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16 February 2011
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rising food prices push millions into extreme poverty

When hundreds of thousands of Egyptian protestors push unto Tahrir Square it makes for dramatic media coverage. But when tens...

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14 February 2011
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Linking Hunger and Global Health

 The Web Site L.A. Observed is reporting that global health is the new hot Hollywood ticket and the guests a...

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13 February 2011
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Bread and Protest: connecting hunger, the voiceless, global health, and Egyptian Revolution

Today’s New York Times, includes a link to one of the best articulations of the connections between, hunger, the voiceless, global health...

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12 February 2011
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Getting Off the Sidelines and Into the Game

In anticipation of President Obama’s announcement of his 2012 budget proposal on Monday, the Chronicle of Philanthropy published an article...

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06 February 2011
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New York Review of Books on The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men is reviewed in the Feb 24, 2011 New York Review of Books (NYRB). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/stopping-malaria-wrong-road/ Though...

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04 February 2011
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Book Party Celebrating Global Health Entrepreneur Steve Hoffman

Tuesday will be a wonderful opportunity to meet global health entrepreneur Steve Hoffman, who developed the malaria vaccine on which...

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31 January 2011
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How Poverty Has Disappeared from the National Dialogue

Last week, prior to the State of the Union, I wrote about my fear that President Obama would feel politically...

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30 January 2011
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“A powerful imagination generates the event”

Over the weekend I picked up one of the slim “Great Ideas” volumes published by Penguin Books. It was a...

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24 January 2011
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Hoping for some FDR in Obama State of the Union

The State of the Union speech tomorrow will be scrutinized and analyzed based on the President’s every word. But I...