Timothy Grant Manchester

摘要

Tim Manchester was the kind of man who made things happen. From Tanzania to China, and in many countries in between, he used straight-talking charm and passion to drive improvements in family planning and reproductive health in a career that spanned 30 years. "No-one could move and shake it like Tim", remembers Alisa Cameron, Health Office Director at USAID Tanzania, where he had worked since 2009-"He would literally roll up his sleeves and say let's do this, let's make it happen. Tim's legacy is the impact he had on people." Born in the USA, Manchester was raised by his missionary parents in Belgium, New York, Connecticut, and Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After earning an undergraduate arts degree at Goddard College, Vermont, he returned to Zaire as a Peace Corps volunteer before joining the Peace Corps staff. Those years marked the beginning of a life-long passion for improving health care, and of an equally committed partnership with his wife Jill. By the early 1980s, they had returned briefly to the USA, where Manchester took an MSc in epidemiology atTulane University, acquiring skills that were soon called into use when he returned to Africa as part of Tulane's rural health improvement project in Niger.