This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Governing magazine posted a recent report about medical marijuana’s approval as a treatment for opioid addiction in Pennsylvania, the second state (after New Jersey) to greenlight…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bloomberg reports on Bill Gates’ interest in emerging vaccine technologies to fight diseases, while also finding encouragement in microbiome studies to discover causes of malnutrition. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • WHO recommends a test for previous exposure to dengue before the administration of Dengvaxia, a dengue vaccine created by Sanofi. • How should doctors balance the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fred Hutch News Service reports on researchers discovering a human antibody that can block Epstein-Barr, a virus associated with 200,000 cancer cases per year. • Cancer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • With 30 years of experience researching HIV and other infectious diseases, Robert Redfield appears to have the resume to lead the Centers for Disease Control. However,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Noncommunicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes are increasing in Africa. However, it is challenging to obtain sufficient funding needed to address these diseases. • How can philanthropy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world has made amazing progress in expanding access to health over the past few decades. Between 1990 and 2017, the number of people living in poverty has been cut…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • New medical developments, construction of buildings dedicated to research, and science industry partnerships are all on the horizon for Seattle Children’s Research Institute. • Can philanthropy play a bigger…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Seattle Children’s tells the story of an infant named Rowen, who was born with a ventricular septal defect (essentially a hole in his heart), which required…
Giving Compass’ Take: • In this TED Talk, a doctor named Soka Moses details the 2014 Ebola crisis in Liberia, discussing the chaos and fear that reigned as thousands died,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TB is preventable and curable but it continues to kill more than a million people each year. Inequality and lack of access to medical knowledge and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Peter Sands took over this month as the new head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. But before he’d even officially taken his seat at the Fund’s…