Davis will oversee PATH’s annual budget of $305 million, a staff of nearly 1,200, and a portfolio of projects based in PATH offices in 22 countries. He succeeds Dr. Christopher J. Elias, who left PATH to become president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
From our inbox: Seattle’s PATH teams up with MERCK for maternal health project. Polyclinic launches clinical research division. Virginia Mason and Wenatchee Medical Center form heart affiliation.
In his new positions, Dr. Christopher Elias will focus on developing integrated health-care delivery of interventions for the developing world.
A malaria vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company GSK and Seattle’s PATH has been shown to halve the risk of severe malaria in African children.
Seattle global health blogger Tom Paulson reports on PATH’s World Malaria Day conference.
Virus kills more than 500,000 children a year worldwide.
Hilton Foundation selects Seattle-based PATH to receive the foundation’s $1.5 million Humanitarian Prize.
A panel of local and international experts will provide an update on the influenza A/H1N1 (“swine flu”) outbreak this afternoon at the UW Medical Center. The panel will include: Dr. David Fleming, director of public health for Seattle and King County; Kathleen Neuzil, director of PATH’s Influenza Vaccine Project Marie Kimball, UW professor of epidemiology [...]
Steve Scher, host of KUOW’s talk show Weekday, today interviewed three Seattle experts who are working to control and prevent malaria, a disease that kills 1 million people a year, mostly children. A podcast of the show is available online. Scher’s guests included: Dr. Rip Ballou, deputy director for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Development at the [...]
Gates gives $255 million to $630 million polio eradication push The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $255 million challenge grant to Rotary International for its Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Rotary will match the Gates grant with $100 million raised by its own members over the next three years. In addition, the United [...]
Two Seattle-based foundations are behind a large malaria vaccine trial being launched in Africa next month.
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