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Lancet Medical Journal features the legacy of Carl Taylor and Jim Grant in Improving Child Health

Posted on Mon, 2010 – 04 – 12 18:21

The late Dr. Carl Taylor is remembered with an obituary in this month's issue of Lancet, one of the world's leading medical journals. In addition, the Lancet features a posthumous piece by Dr. Taylor on the legacy of Jim Grant, Director of UNICEF from 1980-1995.

In this piece entitled What Would Jim Grant Say Now?, Dr. Taylor summarizes three types of interventions for improving primary health:

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Celebrating the Life of Carl Taylor

Posted on Mon, 2010 – 02 – 08 16:44

Carl TaylorCarl TaylorCarl E. Taylor 1916-2010   Carl E. Taylor, MD, DrPH, founder of the academic discipline of international health, a man of spiritual conviction, who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world's marginalized people, passed away February 4, 2010 from prostate cancer. He was 93. The reach of his life was extraordinary, personally working in over 70 and having students from more than 100 countries.

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Future Generations Peru Concludes a Four-Year Child Survival Project in Cusco

Posted on Fri, 2009 – 12 – 18 20:35

Lima, Peru:  A four-year child survival project of Future Generations Peru, funded by the Child Survival and Health Grants Program of the United States Agency for International Development, achieved significant improvements in 21 key maternal and child health indictors. The number of maternal deaths declined by 75% in the project area, and chronic child malnutrition declined by 9%.

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Maternal Health Task Force eBulletin announces EngenderHealth grant for Future Generations project in Peru

Posted on Fri, 2010 – 07 – 30 18:38

One of only eight new projects funded by EngenderHealth, a new Future Generations project focuses on pregnancy histories in an area that holds the highest maternal and neontal mortality rates in Latin America along with the highest levels of malnutrition in Peru. Future Generations Peru Country Director, Laura Altobelli..."will field test promising methods of reducing maternal and newborn mortality by organizing groups of pregnant women to share their pregnancy histories and experiences.

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Peru 2010 Country Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Date: 
May, 2010

This international country fact sheet will provide you with information on how Peru is "strengthening a national health system with communities."

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NY Times Obituary Recognizes Carl Taylor's Contribution to Global Primary Health

Posted on Tue, 2010 – 03 – 16 17:53
March 12, 2010

Carl E. Taylor, Leader in Global Health Care, Is Dead at 93

 

By DENISE GELLENE

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Dr. Carl E. Taylor, an architect of a 134-nation agreement that established primary health care as a universal right, died on Feb. 4 in Baltimore. He was 93.

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Case Study - CLAS Peru

Authors: 
Laura Altobelli
Date: 
August, 2008

Altobelli, Laura C  (2008) Case Study of CLAS in Peru: Opportunity and Empowerment for Health Equity.   Prepared for Case Studies of Programmes Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Equity organized by the Priority Public Health Conditions - Knowledge Network (PPHC-KN) of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, with support from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO.  

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Searchers Who Are Improving Health in the Midst of Poverty

Authors: 
Henry Perry
Date: 
August, 2006

Why has the $2.3 trillion dollars spent by the West over the past four decades not had more of an impact in promoting health and decreasing poverty?

The economist William Easterly addresses this issue in his provocative new book, The White Man's Burden. His view is that we need to abandon the grandiose plans of the Planners and that we begin to develop new and effective ways for supporting those people he calls Searchers -- those who are working at the grassroots level and who are experimenting and learning by trial and error to solve local problems of poverty and health.

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Future Generations Professor Receives Global Child Survival Award

Posted on Mon, 2009 – 10 – 12 20:07
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The CORE Group awarded its 10th Dory Storms Child Survival Recognition Award to Dr. Henry Perry, who served for six years as an endowed faculty member of the Future Generations Graduate School.

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