Impatient Optimists
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Wolfgang Munar

Title Senior Program Officer, Global Health
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Wolfgang Munar is Senior Program Officer in the Family Health Division. He is a convener and member of collaborative communities in the areas of (i) Diffusion and Dissemination of Health Innovations, (ii) Health Policy; (iii) Knowledge Networks; and (iii) Integrated Delivery of Family Health Services.

Posts By Wolfgang Munar

Family Health "Check Up" 2013: Lessons Learned

May 17, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar, Brian Siems

As we prepared for our annual strategy reviews in Family Health, we took the time to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past year.

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Family Health "Check Up": Looking Forward

May 17, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar

This year’s strategy review process provided an opportunity to look back and reflect on successes and failures in an effort to improve our performance and increase our impact in Family Health. As a result, our outlook includes two cross-cutting areas that we found critical for achieving lasting impact at scale.

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A Field Visit to the Kuna Territory in Mesoamerica

April 30, 2013 / Jeff Raikes, Wolfgang Munar

Jeff Raikes and Wolfgang Munar visit the communities of Carti and Wichub-Huala, in the San Blas Islands archipelago, an autonomous territory of the Kuna Peoples.

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How One Panamanian Health Initiative Prepares for Major Change

March 21, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar

We know that baselines matter to set up the starting point in the race for improved health status for the most disadvantaged communities in Mesoamerica.

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Creating Catalytic Change in Global Health

March 18, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar

A great example of catalytic partnerships in the global health space is the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative.

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  • 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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