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Funding Newsletter Intellectual property in your app. Opportunity for small biz. Loan repayment. Concepts. QAs.

Today through 10/21, infectious disease experts will be presenting in San Diego. Check out these sessions:

NIH-funded study to test pneumococcal vaccine in older adults. Scientists aim to elicit stronger immune response. See

Attend the Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities – registration closes Oct 19

Funding Newsletter Avoid Application Missteps re:Innovation. Funding Opps. FY 2013 Budget. Rules about video for apps.

Dybul: PEPFAR was the first time in history of global health that we tackled a chronic disease. May be greatest legacy.

Dybul: Challenging to strike a balance between investment in biomedical science and investment in implementation science.

Dybul: Separate provider of funds from provider of technical support for public health.

Dybul: One principle is accountability and transparency, i.e., getting best value for our money. Requires 21st century technology.

Dybul: Principles of new era: country ownership, results based, good governance, all sectors engaged, econ growth as engine of development.

Dybul: Institutions are products of their time culturally, structurally. Now trying to cram 21st C ideas into 20th C institutions.

Dybul: We have the tools to dramatically improve global health, but current financial & technical infrastructure prevents us from doing so.

Dybul: HIV treatment-as-prevention plus PrEP plus circumcision can dramatically decrease HIV incidence.

Between 1990 and 2010, child mortality fell by 41% and maternal mortality dropped by 47%.

The title of today's lecture is Reshaping Global Health: Translating Scientific Advances into Global Action.

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