The Task Force for Global Health

Spotlight on Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center Director, Patrick Lammie, PhD The Task Force for Global Health is pleased to share new leadership developments for the Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC). Patrick Lammie, PhD, former NTD-SC Chief Scientist, has been named as the program’s new director. Eric Ottesen, MD, former director of NTD-SC, will… Read More

Do global health programs – particularly short-term medical missions and medical supply donation programs – ensure that they are meeting beneficiary and community needs while not creating additional burdens in already under-resourced settings? That is a question the group of professionals, academics, and students from around the world discussed in May at the Joint Global… Read More

One of its kind initiative in state aims to better understand the diseases and treatment outcomes. When Bentley Vining was born, he was diagnosed with a rare inherited disorder that required him to be on a lifelong special diet. His mother, Courtney, submitted a claim for the medical formulas to the family’s insurance provider. They… Read More

Director of The Task Force for Global Health’s Children Without Worms (CWW), Rubina Imtiaz, MBBS, shares what she is most excited about this year for CWW and the STH Coalition for which CWW acts as the secretariat. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) continues to be one of the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the world… Read More

Press Release: Oslo, Norway; Atlanta, GA, USA, May 28, 2019 — The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Brighton Collaboration, the largest global organisation of scientific experts on vaccine safety, based in Atlanta at The Task Force for Global Health, today announced the launch of the Safety Platform for Emergency vACcines (SPEAC) Project… Read More

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For the first time, stakeholders across 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have collaborated to develop a unified framework to assess progress against these devastating and preventable illnesses, which affect more than 1.6 billion of the world’s poorest people. The framework, created by the Uniting to Combat NTDs partnership, consists of two components: an instrument called… Read More

Experts from non-profit organizations, the private sector and academia came together at a symposium hosted at The Task Force headquarters in Atlanta to discuss strides made in diagnostics to eliminate neglected tropical diseases and understand the causes of childhood mortality. Dan Fletcher, PhD, who chairs the bioengineering department at the University of California, Berkeley, delivered… Read More

Alan Hinman, MD, MPH, Consulting Advisor at The Task Force’s Center for Vaccine Equity (CVE), recently received the prestigious Dr. Charles Mérieux Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases for his work in vaccinology and immunology. The award, given annually, honors individuals whose lifetime contributions to the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases have led to… Read More

In preparation for the summer 2019 launch of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, The Task Force for Global Health invites all those working to eliminate viral hepatitis to submit photos that capture their work in action to the #HepEliminationInAction photo contest. The contest opens on April 2, 2019 and the deadline for submissions has… Read More