Book Read Free

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men

Page 24

by Bill Shore


  research at GSK

  Ban Ki-moon

  Bangladesh

  Barnes, Ethne

  Barry, Michelle

  Beare, Nick

  Bed nets

  mosquitoes’ resistance to

  not long-term solution for malaria

  as part of Millennium Development

  produced in Tanzania

  provided free vs. social marketing

  public awareness

  UNICEF program

  universal coverage concept

  Bennis, Warren

  Bezanson, Thomas

  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. See Gates Foundation

  Biosciences Energy Institute

  Bird malaria

  Black fever

  Bloomberg, Michael

  Bloomberg School of Public Health. See also Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Malaria Research Institute

  Bogotá, Colombia

  BP plc

  Bradach, Jeffrey

  Breakthrough thinking leading to discoveries

  character qualities

  good is not good enough

  Brewer, Tom

  Brother Thomas. See Bezanson, Thomas

  Brown, Gordon

  Burke, Donald

  Business travelers as market. See Travelers as markets for vaccines

  Cambodia

  Campbell, Kent

  Canada, Geoffrey

  Cardin, Benjamin

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Caroline Center, Baltimore

  Carson, Rachel

  Cause-related marketing

  Celera Genomics

  Center for Vaccine Development

  Center on Wealth and Philanthropy

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  Centre for Novel Agricultural Products

  Cerebral malaria

  Cerrell, Joe

  Chagas’ disease

  Chambers, Ray

  Charge Against Hunger campaign

  Charity. See Philanthropic organizations

  Childhood hunger

  Childhood mortality from malaria

  in Africa

  efforts require breakthrough thinking

  portrayed in photographic exhibit

  rates

  Roepe on

  symptoms described

  China

  Chloroquine

  Circumsporozoite (CS) protein

  Clinical trials of malaria vaccines

  effectiveness measurements of RTS,S questioned

  hotel phase

  of LSA-1

  monitored by WHO

  and pharmaceutical companies

  of RTS,S

  Sanaria vaccine Phase I

  of U.S. Army

  of U.S. Navy

  College Summit, Washington, D.C.

  Coll-Seck, Awa Marie

  Community wealth created by nonprofits

  Community Wealth Ventures

  Competition

  among malaria researchers

  among nonprofits

  Cost considerations for disease control

  DALYs of neglected diseases

  developing countries vs. travelers market

  economics of production, distribution

  and increased public awareness

  scaling drives down costs

  See also Affordability

  Côte d’Ivoire

  Creation Out of Clay (Williams)

  Creative capitalism philosophy (Gates)

  Dahl, Ophelia

  DALYs

  Dari, Alima. See Alima

  DDT spraying to control malaria

  Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Dengue fever

  Department of Defense, U.S.

  Department of Energy, U.S.

  Department of State, U.S.

  Deresiewicz, William

  Disability adjusted life years. See DALYs

  Diseases and Human Evolution (Barnes)

  Distribution of medicine and vaccines

  of bed nets

  complexity of

  economics built into production

  and OneWorld Health

  through business relations with Africa

  Doctors Without Borders

  Doolan, Denise

  Doolin, Wally

  E. coli fermentations for artemisinin production

  Economic market gaps

  filled by nonprofits

  filled by philanthropy

  filled by science/economics/ philanthropy

  as growth capital for nonprofits

  Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

  Entrepreneurship. See Social entrepreneurship

  Epstein, Judith

  background

  critical of RTS,S trials methodology

  Eradication of malaria

  delay of infection vs. prevention of infection

  as impossible, naïve

  Melinda Gates’s perspective

  requires imagination, breakthrough thinking

  requires political solutions, market mechanism

  vs. medicinal treatment

  See also Vaccines for malaria

  Ethiopia

  Fagone, Jason

  Failures of imagination

  from focusing on symptoms not causes

  as reasons for intractable problems

  suffered in polio war

  as underpinning of breakthrough thinking

  Fauci, Anthony

  FDA. See Food and Drug Administration

  Fee-for-service nonprofit organizations

  Field hospitals

  Filarial parasite

  Financial support for malaria control

  GAVI and AMC

  progress and dynamics

  Ray Chambers’s perspective

  See also Cost considerations for disease control; Gates Foundation; Philanthropic organizations

  Fisher Scientific

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S.

