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Helping underserved children in Pakistan
Anita Zaidi, SM'99, director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s enteric and diarrheal diseases program, and a pediatrician who gave up her career in America to employ her expertise in infectious diseases and child survival in her…
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Battling infectious diseases takes a village
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Two honored for work in tropical medicine
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Study suggests antibodies may offer protection against tuberculosis
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Flaminia Catteruccia wins prestigious Faculty Scholar award
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