaccination campaign in West Africa to help eliminate measles from the African continent by 2010.

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