Where you live should not determine whether you live. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS. I remember the first person I saw succumb to the disease. I want to honor her. It was October 2006. She’d had symptoms for years. We’d just started testing…

Bring the vaccine to people — don’t wait for people to come to the vaccine. Bring the vaccine to people. Don’t wait for people to come to the vaccine. To increase COVID-19 vaccination rates especially amongst marginalized communities that’s what we have to do. But how? …

Last Mile Health CEO Raj Panjabi argues community health workers are a win-win for fighting Covid-19 — There are more than 200,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide as of March 19. Continued sharp increases in infections may overwhelm health systems in any country, but especially places that are facing shortages of nurses, doctors, and other frontline health providers. The pandemic is also dealing an economic blow…

(Editor’s Note: The following post is adapted from remarks delivered by Raj Panjabi at the Clinton Global Initiative’s 12th and final Annual Meeting. Dr. Panjabi is the recent recipient of the 2017 TED Prize. …