  drug approval process

  guarantees required from Sanaria

  vaccine process

  The Food Trust

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Gates, Bill

  on creative capitalism

  on global diseases

  on low incentives to serve poor people

  on stretching market forces’ reach

  Gates, Melinda, stands for eradicating malaria

  Gates Foundation

  addresses long-term market solutions

  and Ballou

  catalyzes global health

  funds Amyris Biotechnologies

  funds hookworm vaccine research

  funds Institute for OneWorld Health

  funds metabolically engineered artemisinin

  funds Sanaria through MVI

  as general contractor revitalizing anti-malaria efforts

  and polio reemergence

  Gaudi, Antonio

  GAVI

  Genentech

  Genet, Jean

  Genetic engineering

  in Hotez’s hookworm vaccine

  malaria-resistant mosquitoes

  Genome mapping/genomics

  and extraction of Plasmodium falciparum parasite

  and faster sequencing

  of human genome

  of mosquito genome

  for synthetic biology

  Ghana

  GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

  Hoffman’s alternative malaria vaccine

  RTS,S vaccine

  vaccine effectiveness measurements questioned

  Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  Global health

  advanced by breakthrough thinkers

  catalyzed by Gates Foundation

  individual disease strategies vs. broad health goals

  R&D priorities

  GM (genetically modified) mosquitoe
s. See Genetic engineering

  Good, Michael

  Good but not good enough philosophy

  Goozner, Merrill

  Gorgas, William Crawford

  Grabowsky, Mark

  Grand Challenges Exploration Grants

  Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition

  Griffin, Diane

  GSK. See GlaxoSmithKline

  Guatemala

  Haiti

  Hale, Victoria

  creates nonprofit pharmaceutical OneWorld Health

  on increasing interest in neglected diseases

  and Keasling, Hoffman

  Harlem Children’s Zone

  Harris, Chuck

  Harvard School of Public Health

  Hepatitis B vaccine

  Herskowitz, Ahvie

  Hilleman, Maurice

  Hochschild, Adam

  Hodes, Rick

  Hoffman, Stephen

  background and character qualities

  clinical trial for Sanaria vaccine

  early practices and research

  harvests, irradiates, P. falciparum parasite

  obtains financial, professional, support

  researches with wife Kim Lee Sim

  scales existing vaccine discovery

  See also Sanaria; Vaccines for malaria

  Holder, Tony

  Hookworm

  described

  vaccine developed by Hotez

  Hooper, Arthur

  Hotez, Peter

  Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative

  Hunger eradication vs. feeding people. See also Childhood hunger; Share Our Strength

  Idol Gives Back television program

  Imagination

  leading to breakthroughs

  as a moral, compassionate, connection

  of Steve Hoffman

  Imagination gap

  Immunity against malaria

  acquired by adults

  lost by pregnant women

  threshold issue for Sanaria vaccine

  triggered by attenuated parasite/ vaccine

  India

  Indian Medical Service

  Indonesia

  Innovative Developing Countries (IDCs)

  Insecticides

  Institute for OneWorld Health

  creation described

  as nonprofit pharmaceutical

  Instituto Butantan

  International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)

  Investigational New Drug Application

  Jacobs-Lorena, Marcelo

  Jewish Social Services Agency, Rockville, Maryland

  Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. See Malaria Research Institute

  Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. See also Bloomberg School of Public Health; Malaria Research Institute

  Joint BioEnergy Institute

  Karolinski Institute, Makerere University

  Kashf financial services company

  Kaslow, David

  Kean, Ben

  Keasling, Jay

  compared to Hoffman

  creates Amyris

  on medicine-as-treatment approach

  synthetic artemisinin

  synthetic fuel research

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kenya

  Kenya Medical Research Institute

  Khosla Ventures

  Kleiner Perkins

  Kochi, Arata

  Kopp, Wendy

  Kornberg, Arthur

  Kozol, Jonathan

  Kumar, Nirbhay

  Lanar, David

  Lariam (mefloquine)

  Laveran, Alphonse

  Leadership characteristics

  Levine, Myron M.

  Li Guo Qiao

  Liberia

  Liquid nitrogen for freezing vaccines

  Liver state antigen vaccine. See LSA-1

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  Long, Carole

  Loucq, Christian

  LSA-1 (liver stage antigen) vaccine

  Luke, Tom

  Lumefatrine

  Mahmoud, Adel

  “Malaria: Blood, Sweat, and Tears” photographic exhibit

  Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)

  Malaria eradication efforts

  compared to medicinal treatments

  of Hoffman summarized

  reasons for failures

  require breakthrough thinking

  Malaria Forum

  Malaria Institute of Macha

  Malaria No More

  Malaria parasites

  become stronger with counterfeit drugs

  disease cycle complexity

  irradiated

  merozoites

  mosquito transmission discovered

  Plasmodium falciparum extracted

  replication, mutation, in red blood cells

  research described

  See also Resistance of malaria to antimalarial drugs

  Malaria R&D Alliance

  Malaria Research Institute

  Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI). See PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

  Malerone

  Manson, Patrick

  Manson’s Tropical Diseases (Cook and Zumla)

  Marines, U.S.

