The national broadcast of NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will profile OneWorld Health this Friday, March 9, 2007. This 2-minute profile will feature interviews with Victoria Hale, Dr. Tachi Yamada of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Prof. Jay Keasling of UC Berkeley and Dr. Jack Newman, co-founder of Amyris Technologies. Additional footage will include video of our work on paromomycin for black fever, iOWH’s malaria project team in action, and Amyris Biotechnologies’ laboratory where work on microbially-derived artemisinin is underway.

The interview is slated to run during the “Making a Difference” segment of the evening broadcast. Please check your local listings for specific show times that your local NBC-affiliate broadcasts the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams in your area. Here are show times for select local markets:

• Boston - WHDH 6:30PM
• Los Angeles - KNBC 6:30PM
• New York - WNBC 6:30PM
• San Francisco - KNTV 5:30PM
• Seattle - KING 6:00PM

You can watch this and other “Making a Difference” segments on their website.

Additional publications that have featured iOWH recently range from the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel and a profile of Victoria Hale in “The Boss” section of the NY Times. Visit our website to read these and other articles including “Foundations Move in where VCs Fear to Tread” published in the San Francisco Chronicle in December.

The Institute for OneWorld Health hosted a distinguished group of the world’s experts in global health for an all-day seminar on Friday, February 16, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco. The seminar highlighted the intersection of science and global health and its positive impact on improving the health and well-being of people in the developing world.

The three-part seminar included presentations by some of the best and brightest minds in global health, unique contributors from the Bay Area, perspectives from the field and social entrepreneurs. Panel one titled “Global Hearts: The Contributions of Bay Area Professionals to Health,” featured Bay Area organizations committed to impacting global health. The second panel titled “From Inception to Implementation: Delivering Innovative Programs In Developing Countries” featured representatives from non-governmental organizations working in remote areas of developing countries. Panelists discussed the challenges and success that they experienced and cited specific examples from their own work. On the third panel “Creativity from the Outside: Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Responsibility,” panelists described how they are applying business disciplines to improve livelihoods in many different nations and to serve the greater good. The seminar was filmed by Fora TV watch all three panels here.

The Institute for OneWorld Health depends on the generous support of individuals all over the world to fulfill our mission. Thank you for supporting our work and helping us to develop and provide access to safe, effective, and affordable medicines for people with neglected diseases in the developing world.

Please consider going to our website now and making a contribution, or calling us at 415.421.4700 for further information.

The Institute for One World Health is growing and searching for passionate and talented industry professionals to help us fulfill our mission of developing safe, effective, and affordable new medicines for people with diseases of poverty in the developing world.

For a current listing of open positions in our San Francisco office please visit the employment page on our website.

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