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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 …

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

From Destroying Humanity to Saving It: Task Force CEO’s Career a Study in Contrast
David Ross’s journey to leading the country’s second largest non-profit organization had far from a typical beginning. The CEO of The Task Force for Global

Letter from Our CEO: 2017, Another Breakthrough Year for The Task Force
Dear friends, A few years ago, I had the opportunity to join a meeting of ministry of health officials from countries in East Africa. Their

The Invisible Elements that Drive the Engine of Disease Elimination
On a cool October day in a village high up in the mountainous reaches of northern Pakistan, men, women, and children gathered to take a

Bridging the Digital Divide
The Public Health Informatics Institute helps broker unprecedented agreement on a standard for exchanging critical health information in the United States. It’s a cold

Bill Foege, MD, MPH, Speaking About His New Books
Our co-founder, Bill Foege, MD, MPH, spoke and signed his two newest books on Saturday, September 1, 2018 at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur,
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.