Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – Pandemic Timeline https://pandemictimeline.com Chronological Sequence of Events Tue, 15 Oct 2024 05:17:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://pandemictimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Covid-150x150.ico Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – Pandemic Timeline https://pandemictimeline.com 32 32 Dr. Tom Frieden founds Resolve to Save Lives https://pandemictimeline.com/2017/09/dr-tom-frieden-founds-resolve-to-save-lives/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:01:16 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=3854 September 2017 Resolve to Save Lives is a five-year, $225 million global health initiative that seeks to address major health issues on a global scale. Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Tom Frieden is president and CEO.  The effort is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the…

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Resolve to Save Lives is a five-year, $225 million global health initiative that seeks to address major health issues on a global scale. Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Tom Frieden is president and CEO.  The effort is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Vital Strategies in New York City.  These “global implementing partners” are listed at the bottom of the home page for Resolve to Save Lives: World Health Organization, The World Bank, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Global Health Advocacy Incubator, and CDC Foundation.

Resolve to Save Lives is an initiative of the global public health organization Vital Strategies.

In 2017, my longtime friend and colleague Dr. Tom Frieden and I discussed an idea for a new global health initiative, “Resolve to Save Lives.” It was a name fit for its ambitious mission: to save more than 100 million lives by preventing heart attacks and strokes and to help countries close life-threatening gaps in epidemic preparedness and response.

— José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies

On whose authority do the mega-wealthy like Bloomberg, Gates, and Zuckerberg operate in the global health sphere? The kind of money that these people and their foundations bring to the table can change the global health agenda, but they are ultimately accountable only to themselves. My friend Sophie Harman of Queen Mary University London has done incredible work on the question of legitimacy and philanthropy in global health. She argues in a recent article in Global Governance that groups like the Gates Foundation essentially trade on their wealth to gain significant real-world political influence, but that they use this power to advance their own agendas. What good are these additional resources if they don’t give voice to the people who will live with the effects of these investments?

— Jeremy Youde

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]]> Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grants funds to UNC-Chapel Hill https://pandemictimeline.com/2020/07/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-grants-funds-to-unc-chapel-hill/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:04 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=706 The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recently awarded a $433,000 grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for laboratory equipment that will accelerate research to address the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially saving lives. The equipment will go to the lab of Ralph Baric, PhD, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of epidemiology at the…

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recently awarded a $433,000 grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for laboratory equipment that will accelerate research to address the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially saving lives. The equipment will go to the lab of Ralph Baric, PhD, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Researchers in the Baric Lab are on the forefront of developing COVID-19 treatments. This grant represents a new collaboration between the West Coast philanthropic organization CZI and UNC in search of a global solution to the pandemic.

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