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Elimination Champions Honored for World Hepatitis Day
July 28th marks World Hepatitis Day to enhance awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes a range of health problems, including …
Digital Bridge Breaks New Ground in 2019, Launches in Two Sites
Approach Could Prove Revolutionary for U.S. Public Health In what could be a transformative step for public health in the United States, Houston and Utah
Ambitious Roadmap Outlines How Countries Can Better Respond to Disease Outbreaks
The Task Force for Global Health and its global partners have crafted a far-reaching, seven-step action framework to modernize, strengthen, and expand global Field Epidemiology
CHAMPS Data Highlights Causes of Newborn and Child Deaths in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
For the first time, public health officials and researchers around the globe will have access to accurate and timely data about the causes of death
A Leprosy Advocate, Who Was Once a Patient, Talks About Stigma, Empowerment, and Treatment
In 2010, Mathias Duck was working at a hospital in his native Paraguay when he began to feel tingling in two fingers of his right
The Task Force Helps Bangladesh Roll Out Plan to Eliminate Intestinal Worm Infections
The Task Force for Global Health is assisting Bangladesh in reshaping its soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) program so that the country can eliminate intestinal worm infections
What Makes Us Optimistic for 2019
At The Task Force, we are consummate optimists about global health. So we thought it only fitting that we end 2018 by asking a few
New $29.9M Funding Boosts Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
A new $29.97 million grant will build on the successes of a collaborative research partnership hosted by The Task Force for Global Health to control
TEPHINET Director Recognized with The Task Force’s Inaugural Consequential Compassion Award
When TEPHINET joined The Task Force in 2009, it consisted of only 30 field epidemiology training programs (FETPs) in the same number of countries. Today,
The Task Force Embarks on Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis B and C
The Task Force for Global Health has launched an ambitious program to eliminate hepatitis B and C, two infectious diseases that affect more than 300
Influenza Symposium Kicks off The Task Force’s Inaugural Topics in Global Health Series
It’s flu season in the United States, and while flu causes more deaths and hospitalizations than any other vaccine-preventable disease in the country, most people
Global Health, Leadership, and Politics: Perspectives from Bill Foege
Global health luminary and The Task Force’s co-founder, Bill Foege, said public health leaders must be involved in the political process if they are to
Q&A with The Task Force Board’s Newest Member: Public Broadcasting Atlanta CEO Wonya Lucas
Wonya Lucas, who recently joined The Task Force for Global Health Board of Directors, is a veteran in the world of marketing and communications. She’s
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.
