of seminars during the year: September: Orientation and Qualitative Research Methodology Workshop November: International Symposium on Healthcare Policy, bringing together Health Ministers from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States February: Washington Policy Briefing held on Capitol Hill with members of the United States Congress and senior government officials May: Canadian Policy Briefing on Federal and provincial health June: Final Reporting Seminar and the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting Administration and funding The programme is funded and administered by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City, with additional support for some Fellows coming from external bodies, namely: B. Braun Stiftung and Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany) Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (Canada) Careum Foundation (Switzerland) Nuffield Trust and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (UK) The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Netherlands) Notable alumni Professor David Armitage, transnational historian Professor Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, British botanist and educator Professor Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at Oxford University Professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare scholar and biographer Professor Patrick Bateson, emeritus professor of ethology at Cambridge University Professor Tim Beaglehole, chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington J.G. Farrell, novelist. <ref> Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer Professor Colin Blakemore, neurobiologist and former chief executive of the Medical Research Council Sir Ronald Bottrall, Cornish poet Professor Hugh Brogan, historian and biographer Sir George Malcolm Brown, geologist Professor Sir Roy Calne British surgeon who performed the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant Sir Graeme Catto, president of the General Medical Council Reverend Professor Sarah Coakley, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School Alistair Cooke KBE, journalist and broadcaster of Letter from America Professor Sir Steven Cowley Theoretical Physicist and Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Dr Nigel H Croft, Quality Expert, and key architect of the ISO quality management standards (ISO 9001) Professor Nicholas J. Cull, historian Professor Marcus Cunliffe, former visiting professor of American studies at Harvard University Mark Damazer, controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7 Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer, conductor and Master of the Queen's Music Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne Stuart Devlin, goldsmith and jeweller to Her Majesty the Queen Dr Jennifer Dixon, CBE, FRCP, FFPH, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation Professor John Montfort Dunn, emeritus professor