This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In laying out the Sustainable Development Goals, the international community set itself an ambitious set of targets to achieve by the end of the next decade. But the challenge of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since March 2007, the federal government has maintained a website to help researchers, evaluators and community practitioners find effective, proven, evidence-based programs that work to both prevent and treat substance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Torrential downpours and subsequent mudslides in the crowded capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, earlier this week are expected to worsen the cholera outbreak that has held…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Deworm the World Initiative works in close partnership with governments around the world to eliminate the public health threat of worms by supporting the scale-up of school-based mass deworming…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Twenty-two research-based biopharmaceutical companies invested more than $2 billion in research and development to counter antimicrobial resistance in 2016, according to a survey released Thursday, potentially upending widespread perceptions that the private sector…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Nigeria’s battles on to become a polio-free country, Bill and Melinda Gates have taken an extraordinary step to give Africa’s largest economy a helping hand through their foundation. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we look ahead to an exciting 2018, it’s a good moment to reflect on the recent past. Steve Caddick, Wellcome’s Director of Innovation, provides a personal perspective on some of…
“When you’re in the middle of a crisis and you have to ask for money, you’re already too late.” That’s Dr. Beth Cameron, and she’s someone who should know. Beth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. FasterCures’ second Partnering for Cures of 2017 closed with a discussion of the new generation of philanthropists pledging their funds to help solve some of humankind’s most pressing health challenges. The conversation covered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Parasitic worm infections disproportionately affect people living in poverty, especially those who are difficult to reach with mass drug administration. Evidence Action is committed to supporting innovations that enable treatment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How is thalidomide—the drug that resulted in over 10,000 children with birth defects—related to Alzheimer’s? Once a scandal that rocked the health care world, thalidomide can now be viewed as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past few decades, one of the biggest points of order for major health and philanthropic groups including the WHO, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN, and the…