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Functioning disease surveillance networks contribute to reduce the socioeconomic impact caused by epidemics. Once national governments and partners involved adhere to policies and strategies to contain epidemics and disease threats, strengthening of surveillance-response …

The Rockefeller Foundation’s multi-year, $100 million Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative aims to help developing world countries improve health services and financial protection from the cost of health services. At the …

  In Asia, the Foundation’s work in building disease surveillance networks has focused on the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) regional network and its member countries. The focus on cross-border surveillance has been justified …

Impact investments: An emerging asset class is a research note published by J.P. Morgan Global Research and is the result of collaboration between Social Finance at J.P. Morgan and The …

One in every ten people lived in urban areas a century ago. Now, for the first time ever, most people live in cities. By 2050, the United Nations projects, almost …

Over the course of nearly four decades, beginning in the 1940s, annual crop yields surged in poor countries around the world. Between 1960 and 1985 cereal yields, total cereal production, …

Asia was desperate for food after World War II. Only massive shipments of U.S. grain prevented famine. Rice was, and is, Asia’s lifeblood. That’s why the Ford and Rockefeller foundations pooled …

The epidemic of HIV-1 continues to spread throughout the world despite current prevention efforts. Between 1993 and 2000 the World Health Organization projects that at least 26 million people will …