11 Facts About Ophelia Dahl

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Ophelia Magdalena Dahl was born on 12 May 1964 and is a British-American social justice and health care advocate.

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In 1983, Ophelia Dahl first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen-year-old volunteer in Haiti.

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Ophelia Dahl has served as Executive Director of PIH from 2001 to 2005, and now chairs the Board of Directors, where the organisation continues to build health care systems and raise standards in global health in remote areas of the world.

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Under the leadership of Ophelia Dahl, PIH is strengthening the public health system for over 800,000 people in Rwanda.

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Ophelia Dahl has been selected by Social Capital Inc as a 2011 SCI Idealist Award recipient, to be given on 30 March 2011.

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In 2013, Ophelia Dahl was a distinguished speaker at the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs.

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In 2019, Ophelia Dahl was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Laws by Williams College.

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Ophelia Dahl was born on May 12,1964, at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Ophelia Dahl is the second-youngest child of actress Patricia Neal and author Roald Ophelia Dahl.

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Ophelia Dahl contributed to the 2003 book The Roald Ophelia Dahl Treasury, a collection of her father's stories, memoirs, letters and poetry, and is currently writing a memoir of her father.

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In 1994, Ophelia Dahl graduated from Wellesley College as a Davis Scholar and delivered Wellesley's 2006 commencement address.