GHTC’s director Jamie Bay Nishi was invited by the White House to deliver video remarks for the Global COVID-19 Summit held on September 22, 2021.
Learn moreGHTC Director Jamie Bay Nishi was interviewed as part of a Mediaplanet campaign on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that was featured in the Guardian.
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HarvestPlus works with diverse partners in more than 40 countries to develop and promote new, more nutritious varieties of staple food crops with higher amounts of vitamin A, iron, or zinc—three of the micronutrients identified by the World Health Organization as most lacking in diets globally. The process is known as biofortification—and regular consumption of these innovative crops is improving nutrition and public health.
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Health technologies have the potential to save millions of lives. New tools are needed to slow the global threat of diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases, and tackle many other pressing health needs. For diseases and conditions primarily affecting people in the world’s poorest places, there is little to no commercial market to spur R&D. Strong investment and innovative solutions are needed to catalyze the development of new technologies to bring health and opportunity within reach for all people.
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GHTC Director Jamie Bay Nishi was interviewed as part of a Mediaplanet campaign on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that was featured in the Guardian.
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GHTC’s director Jamie Bay Nishi was invited by the White House to deliver video remarks for the Global COVID-19 Summit held on September 22, 2021.
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GHTC sent a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), calling for the administration to sustain and protect global health R&D in the fiscal year 2022 (FY22) budget.
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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
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Triangle Global Health Consortium
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American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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In this regular feature on Breakthroughs, we highlight some of the most interesting reads in global health research from the past week.
In this regular feature on Breakthroughs, we highlight some of the most interesting reads in global health research from the past week.
The G20 health declaration, released last week following the health ministers' annual summit, encouragingly highlighted R&D as a central pillar of pandemic preparedness. However, the declaration also stopped short of providing a clear road map to translate its ambitions into concrete measures—and more action is needed.
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