News & Updates | global health

Congrats to Global Pediatric Alliance on their grant from New England International Donors

Abundance Foundation recently joined New England International Donors (NEID), a peer-to-peer learning network of global philanthropists based mostly in the United States. For over 10 years, NEID has been creating community among internationally-focused donors across New England, and is currently ...

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub of Ariadne Labs on Vaccine Nationalism

Rebecca Weintraub of Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs (formerly Global Health Delivery Project, a long-time grantee of the Abundance Foundation) has been working non-stop to produce and disseminate information and tools to support the COVID response. Her expertise has been a guiding light to many in ...

Congratulations to Evrard Nahimana, graduate of Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery at HMS

We are inspired by the growth in the number of visionary leaders who have benefited from the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery (MMSc-GHD) program at Harvard Medical School. The program provides training in management, program design, and research that students need to become ...

New Wired article and research in support of BCG vaccine as potential COVID-19 intervention

Promising research about the efficacy of the BCG vaccine against a range of respiratory infections has just been published in the prestigious medical journal, Cell. This randomized-controlled vaccine trial started years before the COVID-19 pandemic, but has major implications for the potential ...

Announcing the Abundance Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund

We are living through unprecedented and uncertain times, with a tsunami of COVID-19 cases approaching the United States and countries throughout the world. Now is the time for collective action and collaboration to address this challenge confronting humanity. In the midst of this crisis, ...

Nashville Post on Abundance’s Dr. Kahn and Partners In Health documentary, “Bending the Arc"

Abundance Foundation President, Dr. Stephen Kahn, was featured in the Nashville Post to highlight the historic Belcourt theater’s free screening of Bending The Arc, a documentary about Partners In Health. Abundance Foundation proudly hosted the exclusive and free Nashville screening of the ...

VIDEO: Dr. Stephen Kahn on Lessons from the Haiti Cholera Epidemic

For nearly a decade, the Abundance Foundation has supported the Global Health Delivery Intensive Program at Harvard University in training hundreds of mid-career global health professionals from a total of 54 countries. Run collaboratively by Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health ...

Spotlight on Global Mental Health

For the past 7 years, the Abundance Project for Global Health has supported the Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, along with Mental Health programs at Partners In Health. The Abundance Project for Global Health also supported the implementation of ...

VIDEO: Dr. Stephen Kahn Delivers Keynote at Global Health Delivery Intensive Program Graduation

VIDEO: Abundance Foundation's Stephen Kahn in conversation with Paul Farmer

Since 2010, the Abundance Foundation has collaborated with Partners In Health to support their truly transformative work to train frontline health care workers, provide direct service and build capacity in some of the most material resource-limited settings in the world. In February 2018, Dr. ...

Exciting Update on Cholera Vaccine

Great news about Cholera vaccine supplies and distribution: "Faced with a global shortage of oral cholera vaccines (OCV), the United Nations health agency announced today that supply should double this year to six million doses, with further increases later, after it approved a third ...

Abundance Project for Global Health Reflects on Successes at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

Collaborating with Partners In Health & Harvard Medical School, the Abundance Project for Global Health supported research and training initiatives aimed at alleviating health care disparities and strengthening healthcare systems across the globe. NEW YORK – Stephen Kahn, M.D., President of ...

Abundance-funded research supports Ebola epidemic control

Abundance Foundation is proud to announce that Global Health research we supported has yielded game changing findings for the containment and treatment of the deadly Ebola virus. In Sierra Leone, Abundance Foundation supported the field testing and validation of a rapid diagnostic test that can ...

Harvard's "The Benefactor" Honors Dr. Stephen Kahn for his work in Global Health

Abundance Foundation Global Health Commitment Featured at Clinton Global Initiative

Partnering with the Harvard Medical School’s Global Health Research Core, the Abundance Project for Global Health supported research published in the Lancet that demonstrated the accuracy of a bedside test to diagnose Ebola patients within minutes. The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) ...