Kofi Annan: Set a Date for Measles Eradication Mark Leon Goldberg January 18, 2011 Kofi Annan urges the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, which meets in Geneva this week, to set a target date for global Measles eradication.
Improving the Lives of Women in Haiti Mark Leon Goldberg January 18, 2011 UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin has an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how some small interventions in Haiti can go a long way toward improving the health and welfare of women living in Haiti's sprawling tent cities.
UN Keeping the Peace in Ivory Coast Mark Leon Goldberg January 13, 2011 A special guest post from Peter Yeo, Director of the Better World Campaign, on how UN Peacekeepers are helping to prevent the slide into civil war in Ivory Coast.
Dikembe Mutombo: Don’t Let Measles Rebound Mark Leon Goldberg December 16, 2010 The NBA legend explains why he supports efforts to eradicate Measles worldwide.
Disaster Relief 2.0 Mark Leon Goldberg December 3, 2010 A new partnership between the Harvard Humanitarian Project, the UN Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is formed to investigate the role that grassroots technology groups played in the Haiti earthquake response.
U.S. Global Engagement Gets A Grassroots Boost Mark Leon Goldberg November 19, 2010 Big news in the U.S. global engagement front: At a gala dinner in New York last night, it was announced that the UN Foundation is joining in a strategic alliance with the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA).
Win a Ticket to the Glamour “Women of the Year” Awards Mark Leon Goldberg October 29, 2010 Our friends at Girl Up pass along a promotion where you have a chance to win a ticket to Glamour magazine's annual award show on November 8.
Mandy Moore in Central African Republic. Really! Mark Leon Goldberg October 1, 2010 Earlier today our friends at Nothing But Nets hosted a conference call with the actress/singer Mandy Moore, who was delivering anti-Malaria bed nets in the Central African Republic.
Health Information is Health Aid: How Data Can Revolutionize Health Care Mark Leon Goldberg September 28, 2010 The following is the first installment of a series of guest posts from participants in the November 8-10, 2010 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in partnership with the mHealth Alliance and NIH.
