Linda Venczel
Title
Senior Program Officer
Organization
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Linda joined the Global Health Program in 2007 as Senior Program Officer, Global Health Delivery. In this role, she is currently focusing her efforts on expanding the Global Health Program’s approach in global health and engagement in polio eradication. Linda came to the foundation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she most recently served as the deputy branch chief of the polio eradication branch. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, West Africa, from 1997-1999. A doctoral and master’s of public health graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Linda is an epidemiologist and microbiologist. Her Ph.D. was focused on water and sanitation improvements to reduce
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May 30, 2012 / Linda Venczel
Fathers and mothers in China travel long distances to get their children vaccinated against polio.
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