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How Medicaid Can End Childhood Hunger: Ashleigh’s Story
When Ashleigh Ligon’s husband got injured at work, preventing them from earning income and affording health insurance, their circumstances changed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What we owe our partners and other stakeholders
I’m writing from my home away from home – National Airport – where I’m waiting out a 90 minute delay...
When poltical calculation becomes politcal callousness
I’m en route from Boston to Anchorage, Alaska. During the course of ten hours in the air it’s hard to...
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