Impatient Optimists
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Doug Holtzman

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

Doug Holtzman is a senior program officer in the Global Health Program at the foundation.

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Breath Is Life

November 12, 2011 / Doug Holtzman

For the most part we take breathing for granted, but what if you had to fight for each breath?

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Saving Kids, Beating Pneumonia

November 12, 2010 / Doug Holtzman

When kids get pneumonia in the United States and Europe, they don’t usually die from it. In the rest of the world, there’s still a very good chance that they will.

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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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