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MEDIA ADVISORY: Task Force for Global Health Experts at UN General Assembly
Photo header courtesy of UN Photo/Manuel Elías for UN News. Task Force leaders, including representatives from the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and the Partnership

PRESS RELEASE: Task Force for Global Health Launches Digital Gallery featuring Founder Dr. Bill Foege and others
May 9, 2023, Atlanta, GA – The Task Force for Global Health today launched its annual report, a digital global health gallery that goes beyond

PRESS RELEASE: Pfizer and International Trachoma Initiative Deliver One Billionth Zithromax® Dose Toward Trachoma Elimination by 2030
Photo credit: Sala Lewis/International Trachoma Initiative. NEW YORK, January 30, 2023 – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), a program of the independent nonprofit Task Force

PRESS RELEASE: CEPI expands partnership with Brighton Collaboration to support safety assessment of vaccine candidates
20 December 2022; OSLO, Norway: The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Brighton Collaboration, based at The Task Force for Global Health, today

PRESS RELEASE: Task Force for Global Health welcomes new Board Chair Kent Alexander
Kent Alexander, Chair of the Task Force for Global Health Board of Directors ATLANTA (December 15, 2022) – The Task Force for Global Health Board

Press Release: Task Force for Global Health Experts at American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference
ATLANTA (October 28, 2022) – Task Force for Global Health experts will speak at The American Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) 2022 annual

Press Release: Task Force for Global Health CEO Dr. Dave Ross Receives Metro Atlanta Chamber Heroes of Global Health Award
ATLANTA – The Metro Atlanta Chamber is presenting Task Force for Global Health President and CEO Dr. David Ross its Heroes of Global Health award

Press Release: Task Force for Global Health Welcomes New CEO Dr. Patrick O’Carroll
ATLANTA – The Task Force for Global Health announced today that its Board of Directors has chosen Patrick O’Carroll, MD, MPH as the organization’s next

Press Release: International partners call for a UN Group of Friends to support global hepatitis elimination
NEW YORK – Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination joins U.N. representatives, Ministers of Health, and leaders from over 20 nations to support efforts to reach

Press Release: Task Force for Global Health CEO Dave Ross to Retire This Year
ATLANTA – The Task Force for Global Health announced today that CEO and President David A. Ross, ScD, will be retiring this year. Dr. Ross

Press Release: CDC invests $22.8 million in Task Force program for vaccines in low- and middle-income countries, focus on COVID-19 and influenza
ATLANTA – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invested $22.8 million for the first year of a five-year agreement with The Task

Press Release: Digital Health Platform, Patientory, Partners with The Task Force
ATLANTA – Patientory Inc. is partnering with The Task Force Global Health to serve as a nonprofit donation option for Patientory clients to donate their
Our Experts

Joseph Bresee – Pandemics
Director, Respiratory Virus Prevention Programs

Robert Chen – Vaccine Safety
Director, Brighton Collaboration

Paul Emerson – Trachoma
Director, International Trachoma Initiative & Children Without Worms

Katie Gass – Operational Research
Director of Research, Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center

Carla Johnson – Supply Chain Logistics
Supply Chain Manager, International Trachoma Initiative

Patrick Lammie – Neglected Tropical Diseases
Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center

Carl Reddy – Disease Surveillance
Director, Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network

Vivian Singletary – Information Systems
Director, Public Health Informatics Institute

Yao Sodahlon – River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis
Director, Mectizan® Donation Program

John Ward – Viral Hepatitis
Director, Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination

Lori Warrens – Medical Equipment & Supplies
Director, MedSurplus Alliance