by mfc_admin | Nov 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
By: Dr. Shreya Kangovi, Founding Executive Director, Penn Centre for CHWs and Claire Qureshi, Vice President, Frontline Delivery, Office of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Health. Each day, Agnes serves her community in Liberia, supporting pregnant...
by mfc_admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
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...
by mfc_admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
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 mfc_admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
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...
by mfc_admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Introduction Over recent years, the world has faced two Ebola outbreaks, a constant threat of pandemic influenza, and now the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. In developing countries, these threats risk exacerbating existing high burdens of communicable...
by mfc_admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Thought Leadership
The Path to Health for All: Translating the Economic ROI to Financially Investable Opportunities for Private Sector and Governments, July 2018 If you listen carefully, you’ve probably heard the exciting buzz about Health for All- countries are talking about it,...
