"Regina Rabinovich Named Director of Infectious Diseases Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"
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"Regina Rabinovich Named Director of Infectious
Diseases Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" PRNewswire (www.prnewswire.com)
(10/11/02)
Dr. Regina Rabinovich has been selected to head
up the Infectious Diseases program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The program works to raise awareness and to speed up the production, deployment,
and sustainability of tools and technologies to help relieve the disease burden
in developing nations. More than $500 million in grant money has been awarded
through the program to build coalitions between scientists, universities,
nonprofit organizations, and private industry. As program director, Dr.
Rabinovich, who currently serves as director of Malaria Vaccine Initiative, PATH
(Program for Appropriate Technology in Health), will work to broaden the
foundation's emphasis on prevention and control.
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