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Who We Are Connected Women Leaders is a high-level cohort of global leaders, curated across geographies, generations, and expertise, initiated and supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. The mission of Connected Women …

One unfortunate axiom in communications work is: if it bleeds, it leads. Another might be: a divider is a headliner. We have seen this at play throughout the news coverage and …

Artificial intelligence, or AI, and machine learning is used in myriad ways across the public and private sectors. It can serve as a tool to solve a wide range of …

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is considered one of the most effective programs for reducing child poverty and promoting economic stability among low-wage families. But there is a suite of …

Fighting an existing pandemic and building a system to detect future ones are each formidable tasks. The Covid-19 crisis demands we undertake both simultaneously—anything less would be irresponsible. With more than …

The pandemic made the challenge of training health workers in lower-income countries even harder. To counter the huge impact Covid-19 is having on health systems worldwide, a collaboration between Gavi …

CGIAR’s original mission—to end hunger—has grown to encompass transforming the world’s food, land, and water systems in the context of a climate crisis.

In Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Newark, and Oakland, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Equity-First Vaccination Initiative (EVI) supports community-based organizations working to increase vaccine confidence and uptake in communities of color. In this …

Much of the response to Covid-19 to date has been reactionary. Travel restrictions were implemented after a new variant had already breached the country. The use of higher-quality masks was …

In Durban, South Africa, scientists led by Dr. Tulio de Oliveira, director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University, were conducting routine genomic surveillance of …