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07 July 2010
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Imagining a National School of Tropical Medicine and Neglected Infections of Poverty for North America

Thanks to the Gates Foundation and others there has been a surge of interest in global health issues like malaria...

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30 April 2010
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“Kids in poverty need escape velocity”

I had the opportunity last night to listen to my old friend Eric Schwarz, the founder of Citizen Schools, share...

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27 April 2010
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Polio, malaria, hunger and expensive failures of imagination

Last Sunday’s celebration of the third annual World Malaria Day was met with great optimism about the progress made i...

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21 April 2010
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Adam Nadel’s photographs bear witness to malaria’s toll

Yesterday in New York I stopped by the United Nations to see a special photographic exhibit running through May 15...

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19 April 2010
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Overcoming Failures of Imagination

This weekend’s Global Health and Innovation Conference sponsored by Unite For Sight brought 2200 participants together from the fields of...

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16 April 2010
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bearing witness in a quiet workshop in Haiti

We returned to Haiti this week, on the three month anniversary of the earthquake, to try to keep some of...

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11 April 2010
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The Urgency of Bearing Witness

Because of the many ways in which we think about bearing witness, this article in the New York Times over...

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10 March 2010
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Update From ConAgra Foods Foundation on Ending Hunger

“ConAgra Foods Foundation Nancy Pope wrote the 2010 New Mexico Plan to End Hunger to improve the state’s rating as...

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10 March 2010
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Haiti Update from Partners in Health

Partners in Health announces Call to Action, Stand With Haiti Fund to media On Friday, PIH held a conference call for national media...