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Richard Strange

HOPE Ambassador

Richard Strange

HOPE Ambassador

Richard Strange grew up in London and graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, in 1963 with a degree in Physiology and Chemistry. He spent five years in Ghana as a schoolteacher with Voluntary Service Overseas before returning to London for a decade of professional work. In 1978, he moved to the United States to work in IT for the US Environmental Protection Agency and later joined the World Bank’s IT staff in Washington, DC, where he worked until 2012. Since the mid-1990s, Richard has participated in numerous NIH studies, including multiple phase-1 drug and vaccine trials, as well as serving as a tissue donor. He has also been a member of community advisory boards for several NIH-funded studies since 2010, including the DC Cohort, the BELIEVE study, and REACH.