Larry Brilliant Philanthropy

Dr. Lawrence Brilliant is an American technologist, physician, epidemiologist, author and philanthropist. Larry Brilliant also served as the former director of Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google. As a technology patent holder, Larry Brilliant served as the CEO of two pubic companies, as well as for a few other venture backed start ups.

Aside from his Google endeavors, Larry Brilliant was also part of the successful smallpox eradication program of the World Health Organization. He participated from 1973 all the way up to 1976. After working with the World Health Organization, he returned to the US to work as an international health professor at the University of Michigan.

While he was teaching international health to students, Larry Brilliant started to establish more than a few business and charitable ventures. Eventually, in 2005, he was appointed to supervise eBay’s Skoll Urgent Threats Fund.

Aside from working for eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll, Larry Brilliant also spent one half of 2005 volunteering for the World Health Organization. He participated in WHO’s campaign to eradicate polio. That same year, he spent a significant part of his time helping out numerous victims of the tsunami in Sri Lanka.

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