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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 …
Massive Open Online Course Brings the Latest in Trachoma Elimination to Public Health Agencies Around the World
The Task Force’s International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) is helping to bring comprehensive trachoma elimination strategies to public health professionals around the world by supporting the
Philippines Health Department Pilots Tool for Assessing Uptake of Mass Drug Administration
The Task Force is helping the Philippines Department of Health and World Health Organization determine whether lymphatic filariasis (LF) has been eliminated from remote parts
Hilton Humanitarian Prize Recognizes The Task Force for Using ‘Compassion, Collaboration, and Smart Solutions’ to Alleviate Human Suffering
The Task Force for Global Health has been named the recipient of the 2016 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize—the world’s largest humanitarian prize–for its extraordinary
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces The Task Force For Global Health As 2016 Recipient of $2 Million Hilton Humanitarian Prize
Atlanta-based organization to receive largest humanitarian award in the world for its contributions to improving health of people living in extreme poverty (Los Angeles) Aug.
Task Force to Compile Lessons Learned from Polio Vaccine ‘Switch’ and Other Steps in Polio Eradication
On the heels of the ‘switch’ in the type of oral polio vaccine used around the world, which was declared complete on May 27, The
CHAMPS Selects Three Sites in Africa to Begin Collecting Data about the Causes of Childhood Illness and Death
The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network, an initiative that includes the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) at The Task Force, has selected
Young African Leaders Inspired to Take Lessons in Global Public Health Back Home
A delegation of Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Fellows, representing 22 countries, visited The Task Force for Global Health on July 22 to learn about
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.