  Market-directed organizations (MDOs)

  Markets for malaria cures

  with cause-related marketing partnerships

  creating

  found, created, by social entrepreneurs

  Gates leverages commercial investments

  importance of affordability

  incentives lacking

  military personnel, travelers

  Mary’s Center, Washington, D.C.

  McNeil, John

  MDOs. See Market-directed organizations

  Measles virus

  Médecins Sans Frontières. See Doctors Without Borders

  Medicinal treatment efforts

  about

  artemisinin

  chloroquine

  mefloquine

  quinine

  sulfadoxine pyrimethamine

  varied approaches

  vs. eradication through vaccines

  See also Bed nets; Vector control

  Mefloquine (Lariam)

  Melo, John

  Menendez, Clara

  Merozoite parasites

  Military operations affected by malaria

  American Revolutionary War

  as focus for research

  as leading cause of casualties

  U.S. Civil War

  Vietnam War

  World War II Pacific campaigns

  Military personnel as market for vaccines

  Millennium Development goals

  Millennium Promise

  Miller, Clara

  Miller, Louis

  Moral imagination

  Moree, Melinda

  Mosquirix

  Mozambique

  Muhwezi, Jim

  Müller, Paul

  Multi-drug-resistant (MDR) gene

  MVI. See PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

  NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

  National Institute for Medical Research (London)

  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  Naval Medical Research Center, U.S.

  Naval Medical Research Institute, U.S.

  Naval Medical Research Unit Two (NAMRU-2)

  Navy, U.S.

  Neglected diseases

  addressed by OneWorld Health

  discussed

  financial considerations (see Cost considerations for disease control)

  increased attention to

  ranked with DALYs metric

  Nepal

  Neustadt, Richard

  Newman, Jack

  Newton, Paul

  Nigeria

  Nongovernmental organizations. See Nonprofit organizations

  Nonprofit Finance Fund

  Nonprofit organizations

  with cause
-related marketing

  combined with political, market, forces

  fee-for-service programs

  funding of malaria research

  and gross margin concept

  with long-term market mechanisms

  OneWorld Health pharmaceutical

  within science disciplines

  sustainability and scaling

  transformed into MDOs

  Novartis

  Nussenzweig, Ruth

  about

  attenuated sporozoite vaccine

  discovers potential of weakened parasite

  on Hoffman’s clinical trials

  identifies circumsporozoite as vaccine target

  parasite irradiation research

  Nussenzweig, Victor

  O’Connor, Francis

  On Becoming a Leader (Bennis)

  OneWorld Health. See Institute for OneWorld Health

  Open Society Institute

  Optimism as a characteristic

  P. falciparum. See Plasmodium falciparum parasite

  Pakistan

  Pallotta, Dan

  Panama Canal

  Parasitic diseases

  black fever

  elephantiasis

  hookworm

  as lacking vaccines

  tropical

  See also Malaria parasites

  Paromomycin

  Partners in Health (PIH)

  Pasteur, Louis

  PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI)

  on Sanaria clinical trials Phase I

  as Sanaria’s main funder

  Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative

  Pharmaceutical industry

  Pheap Sung

  Philanthropic organizations

  fill failed economic markets gap

  help nonprofits accountability to market forces

  look for returns on investments

  with market mechanisms for social goals

  prefer vertical disease-fighting strategies

  as solvers, funders, of social problems

  with venture capital investing

  Plasmodium falciparum parasite

  in clinical trials

  complexity of life-cycle

  extracted by Hoffman

  in RTS,S trials

  transmission-blocking research

  Polio vaccine

  Politics of disease eradication

  addressed by DALYs

  balanced with market mechanisms

  with government as market

  setbacks due to loss of infrastructure

  and voiceless malaria victims

  PopTech conference

  Pre-erythrocytic stage vaccines

  Presidents Malaria Initiative (PMI)

  Presidents’ Summit

  Problem solving

  new roles of foundations

  with no market incentives for poor people

  of root causes vs. amelioration

  strategies

  through imaginative leaps

  Product Development Partnerships

  Project Mercy

 

‹ Prev