From Our August/September 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• 19Labs: How a Silicon Valley Startup’s Experiment in Guyana Can Inform US Health Care [Observer]
• UCSF: Administration Announces $150M from ARPA-H to Deliver Progress on Biden Cancer Moonshot Goals & Improve Health Outcomes [White House]
• UC Berkeley: Mosquito-Borne Virus Prompts Public Health Restrictions in Massachusetts – And Backlash [The Guardian]
• Meta: AI-Supported Telemedicine Brings Health Care to Refugees [Devex]
• Pfizer: How Medical Training & Knowledge-Sharing Can Help Close the Health Equity Gap [Devex]
• UC Davis: Embedded Bias: Doctors Use Problematic Race-Based Algorithms to Guide Care Every Day. Why Are They So Hard to Change? [STAT, first in four-part series]
• PATH: Behind the Malaria Vaccines: A 40-Year Quest Against One of Humanity’s Biggest Killers [STAT]
• Stanford: AI & Biosecurity: The Need for Governance [Science]
• UC Davis: Attacking the AI Bias Problem [Politico]
• Merck Ebola Vaccine Ervebo Shown to Offer Substantial Protection [STAT]
• UNICEF Warns Half a Billion Children’s Health at Risk from Extreme Heat – As Days of Exposure Double [Health Policy Watch]
• DNDi: What Is Kala-Azar, & Why Are Health Experts Alarmed by Its Rising Spread? [Devex]
• JSI: Immunizations Across the Life Course to Strengthen Health Security [CSIS]
• PHI: Is Your Community Unsafe or Are You Just Watching the News? [LA Times]
• Living Goods: Opinion I Why We Should Digitalise Health Sector [The Monitor]
• Pathfinder, CCSI Advocate Improving Maternal Health [The Sun, Nigeria]
• UCSF: More Women Are Ending Pregnancies on Their Own, a New Study Suggests. Some Resort to Unsafe Methods [AP]
• UC Davis: What to Know About EEE, a Rare Mosquito-Borne Illness [New York Times]
• UC Berkeley Professor Sheds Light on Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue [Oakland Post]
• UC Davis: Scientists May Have Found a Radical Solution for Making Your Hamburger Less Bad for the Planet [Washington Post]
• Stanford: Switching Asthma Inhalers Could Reduce Carbon Emissions, Says Study [STAT]
• UCSF: Microplastics Are Everywhere, but Are They Harming Us? [AP]
• Viamo & Telecel Ghana Foundation Renew Partnership with 321 Service Relaunch [Tech Africa News]
• SF Community Health Center: ‘They’re Already on Top of S—‘: A Night with the City’s Tenderloin Street-Care Team [SF Examiner]
• Stanford I UCSF: Biden Administration’s $3.2B Antiviral Pandemic Plan Is Fizzling Out [STAT]
• Pfizer Upgrades Australia Manufacturing Plant to Help Fight Antimicrobial Resistance [Fierce Pharma]
• Stanford: There’s More Data for Trans People with HIV than Any Other Disease — But It’s Still Flawed [STAT]
• UC Berkeley I UCSF: Will California Remember the Lessons of the COVID Health Emergency? [Mercury News]
• Pfizer‘s Gene Therapy Cuts Hemophilia A Bleeding Rate in Late-Stage Trial [Reuters]
• Merck‘s mAB Prevents RSV in Infants, Teeing up Talks with Regulators [Fierce Biotech]
• Gilead Wins US Approval for Drug to Treat Autoimmune Liver Disease [STAT]
• UNICEF: Vaccine Doses for 600,000 Children & Pregnant Women Flown to North Korea [The Guardian]
• UC Berkeley: Nudge Theory Is Making Inroads in Health Care, with Mixed Results [Undark]
• PHI: How Much Alcohol Can You Drink a Week & Still Be Healthy? [Wall Street Journal]
• UCSF: Some Bats Eat a Ton of Sugar & Have No Health Woes. Are There Lessons for Diabetes? [NPR]
• SF Community Health Center: Gonorrhea Persistent Foe as Other STIs Plunge in SF [Bay Area Reporter]

More Member News

• Ananya Health Secures $2.3M SBIR Grant from NCI to Accelerate Development of Novel Cryoablation Platform
• Kainomyx Announces Potential Partnership for Joint Development of Affordable Anti-Malarial Drug
• Merck Reports Strong Momentum in Expanding & Enabling Access to Health Care, Driving Sustainability & Operating Responsibly in 2023/2024 Impact Report
• Stanford: Forecasting Climate’s Impact on a Debilitating Disease
• UC Berkeley: Half-Million-Dollar Grant Will Create Peer Review & Science Communication Curriculum for Grad Students
• UNICEF Warns That Torrential Rains & Floods in South Asia Endanger Millions of Children
• PATH: New Tools to Help Middle-Income Countries Make Vaccination Decisions
• YLabs I UC Berkeley: Digital Health Platform Sparks Rise in Contraceptive Use Among Rwandan Teens
• Nivi: Ensuring Health & Economic Well-Being of Women: Paving the Way for a Bustling Health Marketplace
• ReSurge International Mourns the Loss of Ugandan Olympian and Burn Attack Victim
• Cross-Border Impact Ventures Leads New Round of Funding for Raydiant Oximetry
• UC Davis: Understanding the Threat of Bird Flu
• Nexleaf Analytics: A New Platform for Smart Equipment Data: EqMIS
• Living Goods: Empowering County Health Leadership on Governance
• JSI: A Digital Gateway to Health Behaviors Among Youths in Ethiopia
• ReSurge International: Impactful Ninja’s 9 Best Charities That Help Burn Victims
• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Breakthroughs in Influenza Vaccination: Highlights from the Sabin IVI Program
• UC Berkeley: Financing the Pandemic Cycle: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, & Recovery & Reconstruction
• UC Davis: Global Collaboration in Action: The Rx One Health Field Institute’s Journey Through California
• UC Berkeley: Switching from Gas to Electric Stoves Cuts Indoor Air Pollution
• UC Berkeley: Dangerous Airborne Fungus Boosted by California Droughts
• World Telehealth Initiative: Ultrasound Pilot Program: Bringing Critical Diagnostic Tools to Low-Resource Hospitals
• Watsi: Resilient Roads: How Do You Get from a Refugee Camp to a Hospital Bed?
• 19Labs: Bridging Healthcare Gaps, Partnering with Viasat to Transform Lives in Oaxaca, Mexico
• GAIA Global Health Monthly Newsletter
• Planetary Health Alliance Monthly Newsletter
• UCSF: Andrea DeLuca Selected as Deputy Director for IGHS
• YLabs’ New CEO: Dr. Chinwe Effiong
• Fistula Foundation Named Among 2024 .ORG Impact Awards Finalists
• OPHID‘s Efison Dodho Receives Global Digi Award for T-MIS
• ReSurge International: Laub Fellow Dr. Olivia Meewon Park
• PHI I UC Berkeley: Inaugural Cohort of Impact Fellows
• Africa Health Business Launches 5-Year Impact Report
• San Francisco Community Health Center: Impact Report 2024
• Seed Global Health‘s 2023-2024 Annual Report
• PATH Releases Gender Strategy 2025
• UC Berkeley School of Public Health Welcomes Inaugural Cohort of Impact Fellows
• Seed Global Health: Welcoming a New Cohort of Educators: Training Doctors, Nurses, & Midwives for Tomorrow
• UC Berkeley I Gilead Sciences Launch the Gilead-Berkeley Global Health Equity Initiative
• PATH Releases 2023 Global Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Annual Report
• Chevron Named One of 2024 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion
• PHI: Melissa Stafford Jones, Discusses Policy Approaches in Public Health, Advancing Health Equity
• PSI & Amref Health Africa Lead Urgent Call for Sanitation Solutions at World Water Week 2024
• ReSurge International: Cleft Myths & Misconceptions: Shared Through the Experiences of Patient, Yashika Goel 
• UC Davis: Study Suggests Gun-Free Zones Do Not Attract Mass Shootings
• UCSF I UC Berkeley: Healthy Diet with Less Sugar Is Linked to Younger Biological Age
• PATH: Improving Care for Moms-to-Be in Bono East
• UCSF‘s Malaria Elimination Initiative Receives New Funding to Advance Elimination Goals
• Sabin Vaccine Institute: The Rising Threat of Measles, Vaccine Hesitancy, & Public Health: Q&A With Sabin Gold Medal Winner Dr. Paul Offit
• PSI: The Role of AI Within the Health & Climate Change Nexus: A Worthy Big Bet
• PHI: A Playbook for New Rural Healthcare Partnership Models of Investment
• Living Goods: Performance Reviews Boost Community Health in Manga District, Burkina Faso
• UC Davis: New Method Tracks How Psychedelics Affect Neurons in Minutes
• UC Davis: The Salmon Diaries: Life Before & After Klamath Dam Removal
• UC Davis: How Plants Become Bushy, or Not
• PHI Study Finds Prenatal Marijuana Use Linked to Serious Risks for Mother During Pregnancy
• PHI Study: Young Adult Retail Purchases of Cannabis in California
• PSI: Expanding on Success: Côte d’Ivoire Renews Seasonal Campaign to Shield Kids from Malaria
• UCSF: Can Smartwatches Help TB Patients Live Longer?
• San Francisco Community Health Center: SF Homeless Sweeps Are Threatening Lives
• PHI Research Assesses Lifetime Prevalence of Secondhand Harms from Alcohol and Drugs
• PHI: The Wall Street Journal: PHI’s Dr. William Kerr Discusses Alcohol and Related Health Risks
• PHI: Study: Racial, Ethnic, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disparities in Local Cannabis Retail Policy in California
• PHI Study Shows that Medicaid Can Improve Health Outcomes for Young Children with Sickle Cell Disease
• PHI: Webinar Recording: Wildfire Smoke Exposure in Kids & How to Mitigate Health Effects
• PHI: Podcast: Saving Lives Through Increased Access to Addiction Treatment with PHI’s CA Bridge
• Watch. 19Labs: Ram Das Interview, The Afternoon Lockdown with Casual & Remix

From Our July 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• UC Berkeley: Tampon Toxic Metal Warning After Scientists Find Lead, Arsenic [Newsweek]
• Stanford: Murder, Birth & Test Scores: What Scientists Are Learning About Extreme Heat [LA Times]
• UC Berkeley: How Air Pollution Is Causing Girls to Get Their First Periods Earlier [BBC]
• PHI: Asthma Boulevard [The Atlantic]
• Meta: Mapping the World’s Forests [Devex Pro]
• UC Berkeley: Urban Wildlife Is Less Diverse in Historically Redlined Neighborhoods, Study Finds [Phys.org]
• UCSF: Bird Flu Landing in the City Is ‘A Blip on the Radar,’ Experts Say [SF Examiner]
• ReSurge International: Measuring the Impact of Training the Trainers: Lessons from Pilots & Plastic Surgeons [SSIR]
• Google‘s Healthcare Strategy & the Role of AI [Medscape]
• Stanford: Covid-19 Vaccine Development as a Model for the Future of Advanced AI Intelligence in Health Care [Politico, 2nd story]
• UC Davis: Neurological Conditions Claim the Lives of Thousands of Children Every Year. New Treatments in the Womb May Save Them [BBC]
• PATH: Malaria Vaccine Rollout to Africa Is a Cautionary Tale [New York Times]
• Stanford: Mosquitos Kill More People than Any Other Creature, the CDC Warns [NPR]
• UNICEF: The Chilean Tree That Could Help Cure Malaria (And a Host of Other Diseases) [The Telegraph]
• PATH: A New Injectable Could Prevent Malaria. What’s Standing in Its Way? [Devex]
• Pathfinder: Village Women Learn Disaster Risk Reduction [The Express Tribune]
• UNICEF: Attacks on Sudan’s Hospitals, Clinics Put Millions at Risk [NPR]
• UNICEF: War Is Lead Cause Behind Huge Drop in Global Vaccinations, UN Warns [The Guardian]
• Stanford: Haunting the Human Genome Project: A Question of Consent [STAT+, Undark]
• Americares Helps Puerto Rico Recover from Natural Disasters, Powerful Storms [ABC7 News]
• Stanford: Nipah Virus Roadmap Offers ‘Way to Move the Ball Forward’ on Drugs, Vaccines, Tests [CIDRAP]
• SF Community Health Center: Marginalized by Medicine: Trans Community Faces Health Care Challenges [CBS News Bay Area]
• ReSurge International: Muskan, Natalia: Symbol of Hope, Resilience [The Rising Nepal Daily]
• Merck‘s RSV Shot Helps Protect Infants in Mid-to-Late Stage Study [Reuters]
• Friends of the Global Fight: Germany Pledges Continued Global AIDS Support Amid Fiscal & Political Pressures [Health Policy Watch]
• Stanford: Older Women Are Different than Older Men. Their Health Is Woefully Understudied. [KFF Health News]
• Watch. UNICEF Chief on the Hunger Crisis Afflicting Millions of Children in Sudan & Gaza [PBS]

More Member News

From Our June 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• UC Davis: New Bird Flu Change Sparks Scientists’ Warning: ‘Be Alert!’ [Newsweek]
• UNICEF: More than 1 in 4 Children Under Age 5 Face ‘Severe’ Food Poverty [France 24]
• Global Health Council: Climate Change to Be Major Focus for WHO in Coming Years [Health Policy Watch]
• Planetary Health Alliance: The American Climate Corps Will Get People into Green Jobs. Can It Help Their Mental Health Too? [Grist]
• Seed Global Health: Opinion I The Pandemic Treaty Will Succeed Only with Investment to Build Strong Health Systems [STAT]
• UCSF: Why Extreme Syphilis Symptoms Are Showing Up Now [The Atlantic]
• Zenysis Technologies: Initiative Launched to End Malaria [Express Tribune]
• PATH: 5 Steps Towards Health Equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through Tailored Innovation [World Economic Forum]
• Ipas Talks About the US Position in the Global Abortion Landscape [NC Health News]
• Gilead Sciences: Innovating for Unmet Health Care Needs [Fortune]
• PHI: Assembly Passes Bill to Require Farmers to Notify County Before Using Pesticides Near Schools [LA Times]
• Seed Global Health Eschews the ‘Arrive-Teach-Leave’ Approach & Invests in Long-Term Healthworker Training in Africa [Health Policy Watch]
• Airbnb I Google I Pfizer: TIME 100 Most Influential Companies 2024 [TIME]
• Simprints: Global Most Loved Workplaces 2024 [Newsweek]
• Merck: HPV Vaccine Provides Real Benefits for Men, Analysis Shows [Reuters]
• Roche Diagnostics: FDA Approval for HPV Self-Collection Solutions [WTHR]
• Merck: FDA Approves Vaccine Designed to Protect Adults from Bacteria That Can Cause Pneumonia, Serious Infections [CNBC]
• Pfizer‘s Paxlovid Tied to 34% Lower Risk of Hospitalization in Adolescent Covid Patients [CIDRAP]
• Pfizer Pill Reduces Progression by 81% for One Rare Type of Lung Cancer [STAT+]
• Merck, Moderna Say Vaccine Improved Survival in Patients with Deadly Skin CancerSay Vaccine Improved Survival in Patients with Deadly Skin Cancer [CNBC]
• UNICEF: New Malaria Vaccine Delivered for the First Time [NPR]
• Seed Global Health‘s Approach to Developing Emergency Medicine in Uganda: Nurturing a New Medical Specialty [Africa Health]
• Roche Diagnostics‘ Molecular Respiratory Virus Panel Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization [360dx]
• Stanford I UCSF: Covid Is Coming for Calif., and It’s Already Hitting the Bay Area the Hardest [SF Gate]

More Member News

From Our May 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Google Says Alphafold 3 Can Map a Vast Universe of Biomolecules [STAT+]
• Pfizer I Stanford Albert Bourla & Jenna Forsyth Named to Time’s 100 in Health [Time Magazine]
• UC Davis: The Next Mass Extinction? [The New York Review]
• Mastercard Foundation: Lessons from Africa for Future Proofing Global Health [Think Global Health]
• Stanford I UCSF: The Smartest Computers Are Theirs to Use [Politico]
• ReSurge International: A New Model of Global Reconstructive Surgery Training with Reduced Carbon Footprint of Outreach [JAMA Network]
• Living Goods: State Accelerates Digital Transformation of Healthcare [The Standard]
• UNICEF: Violence Is Traumatizing Haitian Kids. Now the Country’s Breaking a Taboo on Mental Health Services [AP]
• HealthAI: The Regulator’s Dilemma [About Digital Health]
• Africa Health Business Executive Chair Addresses Health Investments Conference in Lagos [The Guardian Nigeria]
• Mastercard Foundation: A Conversation with CEO Reeta Roy [Devex]
• World Telehealth Initiative: Connecting Doctors to Underserved Communities & Career Fulfillment Across the Globe [Montecito Journal]
• Google’s Medical AI Destroys GPT’s Benchmark & Outperforms Doctors [New Atlas]
• Gilead I Merck: Long-Acting Drugs May Revolutionize HIV Prevention & Treatment [New York Times]
• Merck Raises 2024 Profit Forecast on Surging Sales of Cancer Drug Keytruda [Reuters]
• Pfizer Is Granted FDA Approval for Cervical Cancer Drug [Reuters]
• UC Davis: Lyme Disease Is Spreading. Why Don’t We Have Drugs to Stop It? [New York Times]
• Stanford: AI & Facial Recognition Dive Into Global Health Care [Think Global Health]
• Living Goods: Kenya’s Path To Ending Malaria Lies In Renewed Commitment to Primary Health Care, Mass Vaccination, Opinion [Citizen Digital]
• Stanford: ‘CHATGPT for CRISPR’ Creates New Gene-Editing Tools [Nature]
• UNICEF: Climate Crisis & Food Insecurity Are Driving Anemia in India [Devex]
• Ipas: The Climate Crisis Is a Sexual Health & Reproductive Rights Emergency [Salon]
• Stanford: What’s Worse for Disease Spread: Animal Loss, Climate Change or Urbanization? [NPR]
• UC Berkeley I UCSF: Who’s Dying Now? Here’s How Recent Covid Deaths Compare to the Early Months of the Pandemic in California [Mercury News]
• Stanford I UC Berkeley I UCSF: If You’re the Rare Person Who Hasn’t Had COVID, Are You a Super-Dodger? [San Francisco Chronicle]
• Watch. Zenysis: How Data Can Help Us Protect Zero-Dose Children [BBC]
• Watch. Google: Processing X-Rays Using Artificial Intelligence Could Help Speed Up Disease Diagnosis [BBC]
• Listen. UC Davis: How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu? [Scientific American]

