Richard Marlink is a medical oncologist, director of Rutgers Global Health Institute, and Rutgers’ inaugural Henry Rutgers Professor of Global Health. He is best known for his advocacy and on-the-ground solutions to improve the health of populations without access to quality care.  Previously at Harvard, Marlink helped create partnerships with Botswana: the Botswana­Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership in 1996 and the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships in 2000. He also created what would become Botswana's national AIDS training program and was principal investigator for southern Africa's first large-scale antiretroviral treatment study. Programs he has created and/or led have provided HIV/AIDS care for over a million people, both in Botswana and across sub-Saharan Africa.  At Rutgers Global Health Institute since 2016, he is leading Rutgers’ efforts to help Botswana build the country's comprehensive cancer care and prevention program, as well as efforts to support COVID-19 recovery in both Botswana and New Jersey. Marlink has served on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University and is on the Steering Committee of the White House Bioethics Committee on Cancer Diagnostics for Sub-Saharan Africa.