UCSF Launches 'Action Tank' to Advance Promising Global Health Strategies

SAN FRANCISCO -- UCSF Global Health Sciences is launching an "action tank," with start-up funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to promote and implement the most promising strategies against global health crises. The Gates Foundation is providing a $5 million grant for the initial phase.

The new team, called the Global Health Group, will be led by Sir Richard Feachem, the former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and now professor of global health at UCSF.

To read the full press release, visit the UCSF Web site.