More Member News

• PATH’s Neha Agarwal: Hope, Despair, Gratitude, & Guilt—Reflections as My Son Turns 5
• UC Berkeley: Exposure to Wildfire Smoke During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Preterm Birth
• GHTC Provides Recommendations for World Health Assembly at HHS Stakeholder Listening Session
• Merck Announces New Global Grants to Improve Maternal Health Care in Eastern Europe
• DNDi: GHIT Fund Renews Support to Optimize Novel Compounds to Treat Chagas Disease
• Stanford: Lives on the Line
• Planetary Health Alliance’s Roadmap & Action Plan
• UNICEF: Significant Increase in Number of Children Killed Across Ukraine This Year, as Deadly Attacks Continue
• Living Goods: Bridging the Gap: Community Health Workers Leading the Fight Against Malaria
• Stanford: Data Is a Neighbor, Not a Number
• BCG: Improving Health Equity with Patient Analytics
• Fistula Foundation | UCSF: The Agonizing Reality of Obstetric Fistula
• UCGHI: Amplifying Asian Immigrant Women Voices Through a Study on Sexual & Reproductive Health Experiences
• UC Berkeley: New Study Differentiates Perinatal Risks of COVID-19 Infection from Pandemic Era Societal Changes
• PHI: Local Leaders Have the Solutions: Why Aren’t We Funding Them?
• UNICEF Ensures Thousands Have Safe Drinking Water in Haiti
• Cross-Border Impact Ventures Announces Acquisition of Portfolio Company Sonio by Samsung Medison
• Cross-Border Impact Ventures Portfolio Company Daye’s Novel At-Home STI Screen
• Cross-Border Impact Ventures Selected to the ImpactAssets 50 2024 as an Emerging Impact Manager for Fourth Year
• BCG: How Biopharma Can Make a Difference in Health Equity
• Stanford: 5 Questions with Amanda Marr Chung
• PSI: Men, Too
• Planetary Health Alliance: May 2024 Newsletter
• Stanford: An Earth Day Call to Action for Human & Planetary Health
• UC Berkeley: Collaboration Is Key to Pioneering Research with Youth Experiencing Homelessness
• PATH: Photo Diary: A Day in the Life of Malaria Mosquito Collectors
• PATH: Reaching the Unreached: Ending Malaria Through Health Care for All
• Roche Diagnostics: FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation to Blood-Based Alzheimer’s Biomarker Assay
• GAIA Global Health 2023 Annual Report
• ReSurge International: Scaling Surgical Training in Ethiopia with Proximie
• ReSurge International Mourns Passing of Founder
• PHI: San Francisco Overdose Deaths Declined: Community Programs Helping to Save Lives
• PHI: Policy Win Ensures Healthier Housing for California Renters
• JSI: Promoting Immunization & Preventing Cervical Cancer Through Social & Behavior Change Communication in Nigeria
• GHTC: Big Shots: Five Vaccines in Development to Watch in 2024
• PATH: Can Gender Equity Increase the Number of Children Vaccinated?
• JSI: Humanly Possible: Building a Strong Future for Immunization
• Simprints Named of Three Lipman Family Prize 2024 Winners
• OPHID’s Innovative T-MIS System Receives USAID’s Digi Award
• Nivi Selected in Chat for Impact GenAI Accelerator by Turn.io & OpenAI
• YLabs’ CEO Recognized as a Top 50 Digital Health Leader
• JSI Recognized by 2024 Indigo Design Awards
• 19 Labs: Celebrating Three Years of Transformative Telemedicine in Oaxaca, Mexico
• PHI: Local Leaders Have the Solutions: Why Aren’t We Funding Them?
• PHI: San Francisco Overdose Deaths Declined: Community Programs Helping to Save Lives
• PHI: Mackinac Straits Hospital and St. Ignace Tribal Health Clinic, St. Ignace, MI
• PHI: Promoting Sustainable, Regenerative Practices in California’s Meat Production
• PHI: Expanding Access to Advanced Illness Care in California’s Communities of Color
• PHI: Providing Free Air Cleaners & Asthma Education to Address Health Disparities
• PHI: Rise Up Girl Leaders Combat Child Marriage in Malawi
• PHI: Preparing Community-Based Organizations with Media Advocacy Skills to Advance Green Space Equity
• PHI: Building a Pipeline of Community Care Navigators to Support People with Advanced Illnesses and their Caregivers
• PHI: Elevating Latino Voices, Experiences & Perspectives in News Coverage About Racial Justiceity
• PHI: Amplifying Community Voices to Enhance SNAP-Ed Programming in Georgia
• PHI: Building the Bridge: How Public Health and Community Development Can Work Together to Advance Shared Health and Racial Equity Goals
• Listen. Stanford I Seed Global Health: WHO Special Envoy Kerry on Climate Change as a Global Health Crisis, Minor Consult Podcast
• Listen. PSI: Interview with Alison Malmqvist on Climate Change with Scott Amyx Podcast
• Listen. Planetary Health Alliance: To Protect Human Health, We Must Protect the Earth’s Health, Public Health on Call Podcast
• Listen. WHO Tech Task Force’s Andy Pattison: AI for Health: Promise & Perils, African Health Ventures Podcast
• Listen: PHI’s FACES: How Investing in Youth Can Transform the Healthcare System, HHREC Podcast
• Listen. PHI: Episode 9: Racism is a Public Health Crisis with Oussama Mokeddem
• Listen. PHI: S6 Ep 3 – From the Rice Fields of California One Sees the Future of Agriculture
• Watch. Seed Global Health: Addressing Climate & Health: A Global Perspective, National Academy of Medicine
• Watch. PHI: Developing Effective Protocols to Protect Farmworkers from Heat Illness in Polytunnels
• Watch. PSI: What Is One Health?
• Watch. PSI Experts on Emerging Health Trends
• Watch. PHI: Webinar Recording: Developing Effective Protocols to Protect Farmworkers from Heat Illness in Polytunnels

From Our April 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Maya Health Alliance: Modernizing Traditional Maternal Care in Guatemala [Think Global Health]
• UC Davis: Bird Flu Jumped to Cows, Then to a Human. Should We Be Worried? [Vox]
• UC Berkeley: What Brussels Can Teach California About AI [Politico]
• Viamo: ‘Ask Viamo Anything’ Combines AI with Basic Mobile Calls to Bring Next Billion Online [Yahoo Finance]
• Viamo: No Smartphone or Internet? No Problem; AI-Backed Phone Has the Answers [Reuters]
• HealthAI Launches Global Community of Practice [Health Policy Watch]
• UCSF: Covid’s Scientific Silver Lining: A Chance to Watch the Human Immune System Respond in Real Time [STAT]
• UNICEF: Local Doesn’t Mean Low Cost: Serum Institute Shares Global Scale-Up Plans [Devex]
• UC Davis: Scientists in Antarctica Track ‘Baffling’ Virus That Could Decimate Penguins & Other Polar Animals [Science]
• Sabin Vaccine Institute I UNICEF: WHO & Gavi’s Global Push for HPV Vaccines Gathers Momentum [Devex]
• Merck to Test Single-Dose Regimen of HPV Vaccine Gardasil 9 [Reuters]
• Gilead Sciences Antiviral Drug Shows Promise as a Treatment for Ebola Sudan [STAT]
• UNICEF: Malaria Vaccine Rollout Shines Light on Value of Renewable Power [Reuters]
• Mastercard Foundation: The Top 10 Foundations Funding Development [Devex Pro]
• AbbVie | Accenture | Mastercard | Merck Named on Fortune 100’s Best Companies to Work For [Fortune]
• PHI: Why Are So Many Young People Getting Cancer? What the Data Say [Nature]
• Stanford: Neurological Illness & National Security: Lessons to Be Learned [JAMA]
• GHTC: Report: $46B US Investment in Global Health Generates ‘Blockbuster Returns’ [CIDRAP]
• Cross-Border Impact Ventures: Women Have Been ‘Left Out of Medical Devices,’ Say Experts Amid Bias Concerns [Femtech World]
• Gilead Sciences: How It’s Funding the Fight Against Health Disparities [Fast Company]
• Pfizer: Combination Antibiotic Gets Boost from European Regulators [CIDRAP]
• Tiba Foundation: Supporting FIGS to Make Vital Care More Accessible to Professionals & Patients Alike [Forbes]
• SF Community Health Center to Honor Anthony Fauci at Annual Fundraiser [ABC-TV]
• Roche Diagnostics‘ Alzheimer’s Blood Test Nabs FDA Breakthrough Tag [Fierce Biotech]
• Pfizer RSV Shot Meets Goals in Trial of High-Risk Adults Under Age 60 [Reuters]
• Merck Drug for Rare Cardiovascular Condition Approved in US [STAT]
• UNICEF: Drought Fuels Hunger & Disease in Zimbabwe [Health Policy Watch]
• Watch. Seed Global Health: Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency [The Atlantic]

More Member News

• UCSF: Payam Nahid Named Executive Director, Institute for Global Health Sciences
• ReSurge International at the United Nations
• Friends of the Global Fight: Global Health, Civil Society & Private Sector Stakes: Preserving Civic Space at Risk in Healthcare
• Stanford: Artificial Intelligence in Health, Health Care, & Biomedical Science: An AI Code of Conduct Principles & Commitments Discussion Draft
• UC Berkeley: Three Fixes for AI’s Bias Problem
• WHO Unveils a Digital Health Promoter Harnessing Generative AI for Public Health
• UCSF Launches Health Informatics Hub
• PATH: Investing in Community Health with Digital Tools
• UC Berkeley: Climate Change, Pollution, & Collapsing Biodiversity Are Damaging Our Immune Systems
• Planetary Health Alliance Partners in the Connecting Climate Minds Hub
• Planetary Health Alliance Welcomed by Johns Hopkins University
• Planetary Health Alliance Newsletter
• Americares: Wildfires & Climate Change — What Do We Know?
• Americares: Floods & Climate Change – What Do We Know?
• Global Health Corps: Same Mission, Evolved Approach: 2024 Program Update
• GHTC: March (Budget) Madness: Stagnant Spending Package & Muted Budget Request Point to Uphill Battle Ahead
• CUGH: Advocating for a Safer, Healthier World Safe from Pandemics
• Friends of the Global Fight Report: Expanding the HIV Response to Drive Broad-Based Health Gains
• Baraka Impact Finance: Clarity in Complexity: Streamlining Impact Measurement for Health Enterprises
• MedShare Joins Forces with Amazon and Operation Smile to Help Address Malnutrition in Children with Cleft Conditions
• SF Community Health Center: Gilead Sciences Awards Grant to Advance Health Equity Efforts for Black Transgender Women & Girls
• UCGHI: The One Health Workforce Academies Creates Global Academic Connections in an Interdependent World
• CUGH‘s 15th Annual Conference Post-Conference Materials
• Accenture I Chevron I Merck Named Among Best Employers; Receive Excellence in Health & Well-Being Award
• YLabs 2023 Annual Report
• PATH: Is HPV Vaccination Cost Effective?
• Sabin Vaccine Institute: The Other Fight of the Yungueña Coca Farmers: Debunking the Myths About the Papilloma Vaccine
• JSI: Integrating Cervical Cancer Services into HIV Treatment and Care Activities in Zambia
• Stanford: CoviDB: Making Meaning Out of Chaos
• PSI: Lessons from Advancing Malaria Management
• 19Labs: Why Healthcare Kiosks Fail & Ideas to Fix Them: Insights from Industry Leaders
• PSI: Market Shaping Improves Access to Critical Health Products – GHMS 2024
• MedShare: Innovation from Lessons Learned Drives Support of Free & Charitable Clinics
• Cepheid Announces WHO Prequalification of Xpert HIV-1 Qualitative Test
• PHI: Word on the Street: Kenyan Women Share Their Reproductive Health Stories
• Living Goods: Advancing Community Health in Kenya: Insights from the CHU4UHC Co-Creation Workshop
• Living Goods: Community Health Workers Leading Change in Burkina Faso
• Stanford, Digital Medic: Together Towards Tomorrow: Collaborative Design for Community Health Worker Training
• JSI: Lead, Manage, Govern: Health Leaders in Laos Collaborate for Improved Maternal and Child Health
• Hesperian Health Guides: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador
• Mastercard Foundation Partners to Revolutionise Mental Health Support for Students in Africa
• PATH: Five Things You Need to Know About the World’s Latest Weapon Against Bacterial Meningitis
• PHI: National RESPOND Study Takes Closer Look at Health Disparities in Prostate Cancer for African American Men
• PHI: What Data Says About Rising Cancer Rates Among Younger People
• CCBRT CEO Receives Leadership Award at the 2024 Malkia wa Nguvu Awards
• UCSF: Delivering Humanitarian Health Care for Migrants at the US-Mexico Border
• PSI: In Supporting Healthcare Workers, a Little Empathy Goes a Long Way
• JSI: Supporting Primary Health Workforce with Technology & Automation
• Merck Continues the Fight Against Schistosomiasis in a Storytelling Lab
• Gilead Sciences Statement on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act
• ReSurge International’s Pioneering Women of Reconstructive Surgery Program
• PATH: Inclusive Health Solutions: Insights from Raisina 2024
• Roche Diagnostics Receives FDA Approval for the First Molecular Test to Screen for Malaria in Blood Donors
• Fistula Foundation: The Economic Impact of Untreated Obstetric Fistula
• Ipas: Transforming Abortion Stigma in Nepal: One Provider’s Story
• Medicines360 Appoints Erica Rogers to Board of Directors
• UC Berkeley Researchers Secure $3.1M NIH Grant to Combat Dengue Fever in Peru
• UNICEF: Global Deployment of Rapid Diagnostic Tests to Boost Fight Against Cholera
• BCG: Biopharma’s Role in Achieving Health Equity
• JSI: Helping Health Centers Assess Workforce Well-Being
• PHI: Rise Up Leaders Address Gender Equity Challenges in California
• PHI: National RESPOND Study Takes Closer Look at Health Disparities in Prostate Cancer for African American Men
• PHI: Alegria De La Cruz: a Weaver and a Warrior for Equity and Justice
• PHI: Study Finds Closing Bars Early Reduced Crime in Baltimore Neighborhood
• PHI’s Mei Kwong Discusses Telehealth Policy Changes to Expect by End-of-Year Deadline
• PHI: Supporting Regenerative Beef for a More Healthy, Equitable Food System
• Listen. Ipas: From a Hub & Spoke to a Horizontal Network Model, NGO Soul & Strategy Podcast
• Watch. Viamo Ghana Launches Gen AI to Promote Timely Delivery of Solutions
• Watch. Nivi: The Road to Cervical Cancer Elimination Webinar
• Watch. Maya Health Alliance’s Anne Kraemer on Results Webinar Panel
• Watch. Simprints. Integrating AI to Improve Frontline Healthcare Delivery Webinar
• Watch. Simprints & Ghana Health Service: Strengthening the Local Routine Immunization Program
• Watch. Seed Global Health: Impacts of Climate Change on Global Public Health
• Watch. UCGHI: ICYMI, Global Health Day
• Watch. UC Davis: Combatting Avian Influenza

From Our March 2024 Connections Newsletter

  Members in the Media

• Google I Stanford I UCSF I UC Berkeley: Federal Regulators, Scrambling to Keep Up with AI in Health Care, Team Up with Industry to Set Standards [STAT]
• Stanford: AI Health Care Companies Say They’ll Keep Humans in the Loop. But What Does That Actually Mean? [STAT]
• Seed Global Health: 5 Ways to Strengthen Health Systems in the Face of Climate Change [Devex]
• Seed Global Health: Zambia’s Cholera Outbreak Rings Warning Bells on Climate Change [Think Global Health]
• UC Davis: California Wildlife Is Vulnerable to an Avian Flu ‘Apocalypse.’ What Is Driving the Spread? [LA Times]
• UNICEF: Famine ‘Wonder Pill’ Could Turn the Tide Against Childhood Malnutrition [The Telegraph]
• UNICEF: Death Stalks Children in Gaza as Famine Looms, Life-Saving Aid Denied [VOA]
• Pfizer Says Its RSV Shot Is Protective Through a Second Year [Reuters]
• PATH: Efforts Against Flu Show Developing Nations Can Make Vaccines  [Think Global Health]
• UCSF I UC Berkeley I Stanford: Meet the Fetal Surgeon Forging CRISPR’s Next Frontier: Curing Diseases in the Womb [STAT]
• Viamo Partners with Solidaridad to Provide Digital Power to Farmers & Workers [3News]
• UCSF: Tennessee Vaccine Law Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health [NBC News]
• UCSF I Stanford: Diana Greene Foster, Grace Lee, Ida Sim Named to 2024 STAT Status List [STAT]
• Stanford: Assessing Gain-of-Function’s Cost-Benefit [Politico]
• PHI: California Program That Steers Drug Users to Treatment Is Threatened by Unstable Funding [SF Chronicle]
• UNICEF, World Bank, Gates Commit Nearly $600M to Fight Cervical Cancer [Devex]
• UNICEF: Female Genital Mutilation Survivors Increase to More Than 230M [France 24]
• UCSF: Diet Drinks May Boost Risk of Dangerous Heart Condition by 20%, Study Says [CNN]
• PATH I WHO: Gates Foundation’s Top 10 Health Grant Winners [Devex Pro]
• UC Davis: Scientists Tracked the Love Songs of Skywalker Gibbons to Find Them [Popular Science]
• Americares Donates 500 Tons of Medicine, Millions in Emergency Funding to Ukraine [Stamford Advocate]
• Vir Biotechnology‘s Dr. Phil Pang Will Step Down as Chief Medical Officer [Yahoo! Finance]
• AbbVie Taps Robert Michael to Replace Gonzalez as CEO in July [Reuters]
• Chevron Places 10th on Fortune 500 List [Fortune]

More Member News

• UC Berkeley Center Aims to Create Healthcare Innovation Research-to-Impact Pipeline
• Stanford I UCSF: A Turning Point in Nigeria’s Fight Against Cervical Cancer
• Nivi‘s HPV Awareness Odyssey: The Road to Cervical Cancer Elimination
• PSI: Youth-Powered Learnings for Contraceptive Programming
• Ipas: Local Groups in Nigeria Lead the Way for Inclusive Abortion Care
• JSI: Better Data for Better Decisions: Building Health Information Systems with Women’s Perspectives
• PSI: Empowered & Thriving: One Woman’s Enduring Journey with HIV
• PHI: Public Health Primer: Engaging Community Development for Health Equity
• BCG: Making Medtech More Equitable
• 19Labs‘ Revolutionary Journey Towards Health Equity
• PHI: Strengthening the Capacity of Local Health Departments & Partners to Advance Equity
• Baraka Impact Finance: Sophisticated Financing & Smarter Partnerships: How Investors Are Forging New Roadmaps for Health Impact
• Cross-Border Impact Ventures & Partners Launch the Association for Emerging Impact Investment Managers
• Gilead Sciences Announces Funding Initiative to Support HIV Prevention, Anti-Stigma & Health Equity Efforts for Black Cisgender & Transgender Women & Girls in the US
• Roche Diagnostics Partners with PathAI to Develop AI-Powered Companion Diagnostics
• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Department of Defense Transitions Legacy Special Immunization Program to Commercial Partners
• HealthAI Joins Transform Health in Urging G20 Leaders to Prioritize Key Action Areas in Advancing Digital Health Transformation
• JSI: Making Way for Medicines
• PHI‘s Dr. Paul English Discusses How California Can Better Protect Vulnerable Communities from Climate Change
• UC Berkeley: Wildfire Smoke Disproportionately Affects California’s Indigenous Communities, New Research Shows
• UC Davis: Invasive Plant Time Bombs: A Hidden Ecological Threat
• UC Davis: Plant Biologists Identify Promising New Fungicides
• UC Davis: Avian Influenza Virus Is Adapting to Spread to Marine Mammals
• BCG: How Public-Health Leaders Can Fight the Next Pandemic
• Global Health Technologies Coalition: WHO Product Review Process Set for Improvements, but More Sweeping Reforms Could be a Game Changer
• Street Business School: Partnering for Success: Supporting Organizations Working to Reduce Child Institutionalization
• PATH Partners with CN Hilton Foundation to Promote Child Development Services in Facilities & Communities
• ReSurge International Study Unveils the First-Ever Framework for Quantifying the Generational Impact of Surgical Training
• BCG: Embedding Health Equity into the Heart of Biopharma
• UC Berkeley: Increasing Social Impact on Public Health Campuses
• JSI Selected to Strengthen Supply Chains for Neglected Tropical Diseases
• PSI: Will 2024 Be the Year of Responsible AI?
• Viamo: Breaking Barriers in Digital Inclusion with GenAI
• PHI: Healthy Places Index Helps Community Members Identify Funding Priorities in Marin County’s Under-Resourced Neighborhoods
• ReSurge International: Dr. Vinita Puri Is Mending Lives
• Americares Delivers Over 500 Tons of Medicine & Supplies to Ukraine
• Nivi Partners with Leading Online Pharmacy TATA 1mg in India
• BCG: Ramping Up Vaccine Manufacturing in Africa
• Stanford Center for Biodesign 2023 Annual Report
• Planetary Health Alliance Year in Review
• Living Goods: 2023 Year-End Report
• Living Goods’ CEO Role Transition
• Ipas: 2023 Research Highlights
• SF Community Health Center: March 2024 Advocacy, Policy, & Election Updates
• ReSurge International: Local Action for Global Impact: 2023 Annual Report
• Simprints Makes Flexa100 List
• PHI: Charting a Course For Future Public Health Leaders
• PHI: Strengthening the Capacity of Local Health Departments and Partners to Advance Equity
• PHI: Building the Capacity of Hospital Emergency Departments to Improve Response to the Opioid Crisis
• PHI: Fostering Leadership Pathways to Create a Growing, Stronger Public Health Workforce
• PHI: ARG Research Team Examines Tobacco-Free Policies at Community Colleges
• PHI: Together Toward Equity Fellowship Blog: Reflections on Leadership Development, Community, Health & Equity
• PHI: Podcast: Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott: An Inspiring Indigenous Millennial Working to Heal our Land Through Stewardship
• Listen. Stanford Medcast Podcast with Michele Barry: Women in Medicine
• Listen. 19Labs: Innovative Healthcare Solutions in Guyana & Latin America, Ram Fish, Pt. 1, Pt. 2 on Voices of Healthcare Equity Podcast
• Watch. ReSurge International: Empowering Change: Impact & Partnership Potential in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Watch. Stanford: Global Health Faculty in Focus: Dr. Christine Ngaruiya on Mentorship in Global Health
• Watch. Seed Global Health: Bridging Climate Change & Global Health, CSIS
• Watch. Seed Global Health: Vanessa Kerry Keynote, Climate & Health Conference
• Watch. Pfizer I UC Davis: Ready Next Time? Preparing for Another Pandemic at Aspen Ideas

