Helen Matzger
Title
Program Officer
Organization
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Helen is a Program Officer on the Vaccine Delivery Team supporting the Enteric and Diarrheal Disease portfolio on cholera and typhoid vaccines. She has experience working in the private and public sectors, including time with Helen Keller International,
the Institute for OneWorld Health, and the University of California, San Francisco. She has spent significant time working and living internationally including time in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as a project officer for a country-wide maternal and child health and
nutritional surveillance system and as director for a Phase 4 study and access program in Patna, Bihar, India. Helen has led large and complex projects involving many partners in a global setting and conducted research and authored articles published in peer-reviewed
journals.
Posts By Helen Matzger
A recently compiled list of Vaccine Influencers is making the rounds. It is dominated by the usual suspects such as heads of agencies and departments, including our own. So many other women and men in many countries came immediately to mind for us—those
who have been just as valuable as influencers in ensuring access to valuable vaccines for children globally. We would like to acknowledge some of these unsung heroes, people who greatly influence immunization programs the world over.
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January 14, 2013 / Helen Matzger
It’s been gratifying to see the interest in cholera prevention and control and the overall message that we need to do more.
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January 02, 2013 / Helen Matzger
When cholera breaks out in a country it can sometimes take weeks for a case to be confirmed if there are no trained lab technicians or adequate supplies. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports the Africhol project of Agence de Médecine Préventive
that works with Ministries of Health in nine African countries to conduct cholera surveillance.
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December 10, 2012 / Helen Matzger
Amazingly (to me) social media is now important to my work; offering a larger, more comprehensive picture of cholera outbreaks and a way to communicate about cholera and other diseases to people around the world. The more we know, in real time, about where
cholera is appearing, the better we can fight it.
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October 19, 2012 / Helen Matzger
How should we go about controlling endemic cholera - cholera that appears in the same area of a country, year after year?
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