Richard Cash, MD, MPH is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population and Global Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and the visiting Professor at James P. Grant School Public Health at BRAC University Dhaka and at PHFI in New Delhi.With colleagues he conducted the first clinical and community-based trials of ORT. In 2007 he was presented with the Prince Mahidol Award in Public Health given by Thaoland for his work on ORT.