From Our February 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Gilead Sciences I SF Community Health Center: Company’s Evolution & Commitment to the Bay Area [SF Business Times]
• Stanford: Scientists Found a Major Clue Why 4 of 5 Autoimmune Patients Are Women [Washington Post]
• UCSF: Condition Affecting at Least 1 in 10 Women Linked with Cognitive Decline, Study Finds [CNN]
• PATH: Expediting Access to the Tuberculosis Vaccine [Think Global Health]
• L.E.K. Consulting: Which Health Areas are Impacted by Climate Change & Where Is More Guidance Needed? [World Economic Forum]
• Seed Global Health: Building Climate-Resilient Systems for Health & Food Security [Health Policy Watch]
• PHI: Can Prescriptions for Produce-Focused Meal Kits Fight Diabetes? [Civil Eats]
• UNICEF: How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen [Undark]
• Eleanor Crook Foundation: Wasting in a World of Plenty | Opinion [Newsweek]
• HealthAI: Interview with Ricardo Baptista Leite, “Machine Learning Can Help Us Reconquer Compassion & Humanisation of Healthcare”  [Health Tech Newspaper]
• Global Health Council: The Campaign to Recognize Noma as an NTD: How Inclusion Can Drive Research to Prevent & Treat the Disease [Health Policy Watch]
• Stanford I UCSF: Inside One Deadly Week in San Francisco’s Deadliest Year [SF Chronicle]
• Tiba Foundation‘s New Matibabu Operating Theater Opened by Ambassador Meg Whitman [Citizen Digital]
• Fistula Foundation: Nonprofit Puts Life-Saving Surgeries in Reach for Women [Philanthropy]
• Upswell: Applying Behavioural Science in Nigeria’s HPV Vaccination Campaign [Nigeria Health Watch]
• UNICEF: Why Indian NGOs Are Enlisting Faith Leaders as Health Advocates [Devex]
• UC Berkeley I UCSF: What California’s New Covid Isolation Rules Mean for You [SF Examiner]
• PATH: Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: The Dangers of Donated Medical Devices [Devex]
• PHI I UC Berkeley: Electric School Buses Are a Breath of Fresh Air for Children [Grist]
• Stanford I UCSF: Why TB Cases Are Rising in California After Decades of Decline [Mercury News]
• UNICEF: It’s No Surprise There’s a Global Measles Outbreak. But the Numbers Are ‘Staggering’ [NPR]
• AbbVie I Merck I Pfizer Named Among Most Admired Companies for 2024 [Fortune]
• Airbnb I Gilead Sciences I UC Berkeley I UCSF I Vir Biotechnology Make the Power 100 List [SF Business Times]
• Accenture I Gilead Sciences I Mastercard I Merck Named to 2024 Just 100 Rankings [CNBC]

More Member News

• PATH: Four Opportunities for Global Health in 2024
• Friends of the Global Fight: Why We Invest in International Assistance & Global Health
• ReSurge International I Stanford: Global Engagement Supports First-of-Its-Kind Workshop in Ethiopia
• PHI: Hidden Inequities: Intersectional Study Uncovers Stark Disparities in Substance Use Treatment Completion Among Women of Color
• Meta Partners with Center for Open Science to Share Data to Study Well-Being Topics
• Stanford: The Power of Perceived Expertise in Health Communication
• Global Fund for Women‘s New CEO Announces Its New Strategic Plan, #InMotion
• Watsi: 2023 Impact Report
• Seed Global Health: Partnership with Foundation S to Advance Climate Resilience in Malawi & Zambia
• OmniVis: My Journey: Uniting Passion with Purpose in Food Safety
• Eleanor Crook Foundation & Helen Keller Intl Announce Partnership with Senegal’s Ministry of Health to Combat Child Wasting
• UCSF: Could Bizarre Visual Symptoms Be a Telltale Sign of Alzheimer’s?
• UC Berkeley Study Shows That Hospitals Impose Major Price Markups on Cancer & Other Specialty Drugs
• UC Berkeley: More Than 900 Chemicals, Many Found in Consumer Products & the Environment, Display Breast Cancer-Causing Traits
• UC Davis: Researchers Identify Protein Linked to Metastasis in Pancreatic Cancer
• PSI: Taking on Cervical Cancer by Integrating Family Planning in Mozambique
• Medicines360 Announces Strategic Partnership to Expand Access to the Avibela Hormonal IUD
• World Telehealth Initiative‘s Collaboration with Teladoc to Provide Care in Ukraine
• Global Health Technologies Coalition: Dr. Kristie Mikus Named as New Executive Director
• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Single-Dose Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Safe & Effective for Kids 6 Months & Older
• PATH: Almost 50 Years of Engaging Users in Global Health Innovation
• UNICEF: Putting Survivors at the Forefront of the Global Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation
• Planetary Health Alliance January Newsletter
• Living Goods: MoH Kenya Fast Tracks Implementation of the Revitalized CHP Program
• UC Davis: Catastrophic Mortality of Elephant Seals in Argentina Identified as Outbreak of Avian Influenza
• UC Davis Establishes Bird Flight Research Center
• Stanford: Infectious Diseases Team Aims to Curb Neglected Parasitic Disease
• Global Fund for Women: Supporting Abortion Rights in West & Central Africa
• Stanford: Equipping Doctors to Save Lives When Resources Are Scarce
• ReSurge International: The Road to Recovery: Surviving a Road Accident in Tanzania
• Americares Joins the CMA CGM Foundation’s Containers of Hope Program
• PATH: How Does Human Milk Banking Help Ensure Child Health?
• ReSurge International Announces Matolase Mtonga Scholarship Winners
• World Telehealth Initiative Named Anthem Health Innovation Award Winner
• Airbnb Community Fund Grants Awarded to 120+ Nonprofits Around the World
• PHI: Learning & Leadership Circle Strengthens Global Health Professionals’ Skills
• PHI: Episode 8: Domestic Violence, Guns, and United States v. Rahimi with Michael Rodriguez and Jennifer White
• PHI: S6 Ep1 – Rick Clark, a Large-Scale Midwestern Regenerative Organic Farmer from Indiana
• PHI: Disparities in AA Attendance Among Americans with Substance Use Disorders
• PHI: Preparing Advocates With Research-Based Strategies to Advance Housing Justice and Health Equity
• PHI: STAR Plays Critical Role in Implementing and Maintaining Rapid, Global Response to COVID
• PHI: Fostering Leadership Pathways to Create a Growing, Stronger Public Health Workforce
• PHI: Podcast | “Not Designed for Health” with PHI’s Steve Downs
• Watch. Eleanor Crook Foundation. Meet the Farm Hand: Lesly Weber McNitt
• Watch. Planetary Health Alliance. Human Health Depends on Planetary Health
• Watch. JSI. Global Health Security – A Solidarity Perspective
• Watch. Seed Global Health. When Climate Impacts Your Health Panel with Dr Vanessa Kerry, Davos 2024
• Watch. PSI: Let’s Talk About Her Health
• Watch. PSI: Health Impact Amidst Climate Change
• Watch. Baraka Impact Finance Launches Baraka Analytics Pilot: Curated Impact Investment Opportunities in Emerging & Frontier Markets

From Our January 2024 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• UCSF: Pregnant Cancer Patients Often Have to Terminate. Abortion Pill Restrictions Could Make That Choice Even Harder [STAT]
• Stanford: Bottled Water Contains Thousands of Nanoplastics, New Study Shows. How Can You Avoid Them? [Yahoo! Life]
• Merck-Moderna Vaccine Cuts Odds of Skin Cancer Recurrence in Half, Study Finds [CBS]
• Sabin Vaccine Institute: The HPV Vaccine Is a Cancer Moonshot. Why Then Is Uptake So Low? Opinion [Devex]
• Americares I PATH I UNICEF Among America’s Top 100 Charities [Forbes]
• UNICEF: New UN Resolution Aims to Fix Health Facilities Worldwide [Devex]
• Friends of the Global Fight I Global Health Council: America Is Retreating from Global Health Leadership at the Worst Possible Time [Vox]
• UC Davis: Spread of Avian Flu in North Bay Could Be Disastrous for Future of Poultry Farmers [CBS News]
• Seed Global Health: The Climate Crisis Is Driving a Global Public Health Emergency, Opinion [Devex]
• PHI: Excessive Heat & Air Pollution Are Putting Farmworkers’ Lives at Risk [Mother Jones]
• UC Berkeley I UCSF: New Year’s Risk? San Jose Experiencing 3rd Highest Covid Wave Right Now, Wastewater Shows [Mercury News]
• UCSF: Everyone in the Bay Area Seems Sick. Should You Worry About Long Covid? [Mercury News]
• Stanford: Coronavirus FAQ: My Partner/Roommate/Kid Got COVID. And I Didn’t. How Come? [NPR]
• UC Davis: Encounter with Humpback Whales Reveals Potential for Nonhuman Intelligence Communication [Science X/Phys.org]
• Sabin Vaccine Institute I UNICEF: ‘Cranky Uncle’ Game Tackles Vaccine Hesitancy [MedicalBrief]
• Pfizer: More Patients Are Getting Their Meds Online. Big Pharma Wants in on the Action [STAT+]
• Seed Global Health: Big Pledges Won’t Solve Our Climate & Health Crisis if Those Who Need the Money Can’t Access It, Opinion [Inside Philanthropy]
• Hopelab: Funders Must Help Youth Respond to Climate Change [Alliance News]
• Planetary Health Alliance: The Increased Burden of Global Environmental Change on HIV/AIDS Morbidities & Mortality Among Farmers in Mufindi District, Iringa Region, Tanzania [Medium]
• Seed Global Health: How the Dire Health Implications of Climate Change Are Unfolding Globally [Inside Climate News]
• UC Davis: What Makes Cheddar Cheese Taste So Good? [Smithsonian Magazine]
• Listen. Seed Global Health. Climate Is a Public Health Emergency. Living on Earth Podcast [PRX]

More Member News

• PATH I UCSF: WHO Grants Prequalification to Innovative Polio Vaccine, NOPV2, as Nearly 1B Doses Are Administered
• Stanford: It’s Time to Share Our Failures
• Google I Accenture: MedLM: Generative AI Fine-Tuned for the Healthcare Industry
• UCSF: In Patients with Long Covid, Immune Cells Don’t Follow the Rules
• Chevron: Forbes & Newsweek Rank Chevron a Top Workplace
• JSI Awarded USAID NextGen Health Supply Chain IDIQ Contract
• YLabs CEO Transition News
• Americares Mobilizes Over 15 Tons of Medical Aid for Israel & Gaza
• HealthAI‘s Organizational Strategy
• Meta: Digital Activism: Transforming Social Movements & Humanitarianism
• PATH & CEPI Strengthen Partnership to Accelerate Development of Vaccines Against Diseases of Epidemic or Pandemic Potential
• Friends of the Global Fight: The Global Fund’s Unique Contribution to Universal Health Coverage & Stronger Health Systems: Community Health Workers Are Critical, Webinar Panelists Say
• Maya Health Alliance: The Healing Power of Connection: Ana María’s Diabetes Journey
• Stanford: How an International Collaboration Aims to Reduce Deadly Brain Bleeds in Brazilian Babies
• UC Berkeley: Dr. Sandra McCoy & Partners Secure $6M to Study HIV Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
• UC Davis: Researchers Step Closer to Mimicking Nature’s Mastery of Chemistry
• PHI: We Are All Public Health: How Public Health Systems Can Support Community Resiliency
• Street Business School as a Partner for Those with Disabilities
• Simprints: HBS Case Study: Toby Norman: Is Passion Enough for Simprints to Thrive?
• JSI: Community Myth Busters Clarify Covid-19 Vaccination
• Ipas: Reproductive Health Is Suffering After Nepal’s Recent Earthquake
• PSI: Digital Campaigns Accelerate COVAX Adoption – Lessons Learned in Sierra Leone
• PSI: Why Is UHC So Important?
• PHI: Farmworkers Document the Health Impacts of Climate Change & Growing Need to Advance Health Equity, Climate Justice
• PHI: Programs in San Francisco Offer Overdose Response Training for Youth & Community Members to Help Save Lives
• PHI: California Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System Factsheet: Pregnancy-Related Mortality, 2018–2020
• Pathfinder International: Youth Health & Empowerment—Focus of Two New Pathfinder Projects in Africa
• Planetary Health Alliance December Newsletter
• Watsi: Why Watsi?
• UCSF: Road to Rejuvenation
• Fistula Foundation: Former Smile Train Leader Joins Fistula Foundation
  to Accelerate Growth in Africa
• UC Global Health Institute: Dr. Rohan Radhakrishna Connects Local Californian Health to Global Health
• UC Berkeley I UCSF, Mzumbe University Unite in Groundbreaking HIV Research in Tanzania
• PHI: Meaningful Medicine Podcast: PHI’s Dr. Tomás Magaña on Pipeline Programs in Medicine
• PHI: Webinar Recording: Racism, Housing and Asthma
• Watch. Simprints: Impact & Inclusion in Ethiopia: Using Biometrics to Verify Healthcare Delivery
• Watch. UCSF Grand Rounds: Update on Long Covid
• Watch. UC Berkeley: Layla Kwong: Quantifying & Mitigating Heat Stress in Bangladesh
• Watch. UC Berkeley: Psychological Legacies of Intergenerational Trauma Under South Africa Apartheid
• Watch. UC Berkeley: Andrew Mertens: Drivers of Seasonal Infant and Child Growth Failure in Low-Resource Settings
• Watch. PHI: Infrastructure for Studying Treatment & Addiction Recovery Residences
• Watch. PHI: Intergenerational Trauma Among Asian American & Asian Immigrant Communities
• Watch. CUGH 2024 Virtual Global Health Week Satellite Sessions
• Listen. Seed Global Health. Voices of Healthcare Equity Podcast, Interview with Dr. Randall Ellis, Part I
• Listen. Seed Global Health. Voices of Healthcare Equity Podcast, Interview with Dr. Randall Ellis, Part 2
• Watch. PSI: Health Impact Amidst Climate Change
• Listen. AbbVie Presentation, J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
• Listen. Vir Biotechnology. Powering the Immune System to Transform Lives, J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

From Our December 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• MSD for Mothers: How to Advance Cancer Prevention & Care Through UHC, Opinion [Devex]

• Roche Diagnostics: How the World Gets Universal Health Coverage Back on Track, Opinion [Politico]

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: All the Carcinogens We Cannot See [The New Yorker]

• Gilead Sciences Is ‘Taking It Back’ in New Oncology Campaign [Fierce Biotech]

• UC Davis: Why We’re Still Breathing Dirty Indoor Air [New York Times]

• Mastercard: Networks Can Supercharge Efforts to Fight Climate Change, Opinion [Devex]

• UNICEF: Ending the Invisibility of Children in Climate Change Negotiations [Global Health NOW]

• PATH Among African Civil Society Groups in New Alliance to Combat Pandemics & Climate Change [Health Policy Watch]

• Global Fund for Women: Defunding Climate Action: What’s at Stake in GOP Cuts to International Aid [Council on Foreign Relations]

• Seed Global Health: Like Father, Like Daughter: Why Vanessa Kerry Is Demanding Action on Climate & Health [The Guardian]

• Seed Global Health: The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis [France 24]

• Seed Global Health: The Five Things & People to Watch at the UN COP28 Climate Talks [Newsweek]

• Cepheid: WHO Says We Can ‘Write the Final Chapter in the Story of TB.’ How Close Are We? [NPR]

• UC Berkeley: CRISPR’s Pioneers Reflect on the First Gene-Editing Treatment [STAT]

• Stanford: Get Real: Artificial Intelligence in Health [Politico]

• Stanford I UCSF: Why Your Chatbot’s So Racist [Politico]

• SF Community Health Foundation: US, SF Increase PrEP Uptake, but Disparities Remain [Bay Area Reporter]

• UCSF: This Is How the World Finally Ends the HIV/AIDS Pandemic [Nature]

• SF Community Health Foundation: Communities Should Lead Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Opinion [Bay Area Reporter]

• Fistula Foundation‘s Kate Grant on Why Giving Birth Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence – or a Life Sentence [US News & World Report]

• MSD for Mothers I Pathfinder International: How to Get Pregnant Women to Hospitals When Ambulances Can’t Reach Them [Devex]

• UNICEF: 1 in 5 Children in Rich Countries Lives in Poverty [Japan Times]

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Global Typhoid Challenges in Focus at International Conference in Rwanda [Yahoo Finance]

• Roche Diagnostics Grows Hepatitis Diagnostics Roster with New Immunoassays [Fierce Biotech]

• UCSF: US Life Expectancy Creeps Up as Covid Deaths Fall [New York Times]

• UCSF I UC Berkeley: San Francisco Bay Area’s Covid Death Rate Was Among the Lowest in the Nation. Here’s Why [LA Times]

• Accenture CEO Julie Sweet Named Among World’s Most Powerful Women on 2023 Forbes List [Forbes]

• Mastercard Foundation & Africa CDC Launch Phase 2 of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative to Strengthen Africa’s Public Health Systems [Yahoo Finance]

• UNICEF, WFP Confront Growing Dissent in Ranks Over Gaza [Devex]

• Listen. UC Berkeley: Maternity Group Care for & by Black People Is Improving Outcomes in Oakland [KQED]

• Watch. Seed Global Health: Dr. Vanessa Kerry Delves Into Intersections of Health & Climate [Patch]

More Member News

• PATH Partners for New Series “The Climate & Us”

• PSI: 4 Ways We’re Adapting to Climate Change

• UC Davis: California Dairy Farmers Generate Renewable Energy from Waste

• Stanford: Embracing the Emotions Behind Climate Science

• JSI: A Race Against Rising Temperatures: Creating a Cool & Resilient City Infrastructure

• Ipas Malawi Ensures People Get the Reproductive Health Care They Need in the Face of Climate Change

• Planetary Health Alliance Monthly Newsletter

• Viamo Partners to Upskill 290,000 Pakistani Youth on Climate Change

• PATH: How Our Sector Can Ready Health Systems for Climate Change

• Ipas: In Northern Kenya, Women-Led Climate Justice Is Taking Shape

• UC Davis: In Hotter Regions, Mammals Seek Forests, Avoid Human Habitats

• Stanford: Sustainable, Plant-Based Menstrual Pads Could Improve Access to Hygiene Products

• PATH I UNICEF: The World’s First WHO-Recommended Malaria Vaccine Has Landed in Cameroon

• Eleanor Crook Foundation: Why Integrating Nutrition & Immunization Can Be a Game-Changer

• MSD for Mothers: Beyond the Sum of Our (Body) Parts: A Call to Action from Women & Girls

• PATH: The Power of AI for Health Equity

• UC Berkeley CEND I Mastercard Foundation: Julia Schaletzky Advances Biomedical Entrepreneurship in Uganda with Grant

• Stanford I UCSF: Can Public Health Continue to Strike at Malaria & Low Birthweights at Once?

• PATH: What Can We Learn from HPV Vaccine Delivery Costs?

