PATH Blog
Kathleen Donnelly manages content for path.org, including the PATH blog. A former newspaper reporter and website producer, Kathleen was a freelance writer and editor specializing in global health and development for nearly a decade before joining PATH. You can see her reports from the December 2010 launch of a new vaccine against meningitis in our Meningitis Vaccine Project special feature. In London tomorrow, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international family planning summit with an ambitious goal: to give 120 million women in developing countries who have unmet needs for contraceptives access to … Continue reading
For at least a billion of us—the estimated number of people who use birth control—contraception is not a controversial subject. At least, not when we’re using it ourselves, in private. And if Melinda Gates has anything to do with it, … Continue reading
It’s the BIRTHweigh™ scale that really gets the seventh graders from Salmon Bay School excited. Maybe it’s the three baby dolls PATH staff member Emily Griswold has lined up to demonstrate the device, which helps attendants at births outside of … Continue reading
Today and Friday, hundreds of experts and leaders in global health will meet in Washington, DC, to identify ways to reach one ambitious goal. They want to end preventable child deaths, aiming to reduce the number of deaths by 70 … Continue reading
The blonde girl poses before the fireplace, her hands folded politely in her lap, a Peter Pan collar on her dress. “Chicago,” someone has carefully inked in blue at the top of the family snapshot. “Hillary 1952.” US Secretary of … Continue reading
Steve Davis has been a PATH board member (2001 to 2010), an interim leader of our program in India (2010 to 2011), and a steadfast friend and supporter. Today, we welcome him as our president and CEO. Steve is well … Continue reading
Earlier this month, we told you about plans to consider a roadmap to provide universal access to vaccines that have the potential to save more than 20 million lives by 2020. Today, the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, the World … Continue reading
In thousands of rural villages and urban slums touched by PATH’s Sure Start project, ordinary people are using simple yet ingenious tools to make mothers and babies safer. Watch our video to see why they’re smiling today, and see our … Continue reading
An action plan for the Decade of Vaccines Next week, an international group with members involved in just about every aspect of developing and delivering vaccines will present a plan to the decision-making body of the World Health Organization and … Continue reading
Today is World Malaria Day, and we’ve got good news about the fight against a disease that still kills about 650,000 people, mainly young African children, every year. Earlier this month, we told you about the work of the PATH … Continue reading
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