By Bart Barnes<\/p>\n
Richard A. Frank, a past president of Population Services International, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization providing global health programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive heath, died April 20 at an assisted-living facility in Washington. He was 77.<\/p>\n
The cause was progressive supranuclear palsy, said his son Brian Frank.<\/p>\n
Mr. Frank spent 21 years as chief executive of Population Services International, which operates in 69 countries with a $500 million annual budget and almost 9,000 employees. He retired in 2008.<\/p>\n
Earlier he was a lawyer in private practice and for the federal government. From 1977 to 1981, he was administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n
Richard Asher Frank, who lived in Washington, was born Nov. 4, 1936, in Omaha. He graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and from Harvard Law School in 1962.<\/p>\n
He then came to Washington as a State Department lawyer. Following the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he was the State Department counsel to the Warren Commission\u2019s inquiry into the assassination.<\/p>\n
Later he was director of the Center for Law and Social Policy, a nonprofit think tank aimed at improving living conditions for low-income people and families.<\/p>\n
From 1981 to 1987, Mr. Frank was a partner in the law firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross, specializing in international law. He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University law school.<\/p>\n
His first marriage, to Jane Lakes, ended in divorce; she later married the audio industry entrepreneur Sidney Harman and became a Democratic congresswoman from California. Mr. Frank was separated from his second wife, the former Susan Coulson.<\/p>\n
Survivors include two children from his first marriage, Brian Frank and Hilary Peck of New York City; two sons from his second marriage, Alex Frank of Herndon, Va., and Nicholas Frank of San Francisco; and four grandchildren.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-4039","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}