• JSI: Prioritizing HPV Vaccination Globally: Time for Action

• WHO Digital Channels: WHO’s WhatsApp Channel Hits 5M Followers

• Google I Stanford Partner to Make Comprehensive Covid Dataset Available

• UC Berkeley: Using Big Data to Examine the Social Factors Affecting Child Health

• Stanford Receives NIH Funding for Creation of RADx Tribal Data Repository

• L.E.K. Consulting: Tapping Into New Potential: Realising the Value of Data in the Healthcare Sector

• Ipas: UN Experts Say US Abortion Bans Violate Human Rights

• PSI: Shaping Markets for Self-Care Technologies

• Pathfinder International: Introducing Group Antenatal Care in Nigeria’s Borno State

• Stanford: Preparing for Pediatric Emergencies at the Border

• Eleanor Crook Foundation Announces Partnership with Helen Keller International to Advance Maternal Nutrition Research in Nepal

• UC Davis: Dangers of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pets

• UC Berkeley Public Health Team Reports on Prison Ventilation Conditions During Covid-19 Outbreaks; Wins Grant for Related Research

• Baraka Impact Finance I UC Berkeley: Managing Director Leads Discussion on Social Impact Investment

• Eleanor Crook Foundation: RUTF Inclusion In WHO Essential Medicines List: A Game Changer for Wasting Treatment

• Pathfinder International: Youth Health & Empowerment — Focus of Two New Projects in Africa

• UCSF: Helping Women by Helping Their Care Providers

• PHI: Called by CDC to Develop Five-Year Plan to Strengthen Emergency Response Efforts in CA, NV, AZ, HI, & Pacific Islands

• JSI: New Way to Diagnose Tuberculosis Offers Children a Ray of Hope

• Global Health Technologies Coalition Breaks Down USAID’s Health R&D Programs Report Shared with Congress

• PSI: Engaging the Private Sector for Disease Surveillance in Myanmar

• ReSurge International‘s Rapid Response to Nepal’s Fire Tragedy

• UC Davis: Higher Conscientiousness Linked to Less Risk of Dementia Diagnosis

• Gilead Sciences Named Number One Overall Philanthropic Funder of HIV-Related Programs for Second Year in a Row

• Gilead Sciences Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Third Consecutive Year

• AbbVie I Merck Make 2023 Seramount 100 Best Companies List

• UC Berkeley: Sabrina Boyce Wins Funding to Expose Social Roots of Sexual Violence

• UC Berkeley: Doctoral Candidate Iemaan Rana Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List

• NC Global Health Alliance: Resilience Is Key to Overcoming Global Health Challenges

• Global Health Corps: 2023 Annual Report: A Year Of Mobilizing Next-Gen Health Leaders Worldwide

• PATH I Stanford Digital Medic’s Advocacy Training for Community Health Workers Selected as One of Six Content Global Goods by Digital Square at PATH

• Friends of the Global Fight Gives GAPP/FAPP Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS to Sen. Graham & Rep. Watson Coleman

• Factually Health Receives Honorable Mention at HITLAB Innovators Summit 2023

• Global Health Technologies Coalition: 2023 Innovating for Impact Award Winners Announced

• PHI Welcomes Melissa Stafford Jones as CEO & President

• Global Fund for Women: PeiYao Chen Announced as New President & CEO

• PATH: Listen, Lead, Repeat: One CEO’s Journey to a More Inclusive Workplace

• Eleanor Crook Foundation at the 5th FANUS Conference in Dakar, Senegal

• UCSF‘s DiTHub Sponsors a Coffee Hour at the Global Digital Health Forum Meeting

• Watch. Living Goods: Saving Lives at Scale Through Data-Driven Healthcare

• Watch. YLabs: Catalyzing Impact for Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights in a Changing Climate: A Guide for Synergistic Action

• Watch. ETR: Partnering with Young People Through a Trauma-Informed Youth-Centered Health Design Framework

• Listen. Living Goods: Chuck Slaughter on Digital First Healthcare Saving Lives at the Last Mile, Africa Health Ventures Podcast

• Listen. ReSurge International: Ethical Storytelling in Nonprofit Marketing with Anna Santos, Health Nonprofit Digital Marketing Podcast

• Listen. Fistula Foundation. What Is Obstetric Fistula? on Global Health Pursuit Podcast

From Our November 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• PHI: Fresh Produce Access Boosts Health Outcomes Among Diabetes Patients & Those on Medicaid in Recent Studies [STAT]
• PATH: Collaborative Solutions Key to Advance Universal Health Coverage, Opinion [Devex]
• UCSF: Dobbs’s Confounding Effect on Abortion Rates [The Atlantic]
• UCSF: Measuring the Long-Term Cost of Restricting Abortion Access [STAT]
• Friends of the Global Fight: What PEPFAR’s Political Paralysis Means for the Global Fund [Devex]
• Pfizer: How Multigenerational Leadership Can Transform Global Health, Opinion [Devex]
• UNICEF: Child-Lens Investing: A New Field Aims to Link Money to Impact on Kids [Devex]
• Merck for Mothers (MSD for Mothers): A Transformative Approach for Safer Child Birth [The Guardian, Nigeria]
• UC Berkeley: An Invisible Killer [Washington Post]
• Stanford I UC Berkeley: Lahaina Schools Are Open Again. Parents Worry They’re Ridden with Toxic Waste. [Vox]
• UNICEF: ‘Staggering’ 347M Children Facing Water Scarcity in South Asia [Al Jazeera]
• Stanford: Global Lead Poisoning Is the Biggest Threat You’ve Never Heard About [Think Global Health]
• UNICEF: ‘A Living Hell’: How Health Systems Are Crumbling in Gaza [Devex]
• Global Fund for Women: Philanthropy Funders Call for Cease-Fire, Humanitarian Aid to Gazans [Devex]
• UNICEF Plans for Malaria Vaccine Purchase [CIDRAP]
• Vir Biotechnology Ranked the Fastest-Growing Company in North America on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 [Yahoo Finance]
• IlluminAid Spreads Messages via Video [Enterprise-Record]
• Seed Global Health: Climate Change Is Our Greatest Health Crisis. The Same Investments Can Often Address Both Threats [Fortune]
• Seed Global Health: Climate Change Is One of Our Biggest Health Threats – Humanity Faces a Staggering Toll Unless We Act, Opinion [The Telegraph]
• UC Davis: Orcas Are Killing Porpoises — But Not Eating Them. Why? [National Geographic]
• UC Davis: USDA Bans French Poultry Imports Over Avian Influenza Vaccine [Popular Science]
• Google‘s AI-Powered Search Feature Goes Global with a 120-Country Expansion [End Gadget]
• UNICEF: Nigeria to Vaccinate 7.7M Girls Against Leading Cause of Cervical Cancer [UN News]
• Merck‘s Keytruda Gets FDA Nod for Expanded Use in Lung Cancer [Reuters]
• Roche Diagnostics‘ Elecsys NfL Test Is Granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation [Yahoo Finance]
• Cepheid: How Decentralized Testing Is Advancing TB Diagnosis & Treatment [Devex]
• Roche Diagnostics Gets FDA Approval for Cobas 5800 HPV Test [360 Dx]
• Pfizer Preps Flu-Covid mRNA Combo Shot for Phase 3 [Fierce Biotech]
• Watsi: Why Addressing Burnout Among Healthcare Workers Is Crucial to Advance Health-Related SDGs [World Economic Forum]
• Google Health: Five Ways It’s Using AI in Africa [South Cape Forum]
• Listen. UC Berkeley: All Sides: Study Links Tobacco Companies to America’s Junk Food Addiction [WOSU/NPR]
• Watch. Merck for Mothers (MSD for Mothers): Sustainable Approaches to Improve Maternal Health & Achieve UHC [Devex]
• Watch. UCSF: Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine for HIV [MedPage Today]

More Member News

• GHTC I Global Health Council I PATH I Pathfinder International I PSI I Sabin Vaccine Institute: Bipartisan SIGHTS Act to Empower the USAID to Boost R&D Capabilities in LMICs
• Stanford Announces Global Health African Scholars Program
• Maya Health Alliance: Language Matters
• Friends of the Global Fight, Bush Institute & Other Leaders on Global Health, Faith, & Democracy Call on Congress to Reauthorize PEPFAR
• UC Berkeley Partners with Kaiser Permanente to Launch the California Center for Outbreak Readiness
• UC Davis: Top Safety Award Goes to One Health Institute Lab
• Google: Four Ways We Think About Health Equity & AI
• Americares I Global Health Council I UNICEF: 75 NGOS Urge Congress to Fund Humanitarian & Food Assistance Programs in Next Supplemental
• Stanford: Building a Career in Climate Change & Health
• Pathfinder International: Hope & Heartbreak for Pakistan in the Era of Climate Change 
• Stanford: Global Health Faculty in Focus with Lisa Patel
• PHI: Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America
• Seed Global Health: The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis, pp 36–37
• CARE-WWF: In East Africa, Building Community-Led Climate Change Solutions
• Planetary Health Alliance Moves to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Friends of the Global Fight: The Global Fund’s Unique Contribution to Universal Health Coverage & Stronger Health Systems
• JSI: Considering Interoperability & Governance in the Expansion of Digital Health 
• UC Berkeley: Native American Health Care Remains Vastly Underfunded
• UC Berkeley: Study Shows Patients in Low Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods Start Cancer Treatment Later — & Die Sooner — Than Those in Higher-Status Areas
• UCSF: Institute for Global Health Sciences Launches Data, Innovation & Technology Hub
• Mastercard: Building More Inclusive Tech Starts with Bringing Together More Diverse Teams
• Health AI: New Leadership at Global Tech Organisation Sharpening Focus On AI in Health
• Baraka Impact Finance: Reflections on the World Health Summit 2023: A Defining Year for Global Health Action
• Factually Health: Finalist in HITLAB Fall 2023 Breakthrough Alliance Challenge
• UC Davis: USDA Awards $2M to Study Livestock Grazing in Organic Orchards
• UC Davis: Genomic Studies in Canines Pave the Way for Human Cancer Treatments
• UNICEF: Nepal Quake: UN Response Continues, as Aftershocks Leave Families Traumatized
• PHI: Participants in Food as Medicine Program Showed Clinically Significant Improvements in Managing Diabetes
• PSI: Reflecting on Men, HIV & Mental Health 
• PHI: ‘Flourish Project’ Helps Improve Health Outcomes for Transgender Women of Color
• PSI: The Women Changing Philanthropy’s Game
• JSI: Celebrating Over a Decade of Global Nutrition Partnerships & Impact
• PSI: Private Sector Collaboration for Malaria Elimination
• PSI Expanding Malaria Prevention & Vaccination Through the Plus Project
• JSI: Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Scale-Up in India
• PHI Guides: Overdose Prevention 101 & Working with Rural Communities
• Gilead Sciences: Breaking Barriers to Breast Cancer Care in Rural Areas
• Global Health Corps: Decolonizing Maternity Care: A History of Labor Practices in the Global South
• Global Fund for Women: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Names Latanya Mapp Frett as New President & CEO
• UC Berkeley‘s Denise Herd Secures $100,000 Grant to Study Vaccine Hesitancy in Black & Latinx Communities
• Nivi Partners with Ninety & APA Insurance to Offer a Game-Changing Insurance Solution in Kenya
• PHI: Listening to Community Leaders: New Data for Gender Equity Philanthropy (Rise Up External Evaluation 2017-2022)
• ETR: Emergency Contraception: Here’s What to Know
• Google: A Glimpse of the Next Generation of AlphaFold
• Sabin Vaccine Institute Begins Phase 2 Clinical Trial for Marburg Vaccine in Uganda
• Roche Diagnostics Selects PocDoc to Join Startup Creasphere
• San Francisco Community Health Center Annual Impact Report
• Merck for Mothers: 2023 Kenneth C. Frazier Maternal Health Equity Awardee Named
• Gilead Sciences Named Number One Overall Philanthropic Funder of HIV-Related Programs for Second Year in a Row by Funders Concerned About AIDS
• L.E.K.: How Hospitals Can Use Software to Drive Strategic Supply Chain Transformation
• Planetary Health Alliance: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
• Washington Global Health Alliance Launches Exchange Platform
• CARE-WWF Alliance Strengthens Ecosystems in Tanzania
• Living Goods: Kenya Takes Bold Step Towards Universal Health Coverage with the Launch of a Digital Health Tool
• Living Goods I PATH: Healthcare Organizations Call for Enhanced Domestic Funding of Uganda’s Health Sector
• PATH: Compendium of Public–Private Mix for Tuberculosis Control in India
• PHI: The State of Local Cannabis Policy in California Cities & Counties: 2023 Scorecards
• GAIA Global Health Presents Global Citizen Award to Dr. Michael Gottlieb
• WHO Tech Task Force: Attacks on Health Care in Gaza Strip Unacceptable
• Americares Responds to Israel/Gaza Crisis
• Pfizer Takes Action
• Stanford CIGH Message on the Current Situation in Gaza & Israel from a Global Health Perspective
• MedShare Responds to the Humanitarian Crisis in Israel & Gaza
• Accenture: Living Our Values
• Merck CEO Statement on Israel-Hamas Conflict
• CUGH‘s Statement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• World Telehealth Initiative‘s Statement of the Israeli-Hamas Conflict
• Google: Israel-Hamas War: $8M in Relief
• Meta‘s Ongoing Efforts Regarding the Israel-Hamas War
• UC Berkeley I UC Davis I UCSF: University of California Statement on Mideast Violence
• MedShare: Centering Our Humanitarian Role During an International Crisis
• PHI: Illegal Ozone Generators Sold in CA Can Harm Health, Settlement Shows Need for Stronger Enforcement
• PHI: Utah Healthy Places Index Honored with 2023 NACDD Chronic Disease Innovator Impact Award
• PHI: Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi Honored for her Leadership in HIV/AIDS and Global Health
• PHI: New Report Shows Only Half of US States Reimburse for Four Key Types of Virtual Healthcare
• PHI: Podcast: Filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell Share Their Story of the Making of Common Ground and Why Regenerative Agriculture Must Become the Norm
• PHI: MPT Product Development Database
• PHI: Podcast: Sexual and Reproductive Health With the Empowering Black Youth Program
• PHI: Fall 2023 Telehealth Policy Updates
• PHI: Meet the Inaugural 2023-2024 Together Toward Equity Fellows
• PHI: You Could Be Drinking More Than You Think, Without Even Knowing
• PHI: Building Diversity and the Capacity of Global Public Health Professionals, Organizations for Greater Global Health Outcomes
• Zenysis. Watch. 3 Examples of Technology & Innovation Transforming Health Care in Rwanda
• Watch. Washington Global Health Alliance‘s 2023 Global Health Impact Awards
• Watch. Health AI: Attracting Workers by Shifting the Paradigm
• Watch. Stanford: Exploring the Future of Global Health Technologies Webinar Series
• Watch. ReSurge International: Jacob’s Gift: A Tale of Love & Healing
• Listen. ReSurge International: Shankar Rai: A Surgeon’s Journey from Rural Nepal to International Recognition. Healthcare for Humans Podcast 

From Our October 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Stanford: Lead Poisoning Kills Millions Annually. One Country Is Showing the Way Forward. [VOX]

• PHI: Health Risks Remain High for People Returning to Lahaina [Honolulu Star Advertiser]

• Seed Global Health: Climate Action Must Respond to Extreme Weather Driving Health Crisis, Says WHO [The Guardian]

• Seed Global Health: Climate Change ‘Is Killing Us’: UN Sounds Health Alarm[Reuters]

• Seed Global Health: Leaders See Hope in Tackling Deadly Climate Change and Public Health Problems Together [AP]

• Seed Global Health: How Climate Change Makes Global Health Issues Harder to Solve [World Economic Forum]

• Seed Global Health: WHO’s Vanessa Kerry on Climate Crisis: ‘Human Survival Is on the Line’ [Devex]

• UCSF: Cloner of Covid Genes Has Big Plans [Politico]

• UCSF I Pfizer: Different Roads, Same Destination: Study Shows Covid Variants Evolve to Suppress Immunity [Fierce Biotech]

• Simprints: What Are Biometrics & How Can It Be Responsibly Used to Help Tackle Malaria? [World Economic Forum]

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: The ‘Model-Eat-Model World’ of Clinical AI: How Predictive Power Becomes a Pitfall [STAT]

• Pfizer RSV Vaccine Wins CDC Recommendation for Seasonal Use Only [STAT]

• Vir Biotechnology: Can the World Still Invent an HIV Vaccine? Progress in One Area Creates New Problem [STAT]

• Gilead Sciences: Is the End of AIDS in Sight? [The Economist]

• Eleanor Crooks Foundation: $950M — The Price to End Child Starvation Deaths, Opinion [Devex]

• UNICEF: More Than 1,200 Children Have Died in the Past 5 Months in Conflict-Wrecked Sudan [AP]

• UNICEF: In Burkina Faso, a Million Children Out of School Due to Insecurity[Reuters]

• UC Davis: Deadly Avian Flu Reaches Galápagos Islands [Science]

• Merck‘s Blood Vessel Disorder Therapy Receives US FDA’s Priority Review[Reuters]

• UCSF’s Diana Greene Foster Named MacArthur Fellow [MacArthur Foundation]

• UC Berkeley: Ziad Obermeyer Named to Time’s 100/AI List [Time]

• Medicines360 & UCSF’s Monica Hahn Named Fierce 50: Patient Advocacy Honorees [Fierce Pharma]

• UCSF: Feeling Terrible After Your Covid Shot? Then It’s Probably Working.[New York Times]

• PHI: This Data Shows One Critical Way San Francisco’s National Reputation Is Changing [SF Chronicle]

• Listen. Merck for Mothers: Maternal Health & Health Equity on Research & Justice for All Podcast [Health Affairs]

• Watch. UCSF: ‘Clear Differences’ in Blood of Patients with Long Covid, Research Shows [NBC]

More Member News

• Gilead: Advancing Global Health Equity in Tropical Regions

• Baraka Impact Finance: A Prescription for Equity: How Impact Investing Can Accelerate UHC & the SDGs

• PATH & PAHO Sign Agreement to Advance Health Equity in the Americas

• Stanford: How Much Does Wildfire Smoke Influence Air Quality Trends?

• Ipas: In Northern Kenya, Women-Led Climate Justice Is Taking Shape

• UC Davis: Pacific Rim University Leaders Join Forces on Regional Challenges

• GAIA Global Health: The Case for Investing in Primary Health Care Workers

• Meta: State of the World’s Health in the Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Americares & Quest Diagnostics Expand Collaboration to Support Health Equity

• UC Berkeley: Early Malnutrition Sets Stage for Poor Growth & Even Death, Researchers Find

• AIfluence: Redefining Digital Engagement: The Changing Face of Influencer Marketing

• Stanford: The Questions We Should Be Asking In Noncommunicable Disease Research

• Friends of the Global Fight I JSI I PATH: Integrated Person-Centered Health Services: Translating Learnings from HIV to Pave the Way for Universal Health Coverage

• Stanford Medicine Researchers Propose New Guidelines for Tuberculosis Prevention in Prisons

• UC Davis Researchers Awarded $28M to Combat Rift Valley Fever

• PHI Researchers Shortlisted for Cancer Grand Challenges Funding

• World Telehealth Initiative‘s Sharon Allen Receives United Nations Association Peace Prize

• Vir Biotechnology Awarded BARDA Funding to Support Development of Antibody Platform Technologies for Global Infectious Disease Threats

• ReSurge International: Reflections on My First Year as President & CEO

• PSI: Why We Need Consumer-Powered Health Systems

• Cepheid‘s Tuberculosis Test to Be Provided to the Global Fund at Cost

• UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Unprecedented Diphtheria Outbreak in Nigeria, Urges Urgent Vaccination

• Ipas: Australia’s Support for Safe Abortion Globally

• Pathfinder International: Beyond Reproductive Health: How to Ensure Reproductive Autonomy for Women

• Street Business School: NGOs Should Pay Attention to Women’s Entrepreneurship to Achieve the SDGs

• IDEO.org: Speculative Futures in Gender Equality Report

• ETR: Engaging Youth to Measure Sexual Reproductive Health Quality & Access: In Conversation with Nirali Chakraborty

• JSI: In Ghana, a Project to Get Girls Back to School Also Lowers Teen Pregnancy

• UCSF: IGHS Partners with Univ. of Nairobi to Train Underserved Girls & Young Women in Data Science

• Simprints‘ Groundbreaking New Union to Tackle Malaria

• UC Davis: Engineered Bone Marrow Shows Promise for Developing Cancer Treatment

• JSI: Using Trusted Community Networks to Vaccinate Older Persons Against Covid-19

• PATH: What Will It Take to Develop a Sustainable Vaccine Manufacturing Ecosystem in Africa?

