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COP28: Task Force Expert Q&A on Climate Change and Health
Clinical Drug Trials Offer Hope of Relief to Patients with Stigmatizing Lymphedema
For people with disfiguring lymphedema, the hope that a drug may help reduce inflammation and swelling — potentially returning to them a life of dignity
Celebrating Women in Global Health
Professor Suma TK tells us what it is like being a woman in public health. Dr. Upendo Mwingira tells us what it is like
The Rising Need for Digital Public Health Surveillance
By Vivian Singletary As the Digital Revolution continues to unfold, public health faces fresh challenges related to data and technology. Historically, public health has relied
Q&A with The Task Force Board’s Newest Member: Attorney and Author Kent Alexander
The latest member to join The Task Force for Global Health’s Board, Kent Alexander, has held many distinguished roles over the course of his 30-plus-year
The Task Force Helps Bangladesh Roll Out Plan to Eliminate Intestinal Worm Infections
Deworming efforts in Bangladesh are about to receive a significant boost as the country reshapes its national soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) control program with support from
Digital Bridge Breaks New Ground in 2019, Launches in Two Sites
Approach Could Prove Revolutionary for U.S. Public Health In what could be a transformative step for public health in the United States, Houston and Utah
Ambitious Roadmap Outlines How Countries Can Better Respond to Disease Outbreaks
The Task Force for Global Health and its global partners have crafted a far-reaching, seven-step action framework to modernize, strengthen, and expand global Field Epidemiology
CHAMPS Data Highlights Causes of Newborn and Child Deaths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
For the first time, public health officials and researchers around the globe will have access to accurate and timely data about the causes of death
A Leprosy Advocate, Who Was Once a Patient, Talks About Stigma, Empowerment, and Treatment
In 2010, Mathias Duck was working at a hospital in his native Paraguay when he began to feel tingling in two fingers of his right
The Task Force Helps Bangladesh Roll Out Plan to Eliminate Intestinal Worm Infections
The Task Force for Global Health is assisting Bangladesh in reshaping its soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) program so that the country can eliminate intestinal worm infections
What Makes Us Optimistic for 2019
At The Task Force, we are consummate optimists about global health. So we thought it only fitting that we end 2018 by asking a few
New $29.9M Funding Boosts Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
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
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.
