Impatient Optimists
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Shelley Thakral

Title Senior Communications Officer for the India Country Office
Organization Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Shelley Thakral is the Senior Communications officer for the India Country Office. Before joining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Shelley worked as a BBC journalist for 15 years.

Posts By Shelley Thakral

Q&A: Gates Foundation's Orin Levine on What We Can Learn From Ending Polio in India

February 11, 2013 / Shelley Thakral

There are a number of reasons for someone interested in vaccines to come to India. It’s home to some of the most important vaccine manufacturers in the world, it’s home to tremendous scientific progress and research and development. It’s not home to polio anymore, because polio has been eliminated from India for two years now!

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Taking it to the Streets: Maternal Health Care Goes Mobile

March 22, 2012 / Gary Darmstadt, Wendy Prosser, Shelley Thakral, Usha Kiran Tarigopula

The Indian state of Bihar continues to amaze me. That state has made enormous strides in improving the health of its citizens.

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

  • "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

  • 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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