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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 …
New Resource Aims to Improve Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
A new playbook by The Task Force’s Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), in collaboration with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at
Task Force Immunization Experts Help 35+ Countries with COVID-19 Vaccinations
Vaccine inequity continues to challenge the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While 62% of the world’s population has received at least one dose of
Press Release: Task Force for Global Health CEO Dave Ross to Retire This Year
ATLANTA – The Task Force for Global Health announced today that CEO and President David A. Ross, ScD, will be retiring this year. Dr. Ross
Control, Eliminate, Eradicate: What’s the difference? Q&A with Epidemiologist Sanjaya Dhakal
Global health has lots of jargon and terms that can be confusing for people who don’t speak it for a living. Ending preventable diseases is
Why We Beat NTDs: Celebrating World NTD Day
January 30 is World NTD Day and World Leprosy Day so this issue of Dispatches reports on neglected tropical diseases and delves into the differences
Heart-to-Heart: Ethiopian Doctor Uses compassion + Medical Training to Fight NTDs
In 30 years of practice, Dr. Zerihun Tadesse has touched nearly every part of the Ethiopian health system. He worked as a general practitioner in
Two-year Study Finds Effective Treatment for Disabling and Stigmatizing Condition
Preliminary results from a two-year study in six countries suggest significant improvement for people affected by lymphedema, thanks particularly to daily hygiene of the affected
Frequent Contact: One Health Worker’s Secret to Reaching Zero Leprosy in Mozambique
Seventy kilometers outside Mossuril, in Nampula Province along the Mozambican coast, Simione Vontade, 29, was bumping along a tropical, sandy road when his car was
Task Force Contributes to Special COVID-19 Session of the World Health Assembly
COVID-19 deaths surpassed five million people globally in November and there have been more than 250 million cases. While American children are now able to
Masterclass Series: ‘Leading and Managing in a Crisis’
By Andi Kezh, Task Force Intern The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear just how essential global pandemic preparedness truly is. It’s not only activities like
MedSurplus Alliance’s Kits4Life Initiative Wins U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Award
This week, Bayer U.S. LLC Pharmaceuticals and the MedSurplus Alliance’s Kits4Life Initiative received the 2021 U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Corporate Citizen Award. Kits4Life Founder Greg
Why Give to The Task Force? Q&A with Chief External Relations Officer Lynn Heinisch and Board Member Jim Jackson
As the end-of-year charitable giving season begins, we speak with Task Force Chief External Relations Officer Lynn Heinisch and board member Jim Jackson, Chief Marketing
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.
