Although Sachs said the report was “well-received,” he said its finding that rich nations would need to significantly increase funding for health improvements in poorer countries had not been met with “adequate” response.

Sachs, who has recently been spending time in Washington, D.C. to convince American government officials to increase international aid, said he would spend about one day a week at U.N. headquarters in New York City. He will spend the remainder of his time doing research in Cambridge and traveling to Africa, India and China. He said Harvard students and faculty would likely help with his research.

Sachs organized over one hundred Harvard professors last spring in issuing a statement asking developed nations to give $1.1 billion to fight AIDS in Africa.

Last weekend, the CID joined with the UNDP and other organizations in launching the Global Digital Opportunity Initiative, a two-year effort to send information technology (IT) consultants and computer equipment to developing nations such as Mozambique.

Sachs said the project, which will analyze how IT is being used in developing nations, could lead to improvements in education and access to government documents and records.

—Staff writer Elisabeth S. Theodore can be reached at theodore@fas.harvard.edu