Illness is universal — but access to care is not. Physician Raj Panjabi has a bold vision to bring health care to everyone, everywhere. Listen to his TED talk here. Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a global platform that aims to modernize how...
We live in extraordinary times. In 1960, 22.2% of all children in developing countries – one out of every five – died before the age of 5. Today, we are within reach of ending preventable child deaths. Across developing countries, when compared with fifty...
In May, the World Health Organization declared Liberia “Ebola free” after forty-two days without new cases. While this was a remarkable milestone, none of us can forget that Ebola killed 4,800 people in Liberia and has already left more than 11,000 dead...
By Dr. Raj Panjabi, MD, MPH (CEO, Last Mile Health) and Dr. Ami Waters, MD (UCSF Global Health Fellow, Last Mile Health) Her white and pink striped shirt draped over her left shoulder like an oversized curtain. As she sat on her mother’s lap, Love stared up at the...
