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Rick Lesaar

 

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Actions Speak...

February 14, 2025 by Rick Lesaar

Actions are a potent form of communication, as demonstrated by the Trump Administration’s defunding of WHO, dismantling of USAID, and decimation of HHS, NIH, CDC, FDA, and more. The result, in all of these cases, is that people will die, and the communication is those taking these actions simply do not care.

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February 14, 2025 /Rick Lesaar
Trump, WHO, USAID, HHS, CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS, Actions
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Split WHO in Two?

January 08, 2017 by Rick Lesaar

WHO should create a second website devoted to topics of personal health and wellness, as opposed to the broader, global health topics of its current site. 

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January 08, 2017 /Rick Lesaar
WHO, Sania Nishtar, Pew Trust, HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, dengue, yellow fever, TB, Rick Lesaar, batch1
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All Disease is Local

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September 27, 2016 by Rick Lesaar

Seven reasons why Americans appear to be far more concerned about Zika than malaria.



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September 27, 2016 /Rick Lesaar
Zika, malaria, disease, local, WHO, Rick Lesaar, batch1
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Let's Say You Have $1 Billion...

May 11, 2016 by Rick Lesaar

How valuable would it be to have a tool that both sorted NGOs by the services they performed and by how effective they were in doing so?

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May 11, 2016 /Rick Lesaar
NGOs, decision tree, database, effectiveness ratings, Global Goals, Gavi, The Global Fund, WHO, UNICEF, Care, Save the Children, iCSO, Gates Foundation, amfAR, Ansari XPrize, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Open Society Foundation, The Water Project, World Stroke Foundation, World Heart Federation, International Diabetes Foundation, Bloomberg Foundation, Rick Lesaar, batch1
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Risk versus Chance – What are the Odds?

February 11, 2016 by Rick Lesaar

A look at the words we use to describe the risk / chance / chances / odds / likelihood / possibility / probability of contracting infectious diseases. 

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February 11, 2016 /Rick Lesaar
UNICEF, WHO, CDC, The Global Fund, PAHO, fhi360, MSH, MSF, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Save the Children, Gates Foundation, Gavi, HIV, AIDS, Cancer, Malaria, Hepatitis, the flu, ebola, TB, tuberculosis, measles, influenza, flu, pheumonia, polio, diarrhea, zika, risk, chance, chances, odds, likelihood, possibility, probability, Rick Lesaar, batch1
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The Responsibility to Report Results

November 30, 2015 by Rick Lesaar

The need to differentiate Results from Activity and Enumeration and why how NGOs and GOs can best keep faith with all of their stakeholders.

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November 30, 2015 /Rick Lesaar
Results, Reporting, meaningful, comparable, faithful, rigorous, transparant, The Global Fund, Malaria No More, Against Malaria, Malaria Atlas Project, Imagine No Malaria, Nets for Life, Amazon Malaria Initiative, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, African Leaders Malaria Aliance, ALMA, NGO, WHO, PATH, CDC, MSF, incidence, prevalence, Rick Lesaar, batch1
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Social Media - Who's Engaging and Who's Engaged

September 01, 2015 by Rick Lesaar

Looking at 18, prominent, global health organizations to see what social media they are using and what levels of engagement they achieve.

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September 01, 2015 /Rick Lesaar
Social Media, UNICEF, WHO, Gavi, Doctors Without Borders, ICRC, PAHO, Save the Children, PATH, CDC, The Global Fund, PEPFAR, GAIN, The Carter Center, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Concern Worldwide, FHI 360, Care International, Rick Lesaar, batch1
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