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By Tom Paulson on April 27th, 2010
Is malaria eradication possible?
Seattle global health blogger Tom Paulson reports on PATH’s World Malaria Day conference.
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By Michael McCarthy on January 28th, 2010
PATH study finds rotavirus vaccine effective in African infants
Virus kills more than 500,000 children a year worldwide.
By Michael McCarthy on September 15th, 2009
PATH awarded $1.5 million prize for humanitarian work
Hilton Foundation selects Seattle-based PATH to receive the foundation’s $1.5 million Humanitarian Prize.
By LocalHealthGuide on May 04th, 2009
Experts to give update on swine flu at UW today
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 and director of Asia Pacific [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on February 03rd, 2009
Malaria fighters in Seattle
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 Bill and Melinda [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on January 22nd, 2009
Seattle Global Health News – PATH, Gates and IDRI
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 Kingdom will give [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on November 11th, 2008
Seattle foundations behind new malaria vaccine trial
Two Seattle-based foundations are behind a large malaria vaccine trial being launched in Africa next month.
The trial will enrol 16,000 children to test a promising vaccine that in earlier trials proved to be at least partially effective.
The trial has been organised by PATH, a Seattle-based foundation that specializes in global health, in cooperation with the [...]
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