Lincoln Chen is President of China Medical Board (CMB). Having celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014, the CMB was endowed by John D. Rockefeller as an independent American foundation that aims to advance health in China and neighbouring countries of Southeast Asia in an interdependent world. CMB works by strategic philanthropy to spark innovation and strengthen partnerships in building university capacity in health policy sciences and health professional education.
In earlier decades, Dr Chen was the Taro Takemi Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Executive Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and representative of the Ford Foundation in India and Bangladesh. Dr Chen serves on many boards. He is Chair of BRAC USA, an affiliate of the world's largest NGO. Dr Chen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council of Foreign Relations. He graduated from Princeton University, Harvard Medical School, and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.