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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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...