Panel Discussion at Cambridge in America Day, San Francisco, Grand Hyatt Union Square, March 31, 2007. Moderator, Bernard Rivers, Aidspan Founder and Director, Alumnus, Queens College. Bernard Rivers is the founder and leader of Aidspan, a US based non governmental organization whose mission is to reinforce the effectiveness of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria by serving as an independent watchdog of the Fund, and by providing services that can benefit all countries wishing to obtain and make effective use of Global Fund financing.