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Engaging Youth: Georgia Tech Students Use New Technology to Detect Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Tanzania
By Andi Kezh, intern The World Health Organization estimates that about 25% of the world’s population is infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STH), a group of …

Task Force at 76th World Health Assembly
The Task Force for Global Health focused on two key global health issues at the 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) hosted by the World Health

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

Task Force Partners with The Global Fund to Build Stronger Disease Surveillance Systems
Meeting with the Director General of Ghana Health Service. Photo courtesy of Yannick Kamga By Andi Kezh, Intern Early detection of outbreaks is a critical

Celebrating International Women’s Day: Three Generations of Women in Public Health
By Andi Kezh, intern On March 8, the world celebrated International Women’s Day, with this year’s theme of “embracing equity.” WHO estimates that women make

Q&A with Task Force Director of Human Resources Slavomira “Cici” Roberts
By Andi Kezh and Sumon Ray As the Director of Human Resources (HR) at The Task Force, Slavomira “Cici” Roberts MBA, SHRM-CP, is constantly looking

Q&A with Task Force Board Member Geeta Manek
A second-generation Kenyan businesswoman, Geeta Manek is a real estate developer, Rotarian, and Task Force Board Member who works to make the world a better

Blog: Creating Tools for Trust
Written by Noah Louis-Ferdinand Hesitancy towards public health is now something everyone has to care about. Last month, viral myths about COVID vaccines continued to

Public Health Workforce Ensures Rapid Pandemic Response at Major Central American Port
Photo credit: Gabriella Corrigan At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, no one quite knew how the unprecedented global health emergency would affect people’s lives,

Q&A with The Task Force Board’s Newest Member: Dr. Stephen Keith
Dr. Stephen Keith, senior medical director of Syneos Health, a global clinical research organization and member of The Task Force’s Board of Directors. The Task

New Board Chair Kent Alexander on NTDs, Kenya visit, and what’s next for The Task Force
New Board Chair Kent Alexander on NTDs, Kenya visit, and what’s next for The Task Force With a passion for community service coupled with legal

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
Header photo caption: A drug distributor travels long distances to a remote village in Cameroon to get medicines for onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis to marginalized societies most in need.