Patrick Slavin ’84 has accepted a senior staff position at Johns Hopkins University as the Communications Lead with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. He has also been appointed to the Board of Directors at Lusaka (Zambia) International Community School, the largest private international school in Zambia. Note his phone number in Zambia is +260962364134.

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