Apr 15, 2015 By: Mandy Groff, Director, External Relations Across borders, cultures, ethnicities, and religions – there is a strong through line: hope. Hope for a brighter future ahead, for a more prosperous generation, for a healthier and more educated youth. As a mother of a four-year old son in New York City, I live and…
Apr 10, 2015 Sharon Salzberg, Pierre Ferrari, David G. Addiss, Ellen Agler, and Jeffrey C. Walker explain how Buddhism’s boundless states—lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—manifest in their work. This piece was originally posted on Tricycle Magazine’s blog. Over the past few years, as despair across the globe seems to deepen, many have told me that these troubling times have, ironically…
Feb 26, 2015 By: Warren Lancaster, Senior Vice President, Programs I have just returned from the biannual World Health Organization Regional Program Review Group (RPRG) for Africa meeting in Brazzaville, Congo, to which the END Fund has Observer status. The RPRG is a group of leading experts in the field of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and…
Jan 26, 2015 Ellen Agler, CEO, the END Fund and Jeffrey C. Walker, Vice Chairman, United Nation’s Secretary General’s Envoy for Health Finance and Malaria recently wrote a piece posted on the Huffington Post, reflecting on the 2015 Gates Annual Letter. To accomplish the big bets in health that Bill and Melinda Gates detail in their annual letter we need to: Learn…
Jan 06, 2015 By: Karen Palacio, Program Director My parents immigrated to the United States in their early 20’s from Colombia and raised my sisters with strong cultural traditions, especially around the holidays. My most nostalgic holiday memory is that of New Year’s Eve and the traditional (and perhaps superstitious) undertakings at midnight to welcome the…
Dec 31, 2014 The end of the year provides us all with a wonderful moment to stop and reflect on the past year and rejuvenate ourselves for the possibilities for the year ahead. As we prepare to tackle even more in 2015 and ambitiously set targets to reach more beneficiaries, here’s a look at what we have…
Nov 21, 2014 By: Karen Palacio, Program Director and James Porter, Associate Director, External Relations This year’s Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) saw 4,400+ people gather in New Orleans, LA to share research, knowledge, and conversation on a multitude of topics related to tropical medicine. The number of sessions dedicated to neglected…
Nov 19, 2014 By: Carlie Congdon, Associate Program Director Do you enjoy talking about going to the bathroom? Probably not. It is one of the subjects that has the ability to make people from the widest array of cultures feel awkward and uncomfortable. Working in rural health development in Vanuatu, I spent countless hours discussing the…
Nov 10, 2014 By: Warren Lancaster, Senior Vice President I just returned from a visit to northern Zambia to monitor the third and final round of the distribution of Zithromax, the drug provided at no cost by Pfizer against trachoma, to the entire population of Nchelenge and Chienge Districts. The district health authorities, rural health centers, and especially the…
Oct 03, 2014 By: Sarah Marchal Murray, Senior Vice President New Yorkers are breathing a sigh of relief this week having reclaimed the streets after a very busy week hosting, well, the world. Between the People’s Climate March, Social Good Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative, the UN General Assembly and Climate Summit, and the Global Citizen Festival any socially conscious person had the opportunity…
