JHSPH Receives Gates Foundation Grant To Document, Disseminate Lessons Learned From Polio Eradication Efforts

Devex: Exclusive: The Gates Foundation picks a partner to share lessons learned from polio eradication
“The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received a new grant to translate the lessons learned from polio eradication to other global health initiatives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation told Devex. … Working with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, [Olakunle Alonge, assistant professor at JHSPH,] and a team of partners from seven countries — Nigeria, India, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, and Indonesia — will develop courses and clinics that capture the best practices of the polio eradication effort…” (Cheney, 11/16).

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