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Investing in Women Improves Health for All
In the month of March, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (March 8) and the U.S. marks Women’s History Month. While strides have been made …

Tackling Gender Disparities in Health: Q&A with Three Experts
When health practitioners and researchers look at underlying causes of poor health and well-being, they see a number of interconnected issues, from race to gender

Task Force Women on Working in Global Health
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Task Force women share what it is like working in the global health sector. Women make

Task Force Reps at UN Commission on the Status of Women
Three Task Force representatives join the 65th session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women from March 15 – 26. The commission

Introducing New Vaccine for Polio Eradication: Q&A with Task Force Senior Epidemiologist Victor Eboh
The global polio eradication effort is moving one step closer to success with the upcoming rollout of a new vaccine, the novel oral polio vaccine

Podcast: Digital Contact Tracing for COVID-19
Inform Me, Informatics · #28: Vivian Singletary on digital contact tracing for COVID-19 The Task Force’s Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) Director Vivian Singletary, JM,

Task Force Hosts Panel on Being Black in Public Health
Five employees shared their perspectives on being Black public health professionals during a virtual panel on February 18 hosted by The Task Force during Black

Spread Truth, Not Disease: The Task Force’s First Hackathon
Ever wondered how you can help solve a problem as big as eliminating diseases that affect more than a billion people? If you have, The

Press Release: CDC Taps The Task Force’s Expertise to Roll Out COVID-19 Vaccine in up to 50 Countries
ATLANTA (February 18, 2021) — – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has invested an initial $10.7 million in The Task Force for

Supply Chains: The Critical Backbone of NTD programs
Question: What does it take to deliver at least 1.5 billion doses of medicine to over 70 countries each year? Answer: A first-rate supply chain.

This World NTD Day Our Symposium Celebrates First-Ever NTD Partnership
January 30 marked World NTD Day, an occasion to raise awareness about neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). One such NTD is a disabling parasitic infection endemic

Shaping Africa’s Next Generation of NTD Researchers
African researchers from Malawi, Ethiopia, Benin and Kenya share their stories in a video called “Research for Africans, by Africans.” Each received funding from the
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.