Speaker a builder of Rwanda clinics

The director of the Access Project, Rwanda Works and the Millennium Villages Project in Rwanda will speak Thursday at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

Josh Ruxin is an assistant clinical professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the founder of Health Builders, which improves management systems in 86 health centers across Rwanda and has constructed 5 health facilities serving 150,000 people. Ruxin has extensive experience operating at the intersection of public health, business and international development. He has led projects in several developing countries and was an adviser to government and private sector leaders on business strategy and economic development. Ruxin was a Truman Scholar at Yale University, where he received his undergraduate degree, and a Marshall Scholar at the University of London. He is based in Kigali, Rwanda.

A book signing will follow the 6 p.m. lecture. Seats for the Sturgis Hall event can be reserved by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool. uasys.edu or calling (501) 6835239.