The Task Force for Global Health

When TEPHINET joined The Task Force in 2009, it consisted of only 30 field epidemiology training programs (FETPs) in the same number of countries. Today, the network has grown to 71 programs serving more than 100 countries. Dionisio Herrera, MD, PhD, has been at the helm of TEPHINET during this extraordinary period of growth in… Read More

A new $29.97 million grant will build on the successes of a collaborative research partnership hosted by The Task Force for Global Health to control and eliminate five neglected tropical diseases. The Task Force’s Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC) was awarded the five-year grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant funds… Read More

The Task Force for Global Health has launched an ambitious program to eliminate hepatitis B and C, two infectious diseases that affect more than 300 million people and kill an estimated 1.3 million people annually – a higher death toll than HIV, malaria or tuberculosis. The initiative, anchored in The Task Force’s collaborative approach, will… Read More

It’s flu season in the United States, and while flu causes more deaths and hospitalizations than any other vaccine-preventable disease in the country, most people don’t take it seriously. Last year in the US alone, an estimated 80,000 people died of the flu and its complications. Globally, according to the World Health Organization, as many… Read More

Global health luminary and The Task Force’s co-founder, Bill Foege, said public health leaders must be involved in the political process if they are to positively impact decisions made by government. “Every public health decision is based on some sort of political decision. You can’t separate them, and therefore we must understand how the political… Read More

Wonya Lucas, who recently joined The Task Force for Global Health Board of Directors, is a veteran in the world of marketing and communications. She’s made her mark on virtually every major cable television network—including TNT, CNN, the Weather Channel, and Discovery Communications. Today, she serves as president and CEO of Public Broadcasting Atlanta. Lucas… Read More

David Ross’s journey to leading the country’s second largest non-profit organization had far from a typical beginning. The CEO of The Task Force for Global Health began his professional life at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at The Johns Hopkins University. It was just when the cold war was heating up and APL was focused… Read More

On a cool October day in a village high up in the mountainous reaches of northern Pakistan, men, women, and children gathered to take a drug that can save their sight. It’s the first mass drug administration (MDA) for trachoma in a country where the bacterial eye disease is the leading infectious cause of blindness…. Read More

The Public Health Informatics Institute helps broker unprecedented agreement on a standard for exchanging critical health information in the United States. It’s a cold January morning, but the conversation is heating up in a conference room at The Task Force for Global Health where the Digital Bridge governance body has gathered. To reaffirm their commitment… Read More

Our co-founder, Dr. Bill Foege, spoke and signed his two newest books on Saturday, September 1, 2018 at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA. The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC illustrates the select stories from Dr. Foege’s years at the CDC, including his time as Director. The… Read More