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13 July 2010
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Partners in Health provides transparency and health care

One of Share Our Strength’s major grant recipients since the earthquake in Haiti has been Partners In Health. Yesterday, on the 6...

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12 July 2010
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Gates Foundation IOWH Grant

Last week the Gates Foundation announced a $10 million grant to the Institute for One World Health (IOWH) to increase...

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08 July 2010
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THE FEVER, a courageous book bears witness to the drama of man’s struggle to end malaria

Yesterday the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/07/07/in_fever_examining_malarias_ruthless_history/) reviewed a new book called The Fever, by Sonia Shaw, about the impact malaria has...

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07 July 2010
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Imagining a National School of Tropical Medicine and Neglected Infections of Poverty for North America

Thanks to the Gates Foundation and others there has been a surge of interest in global health issues like malaria...

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30 April 2010
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“Kids in poverty need escape velocity”

I had the opportunity last night to listen to my old friend Eric Schwarz, the founder of Citizen Schools, share...

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27 April 2010
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Polio, malaria, hunger and expensive failures of imagination

Last Sunday’s celebration of the third annual World Malaria Day was met with great optimism about the progress made i...

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21 April 2010
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Adam Nadel’s photographs bear witness to malaria’s toll

Yesterday in New York I stopped by the United Nations to see a special photographic exhibit running through May 15...

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19 April 2010
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Overcoming Failures of Imagination

This weekend’s Global Health and Innovation Conference sponsored by Unite For Sight brought 2200 participants together from the fields of...

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16 April 2010
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bearing witness in a quiet workshop in Haiti

We returned to Haiti this week, on the three month anniversary of the earthquake, to try to keep some of...