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Georgia Global Health Alliance taking shape with help from Seattle model
Georgia is on the cusp of seizing an opportunity to leverage the rich and diverse global health assets that exist the state.
At the end of the 2015 Health Connect South gathering at the Georgia Aquarium on Wednesday, a framework for a Georgia Global Health Alliance was presented by two influential champions – Dr. Louis Sullivan and Dr. Mark Rosenberg.
Posted inATL Business Chronicle
Column: Atlanta groups to spearhead Gates-funded effort to save kids
By Maria Saporta
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on August 14, 2015
Several Atlanta public health organizations are leading an effort sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to curb infant mortality around the world.
Gates is funding the initiative – Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) – with a $75 million grant for the first three years. The intention is for the program to be in place for 20 years. As it steps up its operations around the world, it is estimated that it could cost about $50 million a year. That would total $1 billion – as large a gift as the Gates have ever made.
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Column: Decatur’s Task Force for Global Health expands its visibility
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 20, 2015
One of the less-known nonprofits in Georgia — the Decatur-based Task Force for Global Health — is beginning to gain some visibility.
The largest nonprofit based in Georgia is one of the leading international players in promoting global health initiatives, including partnering with other organizations to provide vaccinations to prevent numerous devastating diseases in the developing world.
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Column: Decatur’s Task Force for Global Health expands its visibility
By Maria Saporta
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on March 20, 2015
One of the less-known nonprofits in Georgia — the Decatur-based Task Force for Global Health — is beginning to gain some visibility.
The largest nonprofit based in Georgia is one of the leading international players in promoting global health initiatives, including partnering with other organizations to provide vaccinations to prevent numerous devastating diseases in the developing world.
Posted inGlobal Health & Development, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Atlanta Joins Together to Fight Ebola As Window Closes
If we continue to work together we can save the lives of those healthcare workers still treating patients in West Africa and prevent the spread of Ebola elsewhere. Act now.
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MAP International CEO Michael Nyenhuis to be CEO of AmeriCares
By Maria Saporta
Georgia-based MAP International’s longtime president and CEO — Michael Nyenhuis — will become president and CEO of Stamford, Ct.-based AmeriCares, one of the top 20 charitable organizations in the United States.
Nyenhuis, who has been with MAP, a Christian global health organization, for nearly 19 years —14 as its president and CEO, will leave his post at the end of January. MAP is co-headquartered in Atlanta and Brunswick, the site of its major distribution center.
“I love MAP, its work and people and leave it in good shape and in good hands,” Nyenhuis wrote in an email before sending out the news release.
Posted inMaria's Metro
Coca-Cola’s EKOCENTERs showcase Atlanta as global development center
Maybe it’s time to launch an Atlanta Global Initiative.
For the past several years, Atlanta has emerged as a leading center for global health with the presence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Carter Center, the Task Force for Global Health, the Rollins School for Public Health at Emory University, the Morehouse School of Medicine, MedShare, MAP International, the CDC Foundation, CARE to name a few.
But Atlanta’s global impact does not stop there. Atlanta is home to numerous philanthropic organizations and corporations that contribute to the well-being of citizens around the world — Habitat for Humanity International, the American Cancer Society, the Coca-Cola Co., Delta Air Lines, United Parcel Service, Home Depot among others.
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Nonprofits improving our town by using products we would throw away
By Maria Saporta
What do the Atlanta Community Food Bank, MedShare and Lifecycle Building Center have in common?
Each nonprofit provides an opportunity for products to be used or reused, and each one of them prevent products from being thrown away and ending up in a landfill.
Executives from each organization were part of a panel discussion on Friday at the Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable on “Transforming the World through Reuse.”
Posted inGlobal Health & Development, MAP International, Thought Leader, Uncategorized
Treating the little-known Buruli ulcer
I am in Liberia this week to celebrate the delivery of a large shipment of medicines and medical supplies valued at $6.5 million to treat people from the tropical disease Buruli ulcer.