• PHI: News About Efforts to Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) Rarely Describes the Benefits of SSB Taxes, Study Finds

• Stanford: It Takes a Village, IAVI Report

• ReSurge International: Armed with Courage: Helmer’s Story

• Chevron: Rebuilding Initiative Helps Pakistanis Start Over After Floods

• UCGHI: Programs Across the University of California Are Changing the Landscape for Global Mental Health Access

• Sabin Vaccine Institute & Indonesia Sign Agreement to Develop & Operationalize Cervical Cancer Elimination Strategy

• Vir Biotechnology: Clinical Trial of HIV Vaccine Begins in US & South Africa

• PATH: Universal Health Coverage Means Universal Oxygen Access

• JSI: Localization in Action: A Path to Strengthening TB Care

• Ipas‘ Carbon Reduction Plan

• PSI: A Stronger Private Sector for Increased LARC Access

• UNICEF: Ukraine’s Children Return to School After 18 Months of Violence

• Baraka Impact Finance: Baraka Analytics Pilot Scheduled for October 16th

• GHTC’s Jamie Nishi Appointed Executive Director, ASTMH

• Pathfinder International: The New Frontier: Benefits & Risks of AI for NGOs

• UC Davis Researchers Exploring Data & AI Tools for Animal Health Diagnosis & Treatment

• Mastercard: This Breast Cancer Survivor Wants to Use Data & AI to Help Others Beat the Odds

• Ipas: Meet Sofia: AI Medical Expert on Abortion Available 24/7

• Simprints: Unique & Universal: How Fingerprint Tech Is Helping Get Kids Protected in Bangladesh

• Living Goods: Busia County, Kenya Eager for Full Digitization of Community Health Promoters

• PATH Welcomes WHO Recommendation of a Second Malaria Vaccine for Young Children

• Omnivis: Food Safety in a Global Context: Challenges & Solutions

• Chevron Named Among 100 Healthiest Workplaces in America

• Planetary Health Alliance September Newsletter

• UC Berkeley: Sukanya Mukherjee & Ariana Simone Named BAGHA Bears on Boards Fellows

• Gilead to Present Latest Innovative Virology Data on Current & Potentially Transformative Therapies Across HIV & COVID-19 at IDWeek 2023

• PHI’s Pacific ADA Center Provides Guidance on Service Animals in Public Spaces

• PHI: As Child Welfare Workforce Shrinks, News Frame Must Shift From Blame to Change

• PHI: How Media Coverage of Crime Shapes Perception of Public Safety: PHI Researcher in the SF Chronicle

• PHI: The REPAIR Framework for Community-Institution Solidarity in Racial Healing

• PHI: Webinar Recordings: Racial Trauma Among Asian American & Asian Immigrant Communities

• PHI: Some States Crack Down on Alcohol That Looks Like Juice

• PHI: El Aumento de las Temperaturas, el Uso de Sustancias y la Falta de Vivienda Contribuyen al Aumento de las Enfermedades y Muertes Relacionadas con el Calor

• PHI: The Opioid Crisis: Prescribing Buprenorphine in Hospital Emergency Departments to Save Lives

• PHI: Climate Change Causing Asthma Symptoms to Worsen in CA’s Stanislaus County

• PHI: Investigadores y Comunidad Diseñan un Sistema de Filtro de Aire para Comunidades Durante Incendios Forestales

• PHI Experts Offer Advice on Working Out During Wildfire Smoke Events

• PHI: Cherished Futures for Black Moms & Babies is Enhancing Breastfeeding Support in LA to Reduce Infant and Maternal Mortality

• PHI: The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Among Youth in California’s Rural Communities

• Listen. Mastercard: She’s Building the Digital Rails to Go the Last Mile, What’s Next In Podcast

• Watch. Chevron Recognizes World Heart Day: Tips from Huma Abbasi

• Watch. Maya Health Alliance: Guatemalans Rise Up in Support of Democracy

• Watch. Maya Health Alliance Selected for $1M Maternal & Infant Health Award

From Our September 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Stanford I UC Berkeley I UCSF: The High Cost of Malnutrition [Global Health NOW]

• UNICEF: Libya’s Floods & Morocco’s Earthquake Pose a Massive Humanitarian Challenge [CNN]

• Americares‘ Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Tool: There’s a Resiliency Plan for Armageddon [Politico]

• Seed Global Health: Critical Care Physician Takes on Climate Change in New WHO Role [JAMA]

• PHI: Heat-Related Deaths Are Up, & Not Just Because It’s Getting Hotter [LA Times]

• UC Davis: Dementia Risk Grows with Increased Exposure to Air Pollution, Study Finds [LA Times]

• Seed Global Health: Hawaii Wildfires Another Wake-Up Call That the Climate Crisis Imperils Our Health [Trib Live]

• PHI‘s CEO Mary Pittman Recognized as Top 50 Executive [NonProfit Times]

• UC Berkeley: The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning [Wired]

• Pfizer: CDC Recommends Updated Covid Shots [Washington Post]

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: Covid-19, Flu & Rsv: A Guide to This Fall’s Vaccine Options [Mercury News]

• UC Davis I UCSF: Do They Mask? Are They Eating Out? How Covid Experts Are Living Now. [Washington Post]

• UC Davis: Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open. [New York Times]

• PATH: Trial of Malaria Vaccine Plus Drugs Confirms Two-Thirds Reduction in Infections, Deaths [CIDRAP]

• Friends of the Global Fight: Why Ignoring Malaria in Africa Undermines US Interests [The National Interest]

• Pathfinder International: How the Federal Government Can Reduce Maternal Mortality Rates [Vanguard Nigeria]

• Stanford: How AI Is Changing Care, & How It’s Not [Politico]

• UC Berkeley: Could AI Be the Spark That Ends the Opioid Epidemic? [Tech Crunch]

• Medicines360‘s Long & Winding, $82M Road to Create & Distribute $50 Birth Control [ABC]

• JSI: USAID Launches $49M Program to Support Maternal & Child Health [African Business]

• Living Goods: How Busia Has Increased Uptake of Family Planning Services [Nation Africa]

• Street Business School‘s Mission to Create “Street-Smart” Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda [The New Times]

• UNICEF USA: No Deal in Sight for Global AIDS Program as Deadline Looms [Politico]

• UCSF: Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis? [Science Daily]

• UC Davis: Bird Flu Raced Through South America. Antarctica Could Be Next. [New York Times]

• UNICEF: ‘More & More on the Move.’ Record Number of Migrant Children in Latin America & Caribbean [CNN]

• Pfizer: FDA Approves First Vaccine to Protect Newborns from RSV [CNN]

• UNICEF: Power Cuts in Niger Threaten to Spoil Millions of Vaccines as Sanctions Take Their Toll, UN Says [AP]

• Stanford: Emotional Dry Cleaning: A Writer Helps Doctors Share Their Stories — & Their Pain [STAT]

• UNICEF Sounds Alarm on Child Cholera Cases in DR Congo [France 24]

• UC Davis: A Deadly Tick-Borne Epidemic Is Raging. Dogs Are Key to Ending It. [Washington Post]

• Pfizer: ‘Positive’ Result for Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate Booster [Reuters]

• Americares Channeled $114M in Aid to Ukraine Since Russian Invasion [Westfair Business Journal]

• UC Davis: The Birds of Summer Patrolling Ocean City’s Boardwalk [Popular Science]

• Listen. Seed Global Health: A Dose of Climate Reality: Dr. Vanessa Kerry on Global Health [My Climate Journey Podcast]

• Listen. PHI: Swamp Coolers Pump Smoke into Homes During Wildfires. In the Central Valley, Researchers & the Community Work on a Solution [KVPR]

More Member News

• PATH: Financing the Future of Global Health

• Meta: Metaverse Technologies Are Creating New Opportunities for Teachers to Inspire Students

• Ipas: Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide

• UC Berkeley: New Journal Rapid Reviews/Infectious Diseases Fights Against Health Disinformation

• PSI: Four Ways to Design Inclusive Digital Health Solutions for Women & Girls

• Hopelab Announces $2M in Responsible Technology Funding

• Stanford: The Lancet Launches Hub with WHO Resources on Care of Preterm Infants

• JSI: Health Communications Team Encourages Routine Childhood Vaccinations in Santa Clara County

• UCSF: UC Awards Large Grant to a Cross-Campus Indigenous Health Collaborative

• Roche Diagnostics: Empowering Health in Colombia Through Education & Diagnostic Solutions

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Meet the Award-Winning Nurse from Ghana Advocating for Women

• Fistula Foundation: What the 2023 Women Deliver Conference Taught Me About Collective Action

• CARE–WWF Alliance: In Tanzania, Communities Save Money Together to Build a Brighter Future

• Viamo: Revolutionizing Agricultural Outreach: IVR Infoline Launched

• PATH: Malaria Vaccine & Drug Combination Reduces Hospitalizations, Deaths in Children

• PSI: In Vietnam, AI Closes Gaps for Women’s Health

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Creating a New Vaccine Ecosystem to Fight Cervical Cancer

• Americares: Community & Free Clinics Can Help Vulnerable Patients Prepare for Extreme Weather

• Hopelab Explores Collaborative Design & Co-Creation for Health Equity

• IDEO.org: A Safe Space for Displaced Syrian Girls to Help Each Other Navigate Puberty

• MedShare: Disaster Preparedness & Relief Critical to Saving Lives

• PHI: Strengthening Global Gender Equity Through More Accessible, Equitable & Inclusive Technology for Women & Girls

• UCSF: Spotlight on Quality Improvement

• PHI: New Study Shows Expansion of Medicaid Increases Alcohol Screenings & Highlights Need for Policies, Programs That Improve Patient Screenings

• PHI: New Research Shows Older Adults Are the Fastest Growing Population to Try Marijuana

• UC Berkeley: Deadly Fungi, Toxic Tides, & Wildfire Smoke

• Stanford: Investigating Heart Health on a Changing Planet

• PHI: The Dangers & Deaths Due to Extreme Heat Are Rising, More Support & Policies Are Needed

• UNICEF: New Guidance Affirms Children’s Right to a Clean, Healthy Environment

• UNICEF: Children in 98% of African Countries at High or Extremely High Risk of the Impacts of Climate Change

• UNICEF USA: The Green Rising: Mobilizing Youth to Drive Climate Action

• CARE-WWF: Tuinuane Group: Supporting One Another Through Life’s Challenges

• PHI: Who Counts as an Expert? Rethinking Which Sources — & Solutions — Are Featured in News Coverage

• UC Berkeley School of Public Health Launches Center for Health Innovations & Entrepreneurship

• Omnivis: 40 Under 40 Food Safety

• Nivi: Innovations in the Everyday: August Updates

• Planetary Health Alliance August News

• PATH: How Brianna Musselman Champions Equity

• Americares Responds to Hurricane Idalia

• Seed Global Health: Andrew C. Musoke Joins as Chief Operating Officer

• PSI: Annual Report 2022

• San Francisco Community Health Center Impact Report, 2022–23

• UC Davis: Scientists Investigate Green Sea Turtle Tumor Disease

• Hopelab & JED Foundation Announce New Podcast, I Need to Ask You Something

• PHI: Hospital Implements Innovative Strategies to Combat Opioid Crisis, Recognized for Successful Programs

• PHI: Clear Lake Community Puts Strategies in Place to Recover from Harmful Algal Blooms in the Water Supply

• PHI: The Dangers and Deaths Due to Extreme Heat are Rising, More Support and Policies are Needed

• PHI: Trusted Navigators Assist Family Caregivers in Obtaining Holistic Care for Aging People with Serious Illnesses

• PHI: New Report Reveals High Maternal Mortality Rates in Kern County and the Importance of Addressing Social & Economic Factors

• PHI: Experts Offer Advice on Working Out During Wildfire Smoke Events

• PHI: A Closer Look at Heat-Related Illness and Deaths: Who’s Most Vulnerable and What are Coping Strategies for Communities

• PHI: School Districts Come Together to Share Experiences, Strategies for Creating Healthier Learning Environments

• PHI: Shifting Investing Practices into Community Control

• PHI: The Healthy Places Index: Extreme Heat Edition

• Listen. Hesperian Health Guides: Decolonize Your Career in Global Health, A Shot in the Arm Podcast

• Listen. World Telehealth Initiative: Providing Essential Health Care Through Telehealth, Global Health Pursuit Podcast

• Listen. UCSF: The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health, As Precribed Podcast

• Watch. Fistula Foundation: Facing Fistula: One Woman’s Journey from “Cursed” to Cured

From Our August 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Stanford I UC Berkeley I UCSF: The High Cost of Malnutrition [Global Health NOW]

• UNICEF: Libya’s Floods & Morocco’s Earthquake Pose a Massive Humanitarian Challenge [CNN]

• Americares‘ Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Tool: There’s a Resiliency Plan for Armageddon [Politico]

• Seed Global Health: Critical Care Physician Takes on Climate Change in New WHO Role [JAMA]

• PHI: Heat-Related Deaths Are Up, & Not Just Because It’s Getting Hotter [LA Times]

• UC Davis: Dementia Risk Grows with Increased Exposure to Air Pollution, Study Finds [LA Times]

• Seed Global Health: Hawaii Wildfires Another Wake-Up Call That the Climate Crisis Imperils Our Health [Trib Live]

• PHI‘s CEO Mary Pittman Recognized as Top 50 Executive [NonProfit Times]

• UC Berkeley: The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning [Wired]

• Pfizer: CDC Recommends Updated Covid Shots [Washington Post]

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: Covid-19, Flu & Rsv: A Guide to This Fall’s Vaccine Options [Mercury News]

• UC Davis I UCSF: Do They Mask? Are They Eating Out? How Covid Experts Are Living Now. [Washington Post]

• UC Davis: Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open. [New York Times]

• PATH: Trial of Malaria Vaccine Plus Drugs Confirms Two-Thirds Reduction in Infections, Deaths [CIDRAP]

• Friends of the Global Fight: Why Ignoring Malaria in Africa Undermines US Interests [The National Interest]

• Pathfinder International: How the Federal Government Can Reduce Maternal Mortality Rates [Vanguard Nigeria]

• Stanford: How AI Is Changing Care, & How It’s Not [Politico]

• UC Berkeley: Could AI Be the Spark That Ends the Opioid Epidemic? [Tech Crunch]

• Medicines360‘s Long & Winding, $82M Road to Create & Distribute $50 Birth Control [ABC]

• JSI: USAID Launches $49M Program to Support Maternal & Child Health [African Business]

• Living Goods: How Busia Has Increased Uptake of Family Planning Services [Nation Africa]

• Street Business School‘s Mission to Create “Street-Smart” Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda [The New Times]

• UNICEF USA: No Deal in Sight for Global AIDS Program as Deadline Looms [Politico]

• UCSF: Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis? [Science Daily]

• UC Davis: Bird Flu Raced Through South America. Antarctica Could Be Next. [New York Times]

• UNICEF: ‘More & More on the Move.’ Record Number of Migrant Children in Latin America & Caribbean [CNN]

• Pfizer: FDA Approves First Vaccine to Protect Newborns from RSV [CNN]

• UNICEF: Power Cuts in Niger Threaten to Spoil Millions of Vaccines as Sanctions Take Their Toll, UN Says [AP]

• Stanford: Emotional Dry Cleaning: A Writer Helps Doctors Share Their Stories — & Their Pain [STAT]

• UNICEF Sounds Alarm on Child Cholera Cases in DR Congo [France 24]

• UC Davis: A Deadly Tick-Borne Epidemic Is Raging. Dogs Are Key to Ending It. [Washington Post]

• Pfizer: ‘Positive’ Result for Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate Booster [Reuters]

• Americares Channeled $114M in Aid to Ukraine Since Russian Invasion [Westfair Business Journal]

• UC Davis: The Birds of Summer Patrolling Ocean City’s Boardwalk [Popular Science]

• Listen. Seed Global Health: A Dose of Climate Reality: Dr. Vanessa Kerry on Global Health [My Climate Journey Podcast]

• Listen. PHI: Swamp Coolers Pump Smoke into Homes During Wildfires. In the Central Valley, Researchers & the Community Work on a Solution [KVPR]

More Member News

• PATH: Financing the Future of Global Health

• Meta: Metaverse Technologies Are Creating New Opportunities for Teachers to Inspire Students

• Ipas: Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide

• UC Berkeley: New Journal Rapid Reviews/Infectious Diseases Fights Against Health Disinformation

• PSI: Four Ways to Design Inclusive Digital Health Solutions for Women & Girls

• Hopelab Announces $2M in Responsible Technology Funding

• Stanford: The Lancet Launches Hub with WHO Resources on Care of Preterm Infants

• JSI: Health Communications Team Encourages Routine Childhood Vaccinations in Santa Clara County

• UCSF: UC Awards Large Grant to a Cross-Campus Indigenous Health Collaborative

• Roche Diagnostics: Empowering Health in Colombia Through Education & Diagnostic Solutions

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Meet the Award-Winning Nurse from Ghana Advocating for Women

• Fistula Foundation: What the 2023 Women Deliver Conference Taught Me About Collective Action

• CARE–WWF Alliance: In Tanzania, Communities Save Money Together to Build a Brighter Future

• Viamo: Revolutionizing Agricultural Outreach: IVR Infoline Launched

• PATH: Malaria Vaccine & Drug Combination Reduces Hospitalizations, Deaths in Children

• PSI: In Vietnam, AI Closes Gaps for Women’s Health

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Creating a New Vaccine Ecosystem to Fight Cervical Cancer

• Americares: Community & Free Clinics Can Help Vulnerable Patients Prepare for Extreme Weather

• Hopelab Explores Collaborative Design & Co-Creation for Health Equity

• IDEO.org: A Safe Space for Displaced Syrian Girls to Help Each Other Navigate Puberty

• MedShare: Disaster Preparedness & Relief Critical to Saving Lives

• PHI: Strengthening Global Gender Equity Through More Accessible, Equitable & Inclusive Technology for Women & Girls

• UCSF: Spotlight on Quality Improvement

• PHI: New Study Shows Expansion of Medicaid Increases Alcohol Screenings & Highlights Need for Policies, Programs That Improve Patient Screenings

• PHI: New Research Shows Older Adults Are the Fastest Growing Population to Try Marijuana

• UC Berkeley: Deadly Fungi, Toxic Tides, & Wildfire Smoke

• Stanford: Investigating Heart Health on a Changing Planet

• PHI: The Dangers & Deaths Due to Extreme Heat Are Rising, More Support & Policies Are Needed

• UNICEF: New Guidance Affirms Children’s Right to a Clean, Healthy Environment

• UNICEF: Children in 98% of African Countries at High or Extremely High Risk of the Impacts of Climate Change

• UNICEF USA: The Green Rising: Mobilizing Youth to Drive Climate Action

• CARE-WWF: Tuinuane Group: Supporting One Another Through Life’s Challenges

• PHI: Who Counts as an Expert? Rethinking Which Sources — & Solutions — Are Featured in News Coverage

• UC Berkeley School of Public Health Launches Center for Health Innovations & Entrepreneurship

• Omnivis: 40 Under 40 Food Safety

• Nivi: Innovations in the Everyday: August Updates

• Planetary Health Alliance August News

• PATH: How Brianna Musselman Champions Equity

• Americares Responds to Hurricane Idalia

• Seed Global Health: Andrew C. Musoke Joins as Chief Operating Officer

• PSI: Annual Report 2022

• San Francisco Community Health Center Impact Report, 2022–23

• UC Davis: Scientists Investigate Green Sea Turtle Tumor Disease

• Hopelab & JED Foundation Announce New Podcast, I Need to Ask You Something

• PHI: Hospital Implements Innovative Strategies to Combat Opioid Crisis, Recognized for Successful Programs

• PHI: Clear Lake Community Puts Strategies in Place to Recover from Harmful Algal Blooms in the Water Supply

• PHI: The Dangers and Deaths Due to Extreme Heat are Rising, More Support and Policies are Needed

• PHI: Trusted Navigators Assist Family Caregivers in Obtaining Holistic Care for Aging People with Serious Illnesses

• PHI: New Report Reveals High Maternal Mortality Rates in Kern County and the Importance of Addressing Social & Economic Factors

• PHI: Experts Offer Advice on Working Out During Wildfire Smoke Events

• PHI: A Closer Look at Heat-Related Illness and Deaths: Who’s Most Vulnerable and What are Coping Strategies for Communities

• PHI: School Districts Come Together to Share Experiences, Strategies for Creating Healthier Learning Environments

• PHI: Shifting Investing Practices into Community Control

• PHI: The Healthy Places Index: Extreme Heat Edition

• Listen. Hesperian Health Guides: Decolonize Your Career in Global Health, A Shot in the Arm Podcast

• Listen. World Telehealth Initiative: Providing Essential Health Care Through Telehealth, Global Health Pursuit Podcast

• Listen. UCSF: The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health, As Precribed Podcast

• Watch. Fistula Foundation: Facing Fistula: One Woman’s Journey from “Cursed” to Cured.

