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Innovations in Vaccines and Data to Transform Health by 2030
Jul 16, 2015
Innovation Countdown 2030 is reimagining what’s possible in global health. Led by PATH, the initiative is identifying and showcasing technologies and interventions with great promise to accelerate progress toward solving the world’s most urgent health issues.
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Team Member Spotlight: Daines Mgidange
Jul 13, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Daines Mgidange, Change Management Associate in Tanzania.
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Team Member Spotlight: Silas Max
Jun 30, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Silas Max, Implementation Project Manager in Tanzania.
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Team Member Spotlight: Emily Carnahan
Jun 22, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Emily Carnahan, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead from the Seattle office.
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Team Member Spotlight: Mathew Mwetela
Jun 8, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Mathew Mwetela, Communications Officer from our Lusaka, Zambia office.
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Saving Lives Through Essential Vaccines: Reimagining “Routine” Immunization
Jun 5, 2015
We admit, immunization data might not be the most thrilling of topics. But, at the heart of it, we are using immunization data to reach more kids and save lives from life-threatening, vaccine-preventable diseases. In the same vein, the following post appeared on PATH.org’s blog discussing the need to rethink the phrase “Routine Immunization” and the impact behind it, mentioning our work at the BID Initiative.
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Team Member Spotlight: Thomas Bonzo
Jun 1, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Thomas Bonzo, Driver from the Tanzania office.
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Team Member Spotlight: Breese Arenth
May 25, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania, and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Breese Arenth, Project Specialist from the Digital Health Solutions team in the Seattle office.
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Reaching the Hard to Reach: The Maasai in Tanzania
May 22, 2015
In the last 10 years, the Maasai have been among the most affected communities by measles. Pastoral communities like the Maasai in the rural Arusha region of Tanzania are very hard to reach, making it even harder to provide the necessary second dose for the measles vaccine to be effective. In fact, the presence of this community played a part in our decision to start the BID Initiative in Arusha as our pilot region. Angela Cheche, a health worker at Kaloleni Health Facility in the Arusha region, recalls how measles previously took the lives of many children, but the introduction of vaccines has made a big difference.
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Team Member Spotlight: Esther Mushi
May 18, 2015
The BID Initiative team works across three countries in the United States, Tanzania and Zambia. This week, we learn more about Esther Mushi, Senior Program Assistant, from the Dar es Salaam Tanzania office.
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