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UNICEF — 19,000 children die each day; asks for Atlantans to help
By Maria Saporta
Every day 19,000 children die from preventable causes — imagine a sold-out Philips Arena of children dying day after day after day.
“It’s obscene,” said Dr. Ed Lloyd, chief operating and financial officer of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. “Have any of us read about this appalling tragedy in the newspaper — about 19,000 children dying every day? Many children are just forgotten…. I’m just outraged that this is not being blasted in the media. Nearly half of these deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Lloyd was speaking as part of a special reception on “Connecting Atlanta to Africa Through Global Citizenship” on Feb. 21 at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center.
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Gates Foundation $28.8 million grant boosts city’s global health prominence
By Maria Saporta and Ruchika Tulshyan
Published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Friday, February 8, 2013
Atlanta’s emergence as a center for global health was reaffirmed Feb. 4 when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the Task Force for Global Health a $28.8 million grant to combat neglected tropical diseases.
The Decatur-based Task Force for Global Health, the fifth-largest nonprofit in the United States, is among a constellation of organizations based in Atlanta that is working to improve the lives of the most impoverished people in the world.
Posted inMaria's Metro
Atlanta’s destiny — gateway of ‘global development from the bottom up’
Atlanta’s destiny is coming into focus.
The latest evidence of that was Saturday night at the Salute to Greatness dinner — the annual fundraiser for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change.
It was at that dinner when Laura Turner Seydel introduced honoree Muhammad Yunus, the father of micro-credit who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
“Professor Yunus is a close friend to my family. He’s like a brother to my father,” said Seydel of her father Ted Turner.
In fact, Yunus is a longtime board member of the United Nations Foundation, which was started by Turner to help improve the lives of people around the world.
Posted inATL Business Chronicle, Maria's Metro
Column: Quality of state’s child-care centers ‘eroding’
By Maria Saporta
Published in the ABC on Friday, June 15, 2012
The quality of child care in Georgia experienced a decline for the fourth year in a row, according to a new report that is to be released June 15. The statewide survey was conducted by the Atlanta-based nonprofit group Quality Care for Children.
The nonprofit conducted its fourth annual survey of child-care centers in February and March, interviewing nearly 900 providers.
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Effort under way to brand Atlanta as global health center
By Maria Saporta
Friday, June 01, 2012
Atlanta often claims to be something it’s not — hoping it eventually will become what it claims.
Ironically, Atlanta can accurately claim to be a leading center for global health. But for a host of reasons, Atlanta has yet to fully capitalize on the presence of numerous global health institutions based in the metro area.
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Summit on global health and water showcases Atlanta’s institutions
By Maria Saporta
Atlanta seized an opportunity Monday to show national and international visitors how the city and its institutions can help improve global health.
The all-day conference at the Ritz Carlton-Buckhead was called: Atlanta Summit: Sustaining American Leadership in Global Health & Water. It was organized by CARE USA, the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. And more than a dozen other Atlanta-based organizations participated in the event.
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Column: Georgia Research Alliance sees vast improvement
By Maria Saporta
Friday, January 20, 2012
The tide has turned for the Georgia Research Alliance.
A year ago, the public-private research and innovation organization was fighting for survival. Gov. Nathan Deal had proposed in his first budget, which had been put together by the administration of former Gov. Sonny Perdue, to slash GRA’s funding from nearly $17 million to $4.5 million.
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French Consulate provides review of 2011 France-Atlanta
By Maria Saporta
The Consulate General of France in Atlanta has reason to celebrate.
The second-annual France-Atlanta two-week gathering brought together a wide variety of people — elected officials, professional experts, scientists, diplomats, humanitarian leaders and performing artists to forge a closer relationship between the French and Georgians.
The theme of the 2011 conference was: “France-Atlanta: Together Towards Innovation,” a partnership between the French government, Georgia Tech and numerous other French and American organizations.
