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Global health is an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Greater investment in global health R&D spurs faster medical progress and enables breakthroughs for individual and public health; bolsters U.S. national security; and protects against future public health threats.

“Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”

– Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist & Nobel Prize Recipient

For more information about Research!America’s global health work, contact Savannah Sims, Senior Manager of Global Health R&D Advocacy.

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The Emerging Threat of Dengue, Other Tropical Diseases

Three experts from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center

 

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Infectious Disease Research in Focus: Perspectives from Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, NIAID Director

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

 

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Neglected tropical diseases threaten to become the next pandemic. We must prepare for them now.

Though once seen as a disease that only afflicted people in developing

 

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