Originally posted on The Seattle Times. Improving routine vaccination for every child, no matter where they live, is one of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Big challenges demand bold solutions – and sometimes the most effective solutions are found by...
Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030 will require innovative interventions that blend an understanding of a community’s characteristics and contextual issues to create solutions with long-lasting effects. To do so, we need to think beyond the traditional...
Today marks an essential step toward innovation in how we deliver health care – and it starts with the release of our report, “Integrating Community Insights to Build Responsive Primary Health Care Systems.” This report ends a six-month assessment,...
While progress has been made toward achieving universal health coverage (UHC), the pace of progress is too slow. Increasing socioeconomic inequalities and the backslide in health progress due to global emergencies have demonstrated how fragile and inequitable health...
During September, world leaders began to converge on New York for this year’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with its welcome focus on the urgent need to put the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track after the COVID-19 pandemic. One of...
Since 2016, The Pfizer Foundation’s* Global Health Innovation Grants (GHIG) program has supported community-based initiatives that aim to improve quality of care and strengthen health systems in lower income countries.
“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.” Edward Synge-Morley Radical collaboration is at the heart of VillageReach’s work. Over its two-decade history, VillageReach has collaborated with governments, the private...
This year the World Health Organization added 37 African countries to a list of nations at risk of facing worsening health worker shortages due to “brain drain” – a well-documented phenomenon of health workers emigrating to work in high-income countries like the U.S.,...
This year the World Health Organization added 37 African countries to a list of nations at risk of facing worsening health worker shortages due to “brain drain” – a well-documented phenomenon of health workers emigrating to work in high-income countries like the U.S.,...
2023 has been a year of overlapping challenges for Malawi. We’ve weathered the deadliest cholera outbreak in our country’s history, Tropical Storm Ana, and Cyclone Freddy—all in the wake of the economic and health devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
