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A Soulful Life: Warren Berggren

8/19/2015

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On Sunday, we looked at living careful, thoughtful, and soulful lives; lives like Warren Berggren.

Warren was a longtime member of FBC while living in Boston between 1972-1989.​   He​ and his wife ​championed health as human right​ ​and led serving trips ("mission trips") to Haiti with students from FBC.

We are sadden to receive the news of his death in January.

Full article:  http://bit.ly/berrgren

Excerpt:  "July 29, 2015 – The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community was saddened to learn of the death on January 30, 2015, of Warren Berggren, MPH ’63, DPH ’67, who passed away in Golden, Colorado, at age 85. Together with his wife and public health partner, the physician Gretchen Glode Berggren, SM ’66, Berggren launched groundbreaking community health programs in several countries in the developing world, including in Haiti, where they worked at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles for many years."



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