1. Mukesh Kapila has worked for the UK National Health Service, the British government and the United Nations.
18 Facts About Mukesh Kapila
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Mukesh Kapila witnessed genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Darfur, the latter while being the head of the United Nations in Sudan.
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Mukesh Kapila was unceremoniously fired, after becoming a whistleblower regarding UN inaction in Darfur.
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Mukesh Kapila currently works as a professor of global health and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, and is a Special Representative of the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity.
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Mukesh Kapila has a degree in medicine from Oxford University and post graduate public health qualifications from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Mukesh Kapila is a British medical professional and professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester.
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Mukesh Kapila is a specialist in crisis and conflict management, humanitarian affairs, post-conflict and development, and HIV and AIDS.
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Mukesh Kapila is Special Representative for the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity.
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Mukesh Kapila was the Deputy Director of the National UK AIDS programme during the 1990s.
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Mukesh Kapila was Head of Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs unit of the British Department for International Development from 1998 to 2002.
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Mukesh Kapila was transferred out of Sudan in April 2004, only 13 months into a 24-month assignment.
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Mukesh Kapila was a Director in the Department of Health Action in Crises of the World Health Organization.
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Mukesh Kapila was an Adviser to the World Bank on climate change issues, has advised the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and the International Labour Organization.
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Mukesh Kapila was the chief executive of PHG Foundation in Cambridge, UK from September 2003 to August 2004.
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Mukesh Kapila has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the International Peace Academy and of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Co-ordination system.
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In 2022 Mukesh Kapila wrote blog posts about corruption at United Nations Office for Project Services, which lead to resignation of its leaders.
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Mukesh Kapila is a Senior Member of Hughes Hall College, Cambridge University, UK.
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Mukesh Kapila is an Associate Fellow at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, The University of Manchester, UK.