From Our July 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Google‘s Medical AI Chatbot Is Already Being Tested in Hospitals [The Verge]

• Merck I Sabin Vaccine Institute: New Scheme Aims to Get Vaccines to Outbreaks Faster, Gavi Says [Reuters]

• UNICEF: Nine New African Countries to Receive Millions of Malaria Vaccines, GAVI Says [Reuters]

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: It’s Dawning on Humans That Human Health Connects to Everything [Forbes]

• PHI: How to Stay Cool During Heat Waves [KQED]

• UNICEF: Connecting the Dots Between Climate & Air Quality [Health Policy Watch]

• Stanford: Cooking with a Gas Stove May Be as Bad as Breathing Secondhand Cigarette Smoke, Study Finds [LA Times]

• Stanford: Air Quality Disasters Aren’t Going Away. Here’s How We Should Protect Ourselves, Opinion [LA Times]

• Merck for Mothers: How MSD Is Leveraging Innovative Finance to Advance Health Equity [Devex]

• Accenture ADP: Lessons from 20 Years of Accenture Development Partnerships, Opinion [Devex]

• ReSurge International: The Searing Disparity Between Burn Patients: A Hidden Gender Equity Issue [Think Global Health]

• GHC: Loyce Pace’s Enduring Fight for Equity, Including Her Own [Devex]

• Pfizer: CDC OKs Use of RSV Vaccine with Older Adults [Reuters]

• UCSF: Virus ‘Superspreaders’: No Link to Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms [Health Policy Watch]

• Friends of the Global Fight I Global Health Council: Learning Our Lessons: What’s Missing from Pandemic Preparedness, Opinion [Global Health NOW]

• Stanford: How Carolyn Bertozzi Developed Bioorthogonal Chemistry [Fast Company]

• UC Berkeley: Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine [New York Times]

• UC Davis: Why 4 Dead California Sea Otters Have Scientists So Alarmed [National Geographic]

• UC Davis: Why Thousands of Fish Washed Up on These Texas Beaches [NPR]

• Stanford Researchers Aim to Answer the Question: ‘How Do You Improve Air Quality in Schools?’ [The Almanac]

• UCSF: Nearly One-Third of Nation’s Homeless Population Lives in California, New Research Shows [USA Today]

• ReSurge International: Women Are Invaluable to Closing the Global Reconstructive Surgery Gap [Inkstep]

• Fistula Foundation: Fighting to Give Fistula Patients Dignity [People Daily Kenya]

• Roche Diagnostics Awarded WHO Prequalification for the Cobas® HPV Test, Increasing Access to Cervical Cancer Screening Tools in Low & Lower-Middle Income Countries [Yahoo Finance]

• Americares Sending Doctors, Medicine to Aid Haiti’s Depleted Hospitals Despite Gang Violence [Stamford Advocate]

• UNICEF Warns of Food Shortages at Overcrowded Haiti Camp [Reuters]

• UCSF: Food Insecurity Already Affects 12M US Homes—And Reductions in SNAP Benefits Won’t Help [The Conversation]

• Stanford: Why We Created a Chatbot to Help People at Risk for Eating Disorders [STAT]

• Chevron: Well-Being Works Better: The American Heart Association Is Empowering Leaders to Prioritize Employee Health [Forbes]

• Americares Delivers Over $3M in Urgently Needed Aid to Sri Lanka [Colombo Gazette]

• Watch. Seed Global Health: Vanessa Kerry Interview, @37:40 [BBC Newshour]

More Member News

• Seed Global Health CEO Dr. Vanessa Kerry Named WHO Special Envoy for Climate Change & Health

• GHTC Provides Recommendations for Pandemic Accord at HHS Listening Session

• Ipas I Nivi I PATH I Pathfinder I PSI: Open Letter to UN Member States for the Inclusion for Self-Care in the UHC Agenda

• PATH: How to Make Primary Health Care Work for Everyone

• Ipas: From Invisible to Indispensable

• Pfizer: Lessons Learned on the Journey to Help Close the Global Health Equity Gap

• Friends of the Global Fight Report: Putting People at the Center of Pandemic Preparedness

• Viamo: AI for All

• PSI: Using AI to Transform Nursing Education

• Google: How AI Is Helping Researchers to Expand Global Access to Maternal Healthcare

• Stanford: Where Generative AI Meets Healthcare: Updating the Healthcare AI Landscape

• JSI: Ethiopia Data Use Partnership

• Google: Report Patient Empowerment: What Is the Role of Technology in Transforming Care?

• PSI: Making a Catalytic Impact–Defining & Measuring Our Approach to Systems Change

• Ipas: The Global Impact of Roe’s Repeal

• JSI: Reflections on Person-Centered Care as Key in HIV Treatment Adherence

• GAIA I Gilead I PSI: Radical Partnerships to End the HIV Epidemic

• Friends of the Global Fight: Life Expectancy Gains in African Countries Demonstrate Global Fund’s Impact

• JSI: Hope Returns After Years Without HIV Treatment

• Mastercard: Keeping Track of Health Care Records, Keeping Children in Africa Healthy

• PHI Will Serve as a Regional Partner Under the Public Health Infrastructure Grant

• UC Berkeley: Shared Decision-Making Lowers Health Care Expenditures

• UC Davis: New Study: Bat-Borne Sarbecoviruses Spilled Over in Southeast Asia Pre-Pandemic

• UC Davis Veterinary Emergency Team Ready to Help Animals in Wildfires

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Leading Nurses Through Crises in Lebanon

• UNICEF Voices ‘Shock & Condemnation’ as Gender-Based Violence Soars Across Sudan

• Stanford: 5 Questions with Bert Patenaude on Saving Lives with Food & Medicine

• Hopelab Announces Investment in TRACE to Support the Mental Health of Transgender and Non-binary Youth

• Ipas: A Race Against Time

• PHI: Study Shows Prenatal Exposure to Anti-Nausea Drug Linked to Increased Risk of Colorectal Cancer

• PHI and Roots of Change Statement on Continued Funding of the California Nutrition Incentive Program in California’s 2023 State Budget

• PHI’s Center for Health Leadership and Impact Announces Role as TA Partner for CDC Public Health Infrastructure Grants

• PHI: Addressing the Rising Rates of Fatal Youth Opioid Overdoses in Santa Clara County

• PHI: Schools and Civic Groups Work Together to Advance Public Health Equity

• PHI: Public Health Schools, Civic Groups Work to Advance Health Equity in California

• PHI: Cancer Patients Skip Care Due to Clinicians’ Different Demographic Characteristics

• Roche Diagnostics Empowers Women to #Beyourownshero

• PSI: Making Tuberculosis Care Easier

• Planetary Health Alliance June News

• Eleanor Crook Foundation Partners to Explore Pairing Nutritional Supplement & Vaccine Delivery to Save More Lives

• JSI: Catching Up to the Challenge: Lessons Learned from Ethiopia’s Journey to Reach Missed Children

• Stanford Announces the 2023 Global Health Seed Grant Awardees

• Global Health Corps Introduces Its 2023 US Fellows

• Street Business School Wins iF Design Social Impact Prize

• AbbVie I Accenture I Gilead Sciences | Merck: Best Companies for Multicultural Women Winners, 2023

• Soul Machines Recognized as a Finalist of 2023 Microsoft Azure AI Partner of the Year

• AIfluence Wins the 2023 Kenya Visa Everywhere Initiative Finals

• Hopelab: Behavioral Health Tech Conference Launches Inaugural Young Innovators in Behavioral Health Awards Program

• Airbnb I Alliance: New Members Join Trust & Safety Advisory Coalition on One-Year Anniversary

• Listen. UC Berkeley: Can AI Improve Health Without Perpetuating Bias? The Dose Podcast, The Commonwealth Fund

• Watch. Google: Connecting Climate Change & Health

• Watch. UCSF’s Final Grand Rounds. What Have We Learned?

From Our June 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Pfizer Says Its Experimental Antibiotic Combo Can Treat Some Superbug Infections [Reuters]

• Fistula Foundation Receives $15M Donation from Mackenzie Scott [Mercury News]

• Stanford: Does Shingles Vaccination Cut Dementia Risk? Large Study Hints at a Link [Nature]

• Merck: Cancer Vaccines Poised to Unlock ‘New Treatment Paradigm’ with Merck/Moderna Data [Reuters]

• UC Davis: The Scientist & the Bats [Pro Publica]

• Google Cloud Is Partnering with Mayo Clinic as It Tries to Expand Use of Generative AI in Health Care [CNBC]

• Stanford: What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again? (Opinion) [New York Times]

• UCSF: Environmental Racism is Real. Ask Chicago. [Washington Monthly]

• UC Berkeley: After a Houston-Area Chemical Fire, Toxic Benzene Lingered for Weeks, Endangering Residents [Grist]

• PATH: ‘A Gamechanger’: New Meningitis Vaccine Hailed as Major Step [The Guardian]

• Stanford I UCSF: Scientists Find Brain Signals of Chronic Pain [New York Times]

• PSI: When Corporations Take Over Health Care (R. Greifinger Opinion) [New York Times]

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: Why You Should Still Be Washing Your Hands in 2023—Just Not for COVID [KQED]

• Stanford I UCSF: Why It Could Be Harder to Avoid Getting COVID in the Future [San Francisco Chronicle]

• UCSF Doctor Believes COVID-19 to Become Endemic This Year [ABC News]

• Pfizer‘s COVID Antiviral Paxlovid Gains Full US Approval [Reuters]

• Stanford: Academia’s Postdoc System Is Teetering, Imperiling Efforts to Diversify Life Sciences [STAT]

• Stanford I WomenLift Health: Stop Mothers Dying by Letting Women Lead Global Health, Opinion [Devex]

• Merck for Mothers: Detroit Women Unite to Transform Maternal and Infant Health [Michigan Chronicle]

• Seed Global Health: A Call to Improve Quality of Care for Pregnant Women & New-Borns [The Monitor]

• PATH: Saving African Babies’ Lives by Banking Mothers’ Milk [Christian Science Monitor]

• PHI: California Must Continue Funding Nutrition Incentive Program, Opinion [Capitol Weekly]

• PHI: Black Women in California Need More Than Short-Term Solutions for Maternal Health Disparities, Opinion [CalMatters]

• Medicines360 Appoints Andrea Olariu, MD, PhD as Chief Executive Officer [Yahoo Finance]

• Pfizer‘s Hemophilia Therapy Reduces Bleeding in Late-Stage Study [Reuters]

• Stanford: From Parachute Science to Community Engagement & Advocacy [Global Health Now]

• Living Goods Partners to Provide Community Health Services in Uganda [The Monitor]

• Global Health Corps: Ramps Constructed at Health Facilities in Lilongwe to Ease Mobility for Patients [Malawi News]

• Mastercard Foundation, Group Plan $45M for Vaccine Production [Punch Nigeria Limited]

• John Snow, Inc: Enhancing Healthcare Through Digitization [The Reporter Ethiopia]

• Pfizer: FDA Approves RSV Vaccine for Older Adults [STAT]

• Pfizer: FDA Panel Recommends the First Shot to Prevent RSV in Infants by Vaccinating Pregnant Mothers [CNN]

More Member News

• Stanford: Partnering for Health Equity & Global Health Education

• UC Berkeley: New Study Shows Prenatal Chemical Exposure Can Slow Development in Boys

• UCSF‘s Global Hub Website

• PATH: How Bag-Mediated Filtration Systems Are Revolutionizing Environmental Surveillance

• Vir Biotechnology Awarded $10M Grant from Gates Foundation to Develop HIV Vaccine

• Nivi Receives USAID Grant for Gender Accessibility in Health Chatbots

• PSI: How Can We Keep Up with Digital Health’s Fast-Paced Growth?

• UC Berkeley Public Health Report Reveals Impact of COVID-19 on Unhoused Youth

• PHI: New Report Shows Free Access to COVID Home Tests Works, Yet Some Still Face Challenges

• Seed Global Health Joins WHO Call for Global Climate Action to Create Resilient & Sustainable Health Systems

• UC Davis: A Sustainable Solution: Compostable Wind Turbine Blades

• Stanford: Addressing the Global Water Crisis Through Social Entrepreneurship

• UC Davis: Global Transition to Electric Vehicles Needs Urgent Support, Report Warns

• MedShare: Clean Birthing Kits Saving Lives In Haiti

• PSI & Organon Integrate Digital Solutions to Bring Reproductive Health Services Closer to 1M Women & Girls in Latin America

• Stanford: Centering Mothers & Families in the Care of Low-Weight Infants

• Ipas: New Study Further Highlights Need to Prioritize Reproductive Health Care in Fragile & Conflict-Afflicted Settings

• Global Fund for Women: Amplifying Youth Voices Will Only Strengthen the Global Menstrual Health Movement

• UNICEF Calls for Urgent Action to Respond to Alarming Levels of Increasing Sexual Violence Against Girls and Women in Eastern DRC

• Nivi Drives Equitable Health Access to Family Planning Services in Kenya

• Ipas: Safe Abortion Access for Women in Benin Is Now Effective

• Living Goods: Telemedicine Pilot Study to Improve Maternal, Newborn Health

• Planetary Health Alliance: Malaria Control in Pregnant Women & Children Under Five Years of Age in Resource-Limited Countries, Perspective from Tanzania & its Relation to Climate Change

• JSI: Our Commitment to Eliminating Cervical Cancer

• UC Berkeley: Deep Sleep May Mitigate Alzheimer’s Memory Loss, Berkeley Research Shows

• Friends of the Global Fight President Chris Collins’ Senate Testimony in Support of the Global Fund (FY 2024)

• PHI: Evidence-Based Care Models to Treat Substance Use Disorders Are Growing

• PHI: New Study Finds Availability of Alcohol To-Go Drinks & Home Delivery Soared During the First Year of the Pandemic

• PHI: Death of Stanislaus Teen Spurs Grassroots Campaign on the Dangers of Fentanyl

• PHI: Building Healthy Indoor Environments with Healthcare

• PHI: Spring 2023 Telehealth Policy Updates

• PHI: Challenges, Strategies and Systems of Care to Reverse the Bay Area Fentanyl Crisis

• PATH: Reaching 9M Children with Vaccines in Malawi

• Simprints: A Responsible Biometric Deployment Handbook

• UCGHI: Community-Building as Resilience-Building: The Power of Support Groups for HIV-Positive Trans Mental Health Services

• Chevron: A Prescription for Community Health in Argentina

• PATH to Address Public Health Challenges in the Middle East & Globally

• Stanford: The Spice Sellers’ Secret: A Hunt for the Sources of Lead Poisoning in Bangladesh

• ReSurge International: One Year Later: The 2022–23 Matolase Mtonga Scholars

• Listen. L.E.K. Consulting: Tackling the Healthcare Workforce Shortage on Insights Exchange Podcast

• Listen. PSI‘s Eva Lathrop on Safeguarding Abortion in the US After Roe v. Wade, Hey Changemaker Podcast

• Listen. UC Berkeley: Future Public Health Leaders, VA Rural Health Association Podcast

• Watch. Friends of the Global Fight: Putting Out Fires: How Health Systems Can Fight Pandemics

• Watch. PHI: Better Data for More Equitable Public Health Research

• Watch. CUGH: Landscape of Global Health

• Watch. UCSF Teach-In: Responding to the Earthquakes in Syria & Turkey

• Watch. Maya Health Alliance: More Opportunities for Mothers in Rural Guatemala

• Watch. GHTC I Gilead Sciences I Merck for Mothers: Devex Checkup @ WHA 76

• Watch. MedShare Celebrates 25 Years of Service to the Global Community

• Watch. Baraka Impact Finance: Catalyzing Private Capital for Health Innovation in Emerging Economies

From Our May 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Seed Global Health: The Global North Can’t Solve Its Health Care Worker Shortage by Recruiting from the Global South, Opinion [STAT]

• Stanford: Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Live in Communities with Harmful Air Quality, Study Shows [Inside Climate News]

• Americares: Deadly Heat Waves Threaten Older People as Summer Nears [AP News]

• Ipas: In Coastal Bangladesh, Climate Change Devastates Women’s Reproductive Health [NBC News]

• UC Berkeley: The Devil Lurking in the Dust [Vox]

• UCSF: Led by Students, a Nascent Climate Movement Is Taking Hold in Medical Education [STAT]

• UNICEF Designed a Plan to Save 300,000 Somali Children from Severe Malnutrition [Fast Company]

• UCSF: Oakland’s Soda Tax Cut Local Sales by 27% [US News & World Report]

• PATH: Following Kenya, Malawi Appears Ready to Ratify the African Medicines Agency Treaty [Health Policy Watch]

• PHI: Organizations Help to Address Mental Health Needs of Afghan Youth [Comstock’s Magazine]

• Center for Global Health Innovation: Seizing the Opportunity for Atlanta to Lead in Global Health Innovation [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

• Stanford I UCSF: Why Viral Reservoirs Are a Prime Suspect for Long COVID Sleuths [NPR]

• UNICEF: COVAX Vaccines Helped Avert 2.7M COVID Deaths—But Could Have Saved More with Stable Regional Supplies [Health Policy Watch]

• Google Is Training Its Generative AI to Analyze Medical Images—and Talk to Doctors About Them [STAT+]

• Stanford: 4 Ways the Health Care System Should Shift Its Thinking on AI, According to Experts [STAT+]

• UCSF: A Research Team Airs the Messy Truth About AI in Medicine—And Gives Hospitals a Guide to Fix It [STAT]

• UC Davis Study Reveals How Memory T Cells Induce Immunity in People with Salmonella Disease [India Times]

• World Telehealth Initiative: Providing a Philanthropic Global Healthcare Solution from Santa Barbara [Santa Barbara Independent]

• Global Fund for Women CEO on Women Leadership Heading Into 2024 Presidential Election [Philadelphia 17]

• UNICEF: Why Millions of Kids Aren’t Getting Their Routine Vaccinations [NPR]

• UNICEF: Why Investing in Cold Chain Technologies Will Improve Health Outcomes [Think Global Health]

• UC Davis: Axolotls & Capybaras Are TikTok Famous—And That Could Be a Problem [National Geographic]

• Stanford: The Apparent Poisoning of Schoolgirls Is Just One Part of Iran’s Health Crisis, Opinion [STAT]

• UNICEF: More than 1M Polio Vaccines Destroyed in Sudan [Reuters]

• UC Davis a Model for a Post-Affirmative Action World [Mercury News]

• Listen. UC Berkeley: US Life Expectancy Falls Behind That of Other Developed Nations. Why? [KQED]

More Member News

• Stanford: Michele Barry: Women in Global Health Need to Take Lead in Climate Crisis

• Pfizer & Thermo Fisher Scientific Partner to Expand Localized Access to Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Testing for Cancer Patients in International Markets

• Ipas: To Solve the Climate Crisis, Focus on Women

• UC Berkeley: As Rising Seas Disrupt Toxic Sites, Communities of Color Are at Most Risk

• Stanford: Eco-Curriculum: A Student Channels Climate Fears Into Advocating for New Medical School Courses

• UCSF: Global Health & Climate Change: How to Achieve Progress on Both Through Smarter Investments

• Stanford: 5 Questions with Barbara Erny: Educating Doctors About Climate Change

• Ipas: Abortion with Pills

• PSI: How Digitization Is Revolutionizing Contraceptive Counseling

• PSI: It’s Abortion Care Today. What’s Next?

• UC Davis: How UC Research Is Ensuring a Future for 10 Iconic Animals

• PHI: Challenges AAPI Youth Face in Accessing Mental Health Services

• PHI: An In-Depth Look at Telemedicine Regulations and Prescribing Controlled Drugs

• PHI: Video Snapshot 4: How the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule can Advance Racial and Health Equity

• PHI: Providing the Missing Middle Link in Creation of West Coast Regional Regenerative Meat Supply Chains

• PHI: Public Health Schools, Civic Groups Work to Advance Health Equity in California

• PHI: Community, COVID, and Power Sharing with Lisa Tealer

• PHI Study on San Francisco Soda Tax Highlighted in San Francisco Chronicle

• PHI: Experts Weigh in on Chemicals in Bay Area Drinking Water

• Stanford: Caring for Migrants at the Border

• PATH: Universal Health Coverage: 5 Ways to Get There Faster

• Global Health Technologies Coalition: World Malaria Day 2023: Quiz on Malaria Innovations

• Global Health Technologies Coalition: Second Malaria Vaccine Approval, Genomic Sequencing in Africa, New US Coronavirus Program

• JSI: RTS,S Malaria Vaccine, a Promising Tool in the Fight Against Malaria

• Nivi: Working to Eradicate Malaria in Nigeria

• Chevron‘s Malaria Efforts

• UC Davis: Study Predicts Poor Survival Rates if Ebola Infects Endangered Mountain Gorillas

• PATH: Reaching Cervical Cancer Elimination Goals with HPV Vaccines

• IDEO.org I PSI: Leveraging a Network of Health Workers to Connect Ethiopia’s Hardest-to-Reach Couples

• Living Goods: Digitally Empowered Community Health Workers Are Boosting Vaccination Rates in Kenya & Uganda

• MedShare: Bringing State-of-the-Art Health Care to the Dominican Republic

• MedShare: Clean Birthing Kits Saving Lives in Haiti

• Google: How We’re Supporting Access to Emergency Maternal Care in Nigeria

• illuminAid I Pathfinder’s Use of ICT4D in Mozambique

• UC Berkeley Research Team Wins $100K Prize for Long COVID-19 Prediction Model

• ReSurge International | Global Health Council: Bridging the Global Reconstructive Surgery Gap

• Mastercard Launches New Suite of Solutions Dedicated to Women Entrepreneurs

• Global Health Corps: Advancing Gender Equity Through Global Health Leadership Development

• Center for Global Health Innovation Announces Leadership Changes

• UC Berkeley: Cheri Pies: A Beloved Mentor & National Leader in Women’s Health & Social Justice

• UNICEF: The State of the World’s Children 2023

• UNICEF: Is an End to Child Marriage Within Reach?

• PHI’s Children’s Cancer Program Plays Critical Role in Health Outcomes, Increased Access to Health Services for Youth

• PSI: Why Is Middleware Critical for Scaling Consumer Digital Health Interventions?

