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HSPH Professor Dr. Richard A. Cash, wins 2011 Fries Award for Oral Rehydration Therapy

On November 8, 2011, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Richard A. Cash, MD, of the Global Health and Population Department at Harvard School of Public Health, was presented with the 2011 James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation Prize for Improving Health, for his leadership in the development and dissemination of Oral Rehydration Therapy as a practical treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases that has saved the lives of at least 60 million children worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Cash

http://www.friesfoundation.org/prizerecip.html