Trucks loaded with USAID humanitarian aid for Venezuela are escorted by police as they arrive at the Tienditas International Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia

Meeting Crises with Big Changes

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 13, 2023

Rajiv Shah, MD, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and USAID administrator from 2009-2015 and the author of Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens (Simon Element, 2023), talks about responding to humanitarian crises, and going for bold improvements.

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