Larry Brilliant is the Executive Director of Google.org. Brilliant is an M.D. and M.P.H., board-certified in preventive medicine and public health. He is a founder and director of The Seva Foundation, which works in dozens of countries around the world, primarily to eliminate preventable and curable blindness. He also serves as a member of strategic advisory committees for the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health, Omidyar Network, and Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) Venture Capital. In addition to his medical career, Brilliant co-founded The Well, a pioneering virtual community, with Stewart Brand in 1985. Brilliant lived in India for more than a decade and worked as a United Nations medical officer where he played a key role in the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program and has recently worked for the WHO polio eradication effort as well. In February 2006 he received the Sapling Foundation's TED Prize.
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