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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 …
Walking the Fine Line Between Ethical Practices and Public Health Goals
When ethical issues arise in global health, how can practitioners and communities weigh the risks and benefits to agree on a path forward? The Task
Bellagio Group Calls for Greater Collaboration to Ensure All Countries Can Respond to Disease Outbreaks
Greater collaboration is needed among stakeholders to ensure all countries have the capacity to respond effectively to disease outbreaks. That was the consensus of a
Health Information Systems Help Kenya Strengthen Management of Its Healthcare Workforce
In Kenya, the African Health Workforce Project (AHWP) has assisted the ministry of health in the development and implementation of human resource information systems (rHRIS)
Blog – Unfinished Business: Human Rights and the Future of NTD Control and Elimination
By Joseph J. Amon and David G. Addiss On a hot, humid summer evening in Haiti many years ago, a young woman sought care for
Eliminating Trachoma in Pictures – People, Partnerships and a Pill
Amhara, Ethiopia It often starts with a fly. A female Musca sorbens fly, the insect vector of trachoma, lands on a child or adult’s eye
Hilton Prize Coalition Fellow: Disease Elimination Can Bring People Together
When Ahlam Awad Mohammed was awarded the Hilton Prize Coalition Fellowship through The Task Force for Global Health (TFGH), it was at a point in
How The Task Force Helps Avoid the “2nd Disaster”
The Task Force program MedSurplus Alliance (MSA) enables organizations to ensure that medical products donated to help countries during a natural disaster are useful and
New Treatment Strategy May Accelerate Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis
A promising new treatment strategy to accelerate elimination of the disfiguring neglected tropical disease lymphatic filariasis (LF) is expected to roll out later this year
Podcast: Using Informatics to Fight Childhood Mortality
The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network aims to reduce childhood mortality around the world by identifying what exactly is killing children under
On ‘Spanish Flu’ Centennial Year, New Funding Renews Push for Universal Flu Vaccine
By Joseph Bresee The development of a universal influenza vaccine has long been a public health goal, but it has thus far proven elusive. The
The Task Force for Global Health Launches New Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics
By David Addiss On a hot August morning along a dusty road near Leogane, Haiti, a farmer approached us, holding his sick infant daughter in
War-Torn Yemen Gets First Mass Treatment for Trachoma
In Yemen’s “forgotten war,” a troop of health workers recently braved their way into remote villages carrying medicines provided by The Task Force’s International Trachoma
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.