• JSI: Strengthening Immunization Services Through Person-Centered Care

• Hesperian Health Guides: New Book: Where Women Have No Doctor

• PHI: ‘Cherished Futures’ Advances Health, Racial Equity for Black Women, Babies & Birthing People in Los Angeles County

• JSI: Using Cell Phone Calendars to Increase Childhood Vaccinations

• Sabin Welcomes 7 New Partners into Its 2023-2024 Social & Behavioral Research Grants Program

• Global Health Corps: Fueling the Movement of Health Equity

• UCSF I UC Berkeley: Editing Genes in the Microbiome to Prevent Disease

• Planetary Health Alliance‘s Expand Initiative

• WHO Multi-Country Study Assesses a Smartphone Blood Pressure Application

• UC Davis Veterinary School Retains #1 in Nation

• Maya Health Alliance Named Lever for Change Maternal & Infant Health Award Finalist

• Friends of the Global Fight Comments at Pandemic Preparedness & Response & UHC HLM Multistakeholder Meeting

• L.E.K. Consulting: The LatAm Digital Landscape in Healthcare: Where Are the Opportunities Today?

• UCSF I CHESA: 2022 Annual Report, Global Surgery

• PHI: We Are All Public Health, 2022 Annual Report

• GAIA Global Health 2022 Annual Report

• Chevron: Partnering for Health Equity, 2022 Corporate Sustainability Report (p. 37)

• Listen. PSI: Leveraging a Venture Mindset in Philanthropy: Investing in Bold, Unproven Ideas, We Are for Good Podcast

• Listen. UCSF: HIV Prevention for Girls & Women—Real Choice, Not Theoretical Options on Shot in the Arm Podcast

• Watch. Maya Health Alliance: “I Felt Safe During My First Birth at the Hospital”

From Our April 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Pfizer I Stanford I UCSF: Status List 2023 [STAT]

• UC Davis: Can We Make Gorillas Sick? Study Reveals Much About Them—And Us. [Washington Post]

• Gilead Sciences Details Promising Early COVID Antiviral Data, Setting up Larger Studies [Reuters]

• UCSF: America Shut Down in Response to COVID. Would We Ever Do It Again? [Washington Post]

• Stanford: ‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the CDC as the Pandemic Erupted [New York Times]

• UNICEF: Mozambique Begins Massive Post-Cyclone Cholera Vaccination Drive [VOA]

• UCSF: JAMA’s New Editor Settles In, Bringing Open Access & Other Changes [STAT]

• UC Davis: Bird Flu: What Is It & What’s Behind the Outbreak? [BBC]

• UC Berkeley: 119K People Hurt by Riot-Control Weapons Since 2015 [AP News]

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: WHO Ready for Marburg Vaccine Trials, Awaits Nod from Governments [Health Policy Watch]

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Why an Outbreak of Marburg Could Help Us Test a New Vaccine [Daily Beast]

• San Francisco Community Health Center: ‘We Deserve This Space’: SF Invests in Trans Community at a Time of Conservative Ire [San Francisco Chronicle]

• Merck for Mothers: Elevating Women’s Voices for Quality Maternal Healthcare [The Guardian, Nigeria]

• UCSF: White House Disbanding Its COVID-19 Team in May [Washington Post]

• Stanford: COVID-Origins Data from Wuhan Market Published: What Scientists Think [Nature]

• Pfizer: FDA Expands Authorization of Bivalent COVID-19 Shots in Kids [Reuters]

• PATH: The Next Pandemic? Here Are Emerging Viruses Local Researchers Are Studying to Be Prepared [NBC-KingTV]

• UC Davis: Unusual Parasite Killing Sea Otters Off California Coast, Scientists Warn [LA Times]

• UCSF: Gov. Newsom Announces New Vision for San Quentin State Prison: ‘We Have Failed for Too Long’ [ABC News]

• Stanford I UC Berkeley: A Devastating Skin Condition Could Soon Get Its First Medication, as the Frontiers of Gene Therapy Expand [STAT +]

• Stanford: In the War on Bacteria, It’s Time to Call in the Phages [Wired]

• San Francisco Community Health Center: Some STIs Down in SF Last Year [Bay Area Reporter]

• Stanford: Getting COVID-19 Could Weaken Your Immune System [Time]

• UNICEF: The Messy Business of Sanitation & Toilets [Devex]

• Stanford: Will There Be Any Emergency Doctors to See You in the Future?, Opinion [STAT]

• Listen. Global Fund for Women‘s Latanya Mapp Frepp [Bloomberg Business Week Podcast]

• Watch. UCSF Doctor Believes Next Pandemic Will Be Tougher to Fight [NBC Bay Area]

• Watch. UCSF Infectious Disease Specialist on New COVID Study [NBC Bay Area]

• Watch. UC Davis: An Epidemiologist’s Take on Zoonotic Disease and COVID-19 [Discover Magazine]

More Member News

• Mastercard Foundation Health Collaborative Allocates $1M for Prospective Entrepreneurs

• PHI Ranked One of 50 “Best Nonprofits to Work For” in the US, 2023

• UCSF Global Health Leader Jaime Sepúlveda Prepares to Step Down

• Stanford: Wastewater Could Be the Key to Tracking More Viruses than Just COVID-19

• Ipas: Putting Politics over Health: Targeting Medication Abortion

• UC Berkeley: Mental Health of Young Latinx Adults Worsened During Pandemic

• PHI: Report: See Her Bloom—Understanding Black Girls’ Experiences with Drug Use

• Pathfinder: The Transformative Power of Our Climate Resilience Innovations

• Stanford: How Human Environmental Pressures Impact Disease

• Stanford: Study Deepens Link Between Trash, Mosquito-Borne Disease

• Stanford: How Well Do Large Language Models Support Clinician Information Needs?

• Stanford: SARS-CoV-2 Infection Weakens Immune-Cell Response to Vaccination

• Americares: Clean Water Flows at Kibondo Hospital

• UNICEF: A Triple Threat of Water-Related Crises Is Endangering the Lives of 190 Million Children

• UC Berkeley: Black, Latinx Californians Face Highest Exposure to Oil & Gas Wells

• PHI: Latinos are Underrepresented in News About Racial Equity, New Study Shows

• PHI: SB344 Introduced by Sen. Rubio to Protect California Cancer Registry

• PHI: NBC Spotlight: Latinos Underrepresented in News Coverage About Racial Equity

• PHI: Videos: How to Engage Youth in Opioid Use Prevention

• Gilead Sciences Rallies Around White House Efforts to End the HIV Epidemic

• PSI: Solutions Without Borders: Funding Community-Driven Solutions for HIV Interventions

• UC Berkeley: California Pharmacists Face Barriers to Offer HIV Medications

• Friends of the Global Fight: US Global Health Investments & Pandemic Preparedness

• GAIA Provides Relief from the Devastating Impact of Tropical Cyclone Freddy

• Ipas Staff Look to Response Efforts in Areas Impacted by Cyclone Freddy That Protect Reproductive Health

• PATH: Private Sector Engagement for Digitizing Health Care in India

• MedShare: Turkey/Syria Earthquake Response Continues

• JSI: One Young Woman’s TB Advocacy Inspires a Village

• Friends of the Global Fight: The Doctors Risking It All to Fight TB in Ukraine

• PSI: Digital Data Collection for Malaria Elimination

• GHTC Sends FY24 Letters to Congressional Appropriators

• IDEO.org: Activating Rohingya Faith Leaders as Health Ambassadors

• Fistula Foundation: Vote for this Classy Award Finalist!

• ReSurge International: Introducing the Third PWRS Cohort

• PSI: Investing in Women’s Health Makes Good Business Sense; Period

• Global Fund for Women’s Latanya Mapp Frett’s Book, The Everyday Feminist

• Stanford: The Power of Global Engagement, Q&A with Ana Crawford

• Vir CEO, Marianne de Backer, Eyes Expansion Beyond Infectious Disease

• JSI: Advancing Person-Centered Maternal Care for Ethiopian Girls & Women

• UNICEF USA: Undernourished & Overlooked: New Report Reveals Global Nutrition Crisis for Women & Girls

• PATH: Developing a More Affordable Pneumococcal Vaccine

• JSI: Learning from Social Movements: Transforming Systems to Reduce Disparities in Black Maternal Morbidity & Mortality

• PSI: An Approach to More Impactful Philanthropy

• Washington Global Health Alliance: Celebrating Women, Leaders in Global Health, & Three Years Later

• PSI: Microsoft Africa Development Center Hosts Universities for Hackathon, Unleashing Digital Solutions That Advance Universal Health Coverage

• Listen. ReSurge International: CEO Claire Lachance on Waves of Change Podcast

• Listen. Friends of the Global Fight: The Shape of Pandemic Preparedness Is Being Decided. Now Is the Time for Collective Action, Px Pulse Podcast

• Listen. ReSurge International | Stanford: The ReSurgence of Global Safe & Affordable Surgical Care

• Watch. PHI: Lessons from the Field: Centering Community

From Our March 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• UC Davis: How One Medical School Became Remarkably Diverse—Without Considering Race in Admissions [STAT]

• UCSF: Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments [Scientific American]

• UC Berkeley: Teen Girls ‘Engulfed’ in Violence & Trauma, CDC Finds [Washington Post]

• PHI: Big Soda’s Alcohol Drinks Worry Health Experts [New York Times]

• Stanford: Research on Climate Change & Health Reveals Risks for Older Adults: A Q&A with Dr. Andrew Chang [San Francisco Public Press]

• Pfizer Shot Recommended by FDA Advisers: Paving the Way for the World’s First RSV Vaccine [NBC]

• PATH I Pfizer: The Race to an RSV Vaccine Could Soon Be Over, Decades After the First Attempt [NBC News]

• Stanford: Seeding Hope [Pro Publica]

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: WHO Hopes to Test an Experimental Marburg Virus Vaccine amid an Outbreak in Equatorial Guinea [NBC News]

• Google‘s Big Health Care Play [Politico]

• Google I Meta I UCSF: Artificial Intelligence Was Supposed to Transform Health Care. It Hasn’t. [Politico]

• UNICEF: The Silent Toll of War: Ukraine’s Growing Mental Health Crisis [Axios]

• UC Berkeley: Kids’ Glyphosate Exposure Linked to Liver Disease and Metabolic Syndrome [Environmental Health News]

• UCSF: The Future of Long COVID [The Atlantic]

• CUGH: Commentary: Health in Global Biodiversity Governance: What Is Next? [Lancet]

• Stanford: Growing Signs of New Bay Area COVID Wave as Wastewater Counts Soar [SF Chronicle]

• UCSF: Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback [Undark]

• Stanford: In Theranos’ Backyard, a Health Tech Leader Takes Another Crack at Better Blood Tests [STAT]

• UC Berkeley: This Deadly Chemical Should Be Banned, Opinion [New York Times]

• Stanford I UC Berkeley: Can AI Treat Mental Illness? [New Yorker]

• UC Davis: Eagles Are Falling, Bears Are Going Blind [The Atlantic]

• Watch. Americares Sending Its Largest Aid Shipment to Turkey After Devasting Earthquake [Fox61]

• Listen. UC Berkeley: Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions with Data with Ziad Obermeyer on Me, Myself & AI Podcast [MIT Sloan Management Review]

• Watch. UC Davis: Is Climate Change Accelerating the Risk of Disease Spreading from Animals to Humans? [PBS]

More Member News

• PHI‘s Mary Pittman Named as a Top 2023 Woman Leader in Healthcare

• UC Davis: Kreuder Johnson Named Director of Institute for Pandemic Intelligence

• Accenture | L.E.K. Consulting: G. Wong & N. Sunderji Named Among 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco

• Maya Health Alliance‘s Gabriela Montenegro-Bethancourt Awarded the 2023 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award

• UC Berkeley: Filipa Rijo-Ferreira Receives Hypothesis Fund Seed Grant

• Chevron‘s Huma Abbasi on Lessons from Contagion

• JSI: Improving Health Outcomes for Women & Their Communities

• Stanford-Led Analysis Could Help Forecast Malaria Outbreaks

• Merck for Mothers Announces Sixth Round of Grants in Its Global Grants Program

• Ipas I Nivi: Partnering to Improve Contraceptive Access After Abortion

• Pathfinder International Receives $39M from USG for Family Planning & Reproductive Health Program in Egypt

• Ipas: What Would a World Free from Abortion Stigma Look Like?

• MedShare Responds to the Medical Crisis in Turkey & Syria

• UNICEF Joins WHO to Launch Cholera Vaccination Campaign in NW Syria Amidst Earthquake Response

• Americares Sends Nearly 3 Tons of Urgently Needed Aid to Sri Lanka

• Meta Collaborates to Promote Medical Preparedness for Disasters

• PSI: For Better Health Outcomes, Combine an AI Symptom Checker with a Health Provider Locator

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Five Things You Need to Know About Equatorial Guinea’s Marburg Outbreak

• Global Health Technologies Coalition Reflects on USAID Report That Gives Unprecedented Insight into Health R&D Programs

• PATH I UNICEF: Celebrating Progress Toward Better Oxygen Access: Year 1 of Malawi’s Oxygen Roadmap

• Living Goods Launches Learning Site in Burkina Faso

• UNICEF: Undernourished & Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls & Women

• UC Berkeley: New Rural Health Innovation Program Will Launch the Next Generation of Rural Public Health Leaders

• Mastercard: Urgent Support to Avert COVID-19 Vaccines Expiry in Africa, Africa CDC

• Fistula Foundation: Breaking Ground for Better Care in Zambia

• PHI Study Finds Telehealth Helped Bridge Striking Inequities in Healthcare Access During Pandemic

• illuminAid Completes Agriculture Video Education Workshop with USAID in Honduras

• PSI: No, ChatGPT Didn’t Write This

• Stanford‘s Digital Medic Equips Community Health Workers Worldwide to Promote Vaccines

• Stanford Digital Medic: Routine Childhood Immunization: Pictorial Education Cards for Caregivers

• World Telehealth Initiative Delivers Vital Healthcare to Front Lines in Ukraine

• Global Fund for Women: Black History Month 2023: Celebrating #EverydayFeminists in Philanthropy

• UC Global Health Institute: How a UC Scholar & UC Faculty Member Are Centering Black Health

• Pathfinder International I PSI: Walking the Talk: Incorporating DEI into Values, Policies, & Practices

• UCSF: Closing the Equity Gap in Science

• UC Berkeley: Historic Redlining Negatively Impacts Maternal Health Almost a Century On

• UC Berkeley I UCSF: Neighborhood Racial & Economic Privilege & Timing of Pubertal Onset in Girls

• PSI: Making It Easier for Consumers to Navigate Their Mixed Health System

• Friends of the Global Fight: US Investment Case for the Global Fund FY 2024

• Friends of the Global Fight: What $2B Buys

• Friends of the Global Fight: Overview of the Global Fund’s Unique Approach

• UCSF: Ward 86 at 40: Shaping HIV Care Around the World

• Gilead Presents Positive Proof-of-Concept Data for Investigational Combination Regimen of Lenacapavir with Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies as a Potential Twice-Yearly Approach for the Treatment of HIV

• Gilead Presents New Data from HIV Cure Research Program & Collaborations Exploring Novel Investigational Combinations & Strategies

• PATH: Centralized Procurement Mechanism for Oxygen Compressor Service Kits

• Stanford CIGH: New Report Calls for Investment in Climate-Resilient California School Infrastructure

• PHI: Case Studies & Best Practices: Strategies to Reduce Youth Overdoses

• PHI: Addressing Meth as Growing Public Health Crisis in Oakland

• PHI: Ruth Thomas-Squance Celebrated as Black Leader and Champion for Health Equity

• PHI: Partnering with CBOs to Strengthen Their Capacity to Respond to COVID

• PHI: Effective Approaches to Addressing Substance Use Among Youth

• PHI: Well-being Clinics Key to Building Trust, Advancing Vaccine Equity in African American and Refugee Communities

• PHI: Addressing Meth as Growing Public Health Crisis in Oakland

• PHI: SB344 Introduced by Sen. Rubio to Protect California Cancer Registry

• PHI: Podcast: Flipping the Table

• PHI: PHI/CDC Global Health Podcast: Stories from the Field

• PHI: Advancing Racial Equity in State Governments

• PHI: Ventura County Wildfire Alerts Offered in Indigenous Languages to Protect Farmworkers

• ReSurge International 2022 Annual Report: A New Era of Impact

• Living Goods 2022 Year-End Report

• UC Davis: OHI Team Receives Funding for Digital Technology Development

• Watch. CUGH: Research & Action to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

• Watch. JSI: Ethiopia Data Use Partnership

• Watch. UC Berkeley: Connect the Bay: Mental Health with Stephen Shortell

From Our Februrary 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Ipas: Global Reproductive Justice Is What We Need Right Now [Ms.Magazine]

• PATH: How Breast Milk Banks Could Avert the Next Formula Crisis [National Geographic]

• Fistula Foundation: Preventable but Prevalent: An Injury Affecting Millions of Mothers [Think Global Health]

• UC Davis: Cervical Cancer Deaths Are Increasing Among Older California Women: Study [The Hill]

• Gilead: Discovering New Therapies in Breast Cancer: Addressing Unmet Needs [STAT]

• UCSF I UC Berkeley: AI Has Successfully Imitated Human Evolution—And Might Do It Even Better [Yahoo Finance]

• Eleanor Crook Foundation: Open Philanthropy Awards $150M to High-Impact Grantmakers [Philanthropy News Digest]

• Ending Pandemics: Flu, MERS & Ebola—The Disease Outbreaks Most Frequently Reported [Nature]

• San Francisco Community Health Center: HIV Is Treatable, but Homelessness Can Make It Fatal [Vice]

• UNICEF: Global Push to Treat HIV Leaves Children Behind [New York Times]

• UCSF: Why Inventing a Vaccine for AIDS Is Tougher than for COVID [NPR Goats & Soda]

• Friends of the Global Fight: PEPFAR: 20 Years of Making the Impossible, Possible

• Friends of the Global Fight: Congress’s Bipartisan Deal to Spend Billions More Fighting HIV & Malaria Abroad [Vox]

• UNICEF USA: Progress in the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases [Forbes]

• PHI: Health Experts Say San Francisco’s Soda Tax Is Working [Axios]

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Global Immunization Efforts Need a New BRAVE & BOLD Approach, Opinion [Devex]

• Stanford: US Should Expand Rules for Risky Virus Research to More Pathogens, Panel Says [Science]

• UC Davis: Sea Lions, Seals Might Be Hampering WA Salmon Recovery. What Can Be Done? [Seattle Times]

• UCSF: What Older Americans Need to Know About Taking Paxlovid [KHN]

• UCSF: COVID-19 Deaths in the US Continue to Be Undercounted, Research Shows, Despite Claims of ‘Overcounts’ [The Conversation]

• PHI: Latino Teenagers Are Trained to Influence People Who Are Not Vaccinated Against COVID [Los Angeles Times, in Spanish]

• UC Berkeley: After a Tragic Workplace Mass Shooting, One Bay Area City Got Tougher on Guns. Did It Work? [San Francisco Chronicle]

• UNICEF: A COVID-19 Initiative for Vaccine Delivery Is Winding Down [Devex]

• UC Berkeley: COVID-19 Spike Protein Could Cause Blood Vessel Leaks, Possible Organ Failure [CBS News Bay Area]

• Merck I Pfizer: US FDA Removes Test Requirements for COVID Treatments [Reuters]

• Pfizer to Sell All Its Drugs in Low-Income Countries at Non-Profit Price [Reuters]

• UC Berkeley: FDA Approves Simplifying COVID-19 Vaccine [Spectrum News 1]

• Stanford: ‘Died Suddenly’ Posts Twist Tragedies to Push Vaccine Lies [AP]

• Pfizer I Stanford: Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even Starts [The Atlantic]

• Merck I Pfizer I Vir Biotechnology: The NIH-Led Research Response to COVID-19 [Science]

• UC Berkeley: As California’s Climate Heats Up, Valley Fever Spikes — Especially on Central Coast [Mercury News]

• UC Berkeley: EPA’s Proposed Air Pollution Standards for Soot Could Save Thousands of Lives [Grist]

• Stanford: The Nipah Virus Has a Kill Rate of 70%. Bats Carry It. But How Does It Jump to Humans? [NPR Goats & Soda]

• UC Berkeley: When the Doctor Doesn’t Listen [.coda]

• San Francisco Community Health Center: Medical Specialists Take Care of People Who Live on the Street [Univision]

• Simprints Commits to Cambridge Judge Drive to Enhance Social Impact [Business Weekly]

• Stanford: Bay Area Biotech Uses AI to Unlock RNA Structures—& Find New Therapies in the Process [STAT+]

• Americares I PATH I PSI Named Top 100 Charities [Forbes]

• Merck I Pfizer I Gilead Sciences: 100 Most Sustainable Companies of 2023 Still Flourishing in Tumultuous Times [Corporate Knights]

• Vir Biotechnology CEO George Scangos to Retire, After Pandemic Success [STAT+]

• Watch. PSI: NGO Leaders on the Challenges Ahead [Devex Pro]

• Watch. UC Davis‘ Jonna Mazet & Watriona Smith: International Cooperation for the Future of Pandemic Preparation [Wilson Center]

• Listen. Ipas: The Global Impact of Dobbs with Dr. Anu Kumar [Mornings with Zerlina]

More Member News

• Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $35M from BARDA for Ebola Sudan & Marburg Vaccines

• OmniVis: Purdue Ag-Celerator Fund Invests $100,000

• PATH Welcomes WHO Executive Board Decision to Adopt Landmark Oxygen Resolution

• GHTC: Recommendations for the Pandemic & All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) of 2023

• Global Fund for Women: Latanya Mapp Frett’s New Book, The Everyday Feminist

• PSI: Scaling Digital Solutions Improves Health Security—Locally & Globally

• JSI: 4 Ways Our Work Aligns with USAID’s Local Capacity Strength

• UC Davis Veterinary Innovations Featured on Voice of America

• Stanford Human & Planetary Health Course Empowers Students with Tools for Change to Benefit Both Human Health & the Environment

• PHI: Are California’s Local Health Departments Resourced to Address Climate-Driven Disasters?

