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Christopher Elias

Title President & CEO
Organization PATH

Christopher J. Elias is president and CEO of PATH, an international nonprofit global health organization.

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A New Generation of Vaccines for All Children

June 07, 2011 / Christopher Elias

Times were tough in the United States in 1938. Unemployment was at 19 percent as the country crawled out of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, President Franklin Roosevelt decided it was time to launch a multimillion dollar campaign to confront the devastating polio epidemics that were striking the country.

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Ending the Silence on The Fraudulent Vaccine-Autism Link

January 14, 2011 / Christopher Elias

When news from the British Medical Journal emerged last week discrediting the notorious Wakefield study as “an elaborate fraud,” I expected a chorus of celebration from the vaccine community, but what I observed was relative silence.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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