By Charles Redding Days before the California wildfires began, NPR wrote a piece titled “What The Pileup Of U.S. Disasters Means For The World.” It discussed donor fatigue and the difficulties many aid organizations face in the wake of multiple disasters. Fewer and fewer funds are raised as each new piece of bad news comes in. […]
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Georgia-based MAP International Recognized For Excellence
A commitment to accountability and transparency has paid off for Georgia-based MAP International (www.map.org) as the organization has earned Charity Navigator’s perfect score of “100” and its fifth consecutive four-star rating. “Charity Navigator is a trusted source used by donors who want to ensure their gifts are being used as efficiently as possible,” said Steve Stirling, […]
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Building on The Task Force’s Legacy of Collaboration
By Dave Ross, ScD, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Task Force for Global Health The Task Force was originally conceived to bring together the world’s leading global health and development agencies to raise childhood immunization rates in developing countries. Under the guidance of our founder Dr. Bill Foege, The Task Force provided a mechanism for […]
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You Can Improve Lives in Destructive Hurricane Season
By Judy Monroe, MD, president and CEO of the CDC Foundation If you have watched the news lately, you have seen the devastation from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. You may be wondering how you can help our friends, neighbors and fellow American citizens, on the mainland and in U.S. territories. In the aftermath of […]
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Worldwide Disaster Relief: Together We Can Make a Difference
Monsoon flooding, catastrophic mudslides, multiple consecutive hurricanes, and record-breaking earthquakes. It seems like unprecedented natural disasters have been happening every day over the past few weeks. But what we’ve also found in that time is that incredible generosity and human kindness happen every day too. I continue to be in awe of humanity and the […]
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Responding to disasters on many fronts
Before there was Irma, there was Harvey. Before Harvey, there was an unnamed disaster in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Though you might not have seen it on cable news, Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, experienced unrelenting rains only a few days before Harvey made landfall in Texas. Nearly 1,000 people perished and thousands more […]
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7 ways CDC is keeping us safe from deadly diseases
The threat is real: defunding CDC puts us all in danger, in every country of the globe By: Courtney Carson, MA, Policy and Advocacy Officer, GHTC & Brandon Ball, Policy & Advocacy Officer, PATH Photo: Dr. Stephen Redd gives a tour of CDC’s Emergency Operations Center, which serves as a command center for monitoring and […]
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American Board Of Obstetrics And Gynecology Honors Dr. Larry Gilstrap III
By Amy Macklin, senior advancement officer for the CDC Foundation To honor Dr. Larry C. Gilstrap III’s legacy as executive director of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) and in recognition of his profound impact on the health of women and children whose care he has influenced, ABOG has made a generous gift […]
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Mudslides in Sierra Leone
by Charles Redding, CEO and President of MedShare During the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014, MedShare sent more than $2.4 million worth of medical aid to Sierra Leone. Healthcare professionals in the country were fighting for the lives of their patients without the tools they needed to save them – until medical donations through […]
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Haiti Disease Detectives Join Fight Against Zika
By Dr. Dionisio Herrera Guibert, Director of TEPHINET I recently attended a graduation ceremony in Haiti for 25 field epidemiologists who completed a training program in detecting and responding to Zika outbreaks in their communities. It was an honor to participate in this ceremony along with Dr. Patrick O’Carroll who leads our health systems strengthening […]
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Together With CDC And You, Our Impact Is Greater
By Judy Monroe, MD, president and CEO for the CDC Foundation Does your brand reflect who you are? Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos has said, “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” That’s interesting to think about. What would people say about you or your organization when […]
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Clean Birthing Kit Project
Each day, over 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. And 2 million mothers watch their babies die within 24 hours of birth. But the good news is, these deaths are preventable. In fact, 98% of maternal deaths are preventable. And if low-cost, low-tech medical care is provided to infants and […]
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A Vision for All of Africa
Photo: Okechukwu Obodo (right) lost his sight from river blindness 15 years ago. He lives on his own with help from neighbors in Enugu State, Nigeria. (credit: The Carter Center/R. McDowall) By Ambassador (ret.) Mary Ann Peters, CEO of The Carter Center Leveraging the experience of our pioneering work to eradicate Guinea worm disease, The Carter Center […]
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Ebola: People + Public Health + Political Will
By Claire Stinson, senior communications officer for the CDC Foundation What was it like at ground zero of the worst outbreak of Ebola in history? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) David J. Sencer Museum will be the first U.S. museum to offer an overview of the devastating viral outbreak that killed more […]
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Amid Adversity, Dedicated Vaccination Teams Battle Polio Outbreak in Nigeria
Photo:In Sokoto, Nigeria, a child receives a dose of oral polio vaccine during a campaign in response to a polio outbreak. The multi-partner Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) conducts periodic evaluations to assess the quality of polio outbreak responses. Photo credit: UNICEF By Meg Farrell, MPH, Polio Eradication Support, The Task Force for Global Health […]
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The Journey toward Polio Eradication
By Dr. Judy Monroe Sixty years ago few diseases struck as much fear in parents and children as polio. I know because my mother, who is now 95, was infected with polio in 1952 at the height of the epidemic. It’s difficult for us to imagine in the United States today, but the journey toward […]
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Gates Foundation and Rotary International Accept First Bill Foege Global Health Awards
Photo Above: Bob Hope, Founder Hope-Beckham, Dr. Bill Foege, Steve Stirling, MAP International, Jeff Rosensweig, Director of the Global Perspectives Program at Goizueta Business School of Emory University, Ambassador Andrew Young, and John Germ, President, Rotary International More than 400 leaders and advocates came together Sunday evening, June 11, in Atlanta to recognize the accomplishments […]
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2 Million Mothers
by Charles Redding, CEO & President of MedShare In 2006 a baby named Malena was born in Ecuador. The third daughter born to a single mother in an impoverished area, Malena didn’t have access to traditional medical care as a newborn. Complications during her birth meant that she didn’t get enough oxygen to her brain. […]
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Partnership Works to Protect Burkina Faso from Meningitis A
By Pierce Nelson, vice president for communications for the CDC Foundation The thermometer nears 95 degrees at 8:00 a.m. in Laye, Burkina Faso, a small village about 20 miles from the capital city of Ouagadougou. Though the temperature will top 105 degrees today, the heat has not kept the mothers of a few dozen children […]
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First Annual Bill Foege Global Health Award To Be Presented to Rotary International and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in June
By Martin Smith, Director of Marketing MAP International On June 11, 2017, MAP International and the Atlanta global health community will launch the annual Bill Foege Global Health Awards. Created in honor of Dr. Bill Foege, a folk hero in the global health community, the annual award will recognize people and organizations who contribute substantially […]
