Opportunity for Collective Response
Cooperation and concerted efforts that fully address the environmental and health legacy of Agent Orange/dioxin in Vietnam require action now.
Mme. Ton Nu Thi Ninh, former co-chair of the US Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, greets Col. Tran Ngoc Tam, head of the Department of Science, Technology and Environment of the Ministry of Defense.
The foundation is supporting a variety of organizations such as the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, which brings together prominent persons from both countries who are seeking to increase awareness and resources around a humanitarian agenda. Ford grantees are launching major programs for children with disabilities; running treatment and counseling centers; reducing the danger to at-risk communities through dioxin containment and public health measures; and conducting related studies. The tasks ahead are substantial. They will require further resources and sustained effort by these organizations and others.
Learn more about the Aspen Institute's Advocacy and Exchange Program on Agent Orange Dioxin.
Learn more about U.S. Fund for UNICEF's special initiative, in partnership with the foundation, to improve healthcare and education for disabled children affected by the exposure of to Agent Orange.
Read about the Dialogue Group's progress at Danang airport, one of Vietnam's largest hot spots of dioxin contamination.
Who is the Dialogue Group
- Susan V. Berresford
- Convener
- U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- Former President
- Ford Foundation
Vietnam Members
- Ambassador Ngo Quang Xuan
- Co-chair
- U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- Vice Chair
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Vietnam National Assembly
- Former Ambassador
- Permanent Mission of S.R. of Vietnam to the UN & other International Organizations in Geneva
- Prof. Vo Quy
- Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Studies,
- Vietnam National University, Hanoi
- Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong
- Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Medical University of Ho Chi Minh City
- Director-General
- Ngoc Tam Hospital Corporation
- Do Hoang Long
- Deputy Director
- People to People Relations Department
- Party External Relations Commission
- Lt. General Phung Khac Dang
- Vice President
- Vietnam Veterans Association
U.S. Members
- Walter Isaacson
- Co-chair
- U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- President and CEO
- The Aspen Institute
- Christine Todd Whitman
- President
- Whitman Strategy Group
- William Mayer
- President and CEO
- Park Avenue Equity Partners
- Chairman Emeritus
- The Aspen Institute
- Mary Dolan-Hogrefe
- Vice President and Senior Advisor
- National Organization on Disability
- Director
- World Committee on Disability
- Dr. Vaughan Turekian
- Chief International Officer
- American Academy for the Advancement of Science
Dialogue Group Staff
- Charles R. Bailey
- Director
- Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- Ford Foundation
- Catharin Dalpino
- Director
- Advocacy & Exchange Program on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- The Aspen Institute
- James Hoppes
- Program Assistant
- Advocacy & Exchange Program on Agent Orange/ Dioxin
- The Aspen Institute
- Suzanne Shea
- Grants Administrator
- Ford Foundation