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14 November 2011
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NKH Campaign, “What’s” Been Achieved, and “So What?”

It’s been about a year since we publicly launched our No Kid Hungry campaign with Jeff Bridges and we will...

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31 October 2011
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Three Governors whose leadership makes a difference

In the last two weeks I’ve been able to spend time with three of the Governors whose states have made...

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30 October 2011
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Health conditions that emerge through poverty and cause it

Peter Hotez, whose bold vision led to the first National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University is someone I...

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30 October 2011
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When social change begins with changing the conversation

I had lunch recently with my friend Jim Down, a wonderful strategic thinker who led Mercer Management Consulting until retiring...

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30 October 2011
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Still swimming against the current: an unreasonable man speaks out

Malaria vaccines have been in the headlines once again, raising hopes that a vaccine that can prevent or even eradicate...

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24 October 2011
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cathedral builders of science

In his statement on the Phase III results of the clinical trial for malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S, Peter Hotez, the...

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23 October 2011
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Remarkable Results from No Kid Hungry campaign in Arkansas

         On Friday I was in Little Rock with Governor Beebe to celebrate the first anniversary of our No Kid Hungry campaign in Arkansas...

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23 October 2011
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A scientist whose tools are microscope and macroscope

Thanks to Dr. Peter Hotez, neglected tropical diseases are neglected no more. His vision for a National School of Tropical...

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20 October 2011
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lessons in “eradication”, whether malaria or childhood hunger

On Tuesday while we were at our staff retreat in Baltimore the Gates Foundation was hosting a forum in Seattle...