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Fighting COVID and Advancing Health Equity at Home and around the World

By: David Ross, ScD, CEO and President, The Task Force for Global Health The Task Force for Global Health may be one of Georgia’s...

Could We Have Been More Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Responding to the scale and impact of the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge the public health community has not faced in the modern...

The Ambitious Goal of Beating Neglected Tropical Diseases

One billion. It can be difficult to conceptualize a number so big. If you were to count one number per second for eight hours a day,...

Improving Quality Of Care At The Core Of Health System Strengthening

In 2013, the 90-90-90 goals were set to help end the global AIDS epidemic – by 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their...

Task Force Informatics Helps Build Comprehensive Profile Of Patients With Inherited Metabolic Disord

One of its kind initiative in state aims to better understand the diseases and treatment outcomes When Bentley Vining was born, he was...

Atlanta At The Center Of Innovation In Global Health Diagnostics

Atlanta At The Center Of Innovation In Global Health Diagnostics With smartphones changing nearly every aspect of consumer life for the...

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,...

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...

African Grants Program Builds Local Capacity to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases

Africa accounts for 40 percent of the global burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Last year, The Task Force and its partners...

Dr. Ann Aerts Discusses New Leprosy Partnership

Head of Novartis Foundation, Ann Aerts, MD, visited our HQ this month to discuss the opportunities for the new Global Partnership for...