• GHTC: WHO Executive Board Preview: The Next Chapter for the Global Health Architecture

• Global Health Council: The State of Global Food Security in 2023

• UCSF: IGHS & the Department of Emergency Medicine Expand Role Supporting the WHO’s Global Emergency, Critical & Operative Care Efforts

• UNICEF: Eight Trends That Will Impact Children in 2023

• IDEO.org: Looking Ahead to 2023

• Google: How to Use Search to Help Manage Uncertain Times

• UNICEF: Ukraine War Disrupts Education for More than 5M Children

• Stanford: The Rebirth of Psychedelic Medicine

• Google I UC Berkeley I WHO: Explore Arts + Health & Wellbeing

• UC Global Health Institute: Former GloCal Fellow Archana Siddaiah Publishes Book on Mental Health

• Ipas I Nivi: New Features & Content Bolster Nivi’s Digital Health Marketplace

• JSI: We Need Better Service Experience to Build Resilient Health Systems, Opinion

• IDEO.org: Billion Girls Colab

• UNICEF: Nearly 240M Children with Disabilities Around the World, Comprehensive Statistical Analysis Finds

• UCSF: Nairobi Meeting Launches Action Plan for Equitable Global Health Partnerships

• PHI: Advancing Birth Equity in Los Angeles County: Clinic Interview Findings & the Impact of Structural Racism in Black Neighborhoods

• UC Berkeley: Pain of Police Killings Ripples Outward to Traumatize Black People & Communities Across US

• Center for Global Health Innovation: Making Global Health Knowledge Accessible

• JSI: Person-Centered TB Care in Kyrgyzstan: Going the Extra Mile

• GAIA Global Health: Nursing Fellows Give Their All in Malawi to Fill Health Workforce Gaps

• UC Berkeley: Vaccination Provides Effective Protection Against Increased Risk of Pregnancy Complications Due to COVID-19 Omicron Variant

• Accenture ADP I JSI I PATH: The MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation & Equity Project

• PATH: What Would Success Look Like for a Shigella Vaccine?

• OmniVis Named Among Most Fundable Companies

• San Francisco Community Health Center: What’s Tea?

• JSI I UNICEF: Using Behavioral Science to Understand Under-Vaccination in Kathmandu

• Pathfinder International: Advancing Adolescent & Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health in Bangladesh

• PSI: Taking on Cervical Cancer by Integrating Family Planning in Mozambique

• JSI: Stories of Capacity Development: Changing COVID-19 Perceptions in Ethiopia Through a Women-Led Organization

• PSI: Making Pregnancy Safer in Somaliland with Post-Abortion Care

• Stanford: Providing High-Quality Care & Understanding

• UNICEF Helps to Protect People in Aleppo from Cholera

• Chevron Awarded Platinum Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America

• PHI: Evaluation Briefs—Together Toward Health’s Community-Driven COVID Response

• Friends of the Global Fight: The Global HIV Response as a Pathway to Stronger Pandemic Preparedness

• Global Health Council: Spotlight: Non-Communicable Diseases Roundtable

• PATH: Six Essential Steps to Expanding Health Product Manufacturing in Africa

• PATH: Advancing Transgender Health Care in Vietnam

• PHI: COVID-19 Study Finds Striking Inequities in Access to Healthcare During the Pandemic

• PHI: Podcast: Equity and Land Conservation with Shelana deSilva

• PHI: Report: Engaging Community Members and Key Stakeholders in the Development of a Birth Equity Hospital Designation

• PHI: Telehealth Policy Webinar Series: Crossing State Lines

• PHI: Policies Play Critical Role in Reducing Asthma’s Burden on Low-Income, Communities of Color in California

• PHI: KCBS Radio: San Francisco’s Soda Tax a Deterrent for Sugary Drinks

• PHI: Latinx Youth Serve as Health Educators to Improve Vaccine Rates in Their Communities

• PHI: Creating A Catalyst for Change: New Policies Support Communities Most Affected by Chronic Asthma

• PHI: Global Fellowship Program Expands by 43% to Prepare More Diverse Leaders in Public Health

• PSI Welcomes New Board Members

• Center for Global Health Innovation Selects Former American Cancer Society CEO, Gary M. Reedy, as Chairman of Their Board

• Chevron: Runners Go the Distance for Houston Community

• Watch. PSI: International & Local—Being Both, Humentum Webinar

From Our January 2023 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Ending Pandemics: Inevitable Outbreaks: How to Stop an Age of Spillovers from Becoming an Age of Pandemics [Foreign Affairs]

• JSI: Reimagining Technical Assistance to Shift Power, Opinion [Devex]

• Ipas: Many ERs Offer Minimal Care for Miscarriage. One Group Wants That to Change [NPR]

• Merck I Sabin Vaccine Institute: Vaccine Trial Against Sudan Ebolavirus–With No Recent Infections in Uganda, What’s Plan B? [Health Policy Watch]

• PATH: The Slow Roll-Out of the World’s First Malaria Vaccine [Nature]

• Pfizer in Talks with China for Generic COVID Drug [Reuters]

• UCSF: How the Monkeypox Outbreak Revealed the Path for Vanquishing Viruses [Washington Post]

• Gilead Sciences: FDA Approves Long-Acting HIV Drug Sunlenca [Reuters]

• Zipline Is Now the National Drone Service Provider for Rwanda [TechCrunch]

• Meta: Fentanyl Awareness Campaign Urges Parents to ‘Drop the F-Bomb’ with Their Kids [Wall Street Journal]

• Pfizer‘s Hemophilia B Gene Therapy Succeeds in Late-Stage Study [Reuters]

• UC Berkeley: What to Know as New COVID Virus Variants Like XBB.1.5 Spread Fast Across the US [The Mercury News]

• MedShare Helps Ease Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine [KTVN 2News]

• Pfizer Explores Options for Some Rare Disease, Cancer Drugs [Reuters]

• Google Research Co-Launches an AI-Based Healthcare Language Model [Tech Times]

• UCSF: New Guidance for Treating Obesity in Kids [AP]

• AbbVie ‘Well Positioned’ for This Year’s Humira Biosimilar Showdown, CEO Says [Fierce Pharma]

• Listen. Friends of the Global Fight: National Security/Foreign Policy 2023 [VOA]

More Member News

• Pathfinder‘s Solutions Guide for Climate Change, Gender, & Health: Essential Evidence for Action

• L.E.K.: Global Health & Healthcare Strategic Outlook: Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare

• GHTC: A Year in Review: The Global Health Innovation Stories That Shaped 2022

• Stanford I CIGH: Year-End Letter: The Under-Recognized Stories of 2022

• Americares: With an Eye on Climate, a Helping Hand for Health Care’s Front Lines

• PSI: Committing to Climate Action

• UNICEF: Up to 4M Children in Pakistan Still Living Next to Stagnant & Contaminated Floodwater

• UC Davis: Pandemic Risk on the Rise Thanks to How We Eat

• UC Berkeley: What Is Alzheimer’s Disease & Why Can’t We Develop Effective Treatments?

• PHI: Amplifying Impact Through Collaborative Partnerships to Stem COVID

• PHI: E-Learning Module: Incorporating Virtual Visits into Home-Based Asthma Services

• PHI: ‘Act of Love’ COVID-19 Campaign Utilizes Cultural Approach to Empower American Indian, Alaskan Native Communities

• PHI: Top 10 Public Health and Social Justice Media Bites of 2022

• UCSF: COVID-19 Vaccines, Prior Infection Reduce Transmission of Omicron

• Zenysis‘ Harmony Analytics Platform Recognized as a Digital Public Good

• PSI: From Innovation to Scale: Partnerships to Strengthen the Health Workforce & Consumer Experience

• CGHI: Misuse of Antibiotics Is Paving the Way for Disaster in Georgia

• Eleanor Crook Foundation: US Mission to the UN: Leadership During President Biden’s Second Year

• Gilead Sciences Again Named to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

• Nivi Increases Access to HPV Testing, Vaccination, & Cervical Cancer Treatment in Key Populations

• PATH: PrEP 4 U?

• UNICEF USA: K.I.N.D. Fund Scholarships Keep Girls in School in Malawi

• Accenture Positioned as Top Leader in Healthcare Provider Digital Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023 by Everest Group

• AIfluence: CARE Nigeria Works with Influencers at Scale for SBCC Campaign on Childhood Immunization

• Fistula Foundation: Surgeon Spotlight: Dr. Willies Silwimba

• L.E.K.: Pharma Goes Faster with AI

• PSI: COVID Behavior Change, Meet Social Media

• GAIA Nursing Scholars Share What They’re Looking Forward To!

• Stanford: Grant to Fund Initiative to Provide Cervical Cancer Screenings to High-Risk Refugee & Migrant Women

• UC Davis: Zoonotic Disease in Dogs Rises in Southern Chile After Deworming Program Canceled

• Global Fund for Women‘s Annual Report 2022

• PHI: Addressing Inequities Among Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

• UC Davis: Can We Cure Spina Bifida?

• PSI I Meta: Leveraging Digital Tools to Spark Interest in Self-Inject Contraception

• Resonance: Green Mining for a Low-Carbon, Sustainable Future

• ReSurge International: The Pioneering Women in Reconstructive Surgery Program

• PHI: Young Leader Advocates to End Child Marriage in Rural India

• Medicines360 Applauds US Congress for Enshrining Nonprofit Pharma in Federal Law for the First Time

• Listen. PHI: Data Equity Webinar Series

From Our December 2022 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• Friends of the Global Fight: Why Global Health Remains Bipartisan [Think Global Health]

• Merck I Sabin: Uganda’s Disappearing Ebola Outbreak Challenges Vaccine Testing [Science]

• PATH: Is the First Malaria Vaccine Worth the Cost? [Devex]

• Ipas I PSI: What the Fall of Roe vs. Wade Means for the Rest of the World [Global Health Now]

• Americares: When Health Inequities & Climate Disasters Collide [Axios]

• UC Berkeley: How Iran’s Security Forces Use Ambulances to Suppress Protests [New York Times]

• Stanford: How a Dangerous Stew of Air Pollution Is Choking the US [Nature]

• UC Davis: Bird Flu: What Is It & What’s Behind the Outbreak? [BBC]

• Stanford: Africa’s Different Dengue Symptoms Require New WHO Diagnostic Criteria [Global Health Now]

• Maya Health Alliance: Can Co-Design Promote Equity in Global Health? [PLOS]

• GAIA: Government Pledges Improved Access to Health Services in Hard-to-Reach Areas [Malawi Exclusive]

• Pfizer Says It Is Working to Improve Supply of COVID Drug Paxlovid in China [Reuters]

• UNICEF: Children Account for 40 Percent of Cholera Cases in Haiti [Al Jazeera]

• Merck: Some Bloodstream Infection Bacteria Grew Resistant to Last-Resort Drugs in 2020—WHO [Reuters]

• Stanford CIGH: Tolerating the Pain: Accessing Medical Morphine in Bangladesh [Health Policy Watch]

• Ipas: While Abortion Rights Shrink in US, This Small Country Expanded Access [New York Times]

• Merck: Positive Cancer Vaccine Data Advances mRNA Promise [Reuters]

• UC Berkeley: Sporting Night Vision Goggles, a Scientist Probes the Internal Clocks That Help Parasites Infect People [STAT]

• UC Berkeley: Flu, COVID Cases Surging in CA; CDC Suggests Masking Indoors to Minimize Spread [ABC]

• Stanford I UCSF: Just 1 in 20 People in the US Have Dodged COVID Infection So Far, Study Says [Mercury News]

• UC Berkeley: Masking Could Fight the ‘Tripledemic’, Experts Say. Will Anyone Listen? [The Guardian]

• UC Davis: Doctors Who Want to Defy Abortion Laws Say It’s Too Risky [NPR]

• Ipas: What It’s Like to Work in Family Planning and SRHR Right Now [Devex]

• Google Rolls Out Search Features That Aim to Make It Easier to Sign Up for Medicaid, Medicare [Fierce Healthcare]

• UNICEF Launches $10B Appeal to Fund Climate, Conflict, Catastrophe Recovery [The Hill]

• UC Berkeley: The Rise Cross-Market Hospital Systems & Their Market Power in the US [Health Affairs]

• Ipas: A Two-Month Investigation Reveals How US Christian Right Groups Spent Millions of Dollars in Africa as Anti-LGBTIQ Feeling Rose in the Region [Byline Times]

• Listen. COPcast Episode 8: Seed Global Health‘s Vanessa Kerry on Prioritizing Health at COP [Devex]

• Listen. PHI. Listen: Teaching Teens to Reverse Overdoses, Taxes on Uninsured Californians, & More [California Healthline]

More Member News

• UC Davis: Professor Christine Kreuder Johnson to Serve as US Science Envoy

• UC Berkeley: How a Viral Toxin May Exacerbate Severe COVID-19

• PHI: Rise Up Girl Leaders Impact Millions Across the Globe

• PHI’s Dr. Barbara Cohn Discusses the Effects of Environmental Exposures During Pregnancy

• PHI: ‘Act of Love’ COVID-19 Campaign Utilizes Cultural Approach to Empower American Indian, Alaskan Native Communities

• PHI: The Importance of Shifting Narratives, Supporting Black Communities Devastated by COVID

• PHI: Native American Voices, Traditions and Cultures Essential in Creating Healthier Communities

• PHI’s Susan Watson Speaks on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Black Communities

• Global Health Corps I PATH I Pathfinder I PSI I UNICEF Sign “Prioritize Primary Health Care as a 3-for-1 Investment Towards Health for All” Letter

• PSI: Filling the Pandemic SRHR Data Gap—The Performance Monitoring for Action Project

• JSI I UNICEF: Using Behavioral Science to Understand Under-Vaccination in Kathmandu

• Stanford‘s CIGH Announces Partnership with Families at the Border

• UCSF: IGHS & Bixby Center Researchers Head to Kenya to Develop More Equitable Global Partnerships

• PATH‘s Nikolaj Gilbert: ‘No Country Wants to Depend on Another for Its Health & Safety’

• ETR: Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2022: Education & Tips

• ReSurge International: Nothing’s Impossible: Jacob’s Story

• Center for Global Health Innovation Unveils the Becoming Better Ancestors™ Project to Address Future Pandemics & Worldwide Health Threats

• Pfizer: The Collective

• UC Berkeley Public Health Undergrad Finds Renewed Purpose in Mysore, India

• UC Davis: No Need to Pry, Mate: Noninvasive Testing of Mountain Gorilla Saliva

• UC Davis: Canine Cancer Patient Gets New Lease on Life While Helping People Fighting Same Disease

• UC Davis: Sea Lion Rescued from Deadly Plastic Entanglement

• UC Berkeley Doctoral Student’s Goal: Access to Psychedelics for Indigenous Peoples

• UCGHI: The Impacts of COVID-19 on People Living with HIV/AIDS

• PHI: ‘Faces for the Future’ Students Learn How to Reduce Drug Overdoses

• Soul Machines: Digital People—Bridging Access Gaps in Mental Health & Care

• JSI‘s Behavior Initiative: Making People-Centered Change Happen

• UC Berkeley: Cross-Market Hospital Systems Potentially Reduce Competition

• Stanford: Revamping WHO Preemie Care Guidelines

• Google: Using AI to Prevent Blindness

• Stanford: Maternal & Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

• Merck for Mothers: Evidence for Impact 2022

• Global Strategies‘ 2022 Annual Report

• Global Health Corps Annual Report 2022

• PHI: Groundbreaking Program Supports Paramedics in Treating Opioid Use Disorder, Saving More Lives

• PHI: DigitalAds.Org: Exposing How Marketers Target Youth

• UCSF‘s Allison Tatarsky Is Looking to Wipe Out Malaria, the World’s Deadliest Disease

• PSI: How Data Improves Health Outcomes

• UCSF: Using Just No-Frills Software, Data Analyst Ritha Mboneko Paints a Clear Picture of HIV in Tanzania

• Google: A Promising Step Forward for Predicting Lung Cancer

• Medicines360: FDA Approves Medicines360’s LILETTA® to Prevent Pregnancy for Up to Eight Years

• MedShare: Safety-Net Clinics: Bridging the Gap in Access to Quality Health Care

• Nivi Is Now Helping Partners Accelerate & Scale Up Their HIV/Aids Response in Africa & India

• Global Health Council: Global AIDS Policy Partnership (GAPP)

• Google: Partnering with iCAD to Improve Breast Cancer Screening

• Merck Honored for Contributions to Cancer Research, Eliminating Health Disparities

• Fistula Foundation: Returning to Bugando—the Birthplace of My Career in Fistula Care

• Global Fund for Women: Introducing the Co-Design Partners of the Feminist Accountability Process for the Generation Equality

• PHI: The Southeast Multi-State Racial & Health Equity SNAP-Ed Needs Assessment

• PSI: Digital Tools Health Systems Can Adopt, at Scale

• Nivi Guides Expecting Parents in Nigeria Through Their Pregnancy Journeys

• OmniVis: The Social Impact Investment Mirage

• University of the Pacific: Professors Combating Mosquito-Borne Diseases While Training Future Researchers

• Listen. JSI: Dr. Muka Chikuba-McLeod Talks to VOA About Getting Zambia to Herd Immunity

• Watch. AIFluence: Misinformation & the Use of AI. What’s SBC Got to Do with It?

• Watch. PHI‘s Video Library: How Hospitals Can Increase Access to Medication for Addiction Treatment

• Watch. Eleanor Crook Foundation I CSIS: Climate Change & Malnutrition: Many Channels for Impact, Many Opportunities to Act

From Our November 2022 Connections Newsletter

Members in the Media

• PATH: A Pandemic Silver Lining in Senegal [The Atlantic]

• Merck I Sabin Vaccine Institute: Three Experimental Ebola Vaccines Head to Uganda [The Hill]

• Sabin Vaccine Institute: Serum Institute to Produce Ebola Vaccine for Use in Uganda Outbreak [Reuters]

• Seed Global Health: Don’t Repeat COVID Mistakes as Uganda Ebola Outbreak Spreads, Opinion [Devex]

• UC Davis: Wild Monkeys Are the Superspreaders of the Animal Kingdom: Study [Newsweek]

• Friends of the Global Fight: ‘It’s Not Too Late to Take Action,’ NGOs Urge UK [Devex]

• Ipas: Thailand’s New Abortion Access Law Is Part of a Bigger Trend [Time]

• Ipas: Abortions Are Legal in Ethiopia. But Half of These Clinics Won’t Provide Them. Opinion [New York Times]

• PSI: 10 Years In, 300 to Go? Investing in a Faster Route to Gender Equity [Philanthropy News Digest]

• UNICEF USA: Russia’s Threats to Ukrainian Exports Intensifies Hunger Crisis in East Africa [NBC]

• Merck: Two TB Antibiotic Candidates Licensed by Bill & Melinda Gates Institute [Fierce Biotech]

• Seed Global Health: Why Preventing Pandemics Can’t Just Be a Global Effort [Devex]

• UC Davis: Whites Now More Likely to Die from COVID than Blacks: Why the Pandemic Shifted [Washington Post]

• PHI: Specialists, Broadband & the Fight for Health Equity in Rural America [Daily Yonder]

• Gilead Profit Tops Expectations [Reuters]

• Google’s New Medical Imaging Suite Will Enable a Bright Future Ahead for Healthcare [Forbes]

• PSI to Launch New Digital Service for Low-income Populations in Vietnam [Yahoo Finance]

• Americares: How an Organization from CT Responds to Emergencies Around the World: ‘We’re a Trusted Partner’ [Stamford Advocate]

• UNICEF: One Child a Minute Being Admitted for Malnutrition Treatment in Somalia [Reuters]

• UNICEF Grapples with Therapeutic Food Supply Challenges [Devex Pro]

• Listen. PHI‘s Linda Rudolph on Climate Change-Driven Health Impacts & Solutions Podcast [Healthy Living Healthy Planet Radio]