Congratulations to Victoria Hale! The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation has named Victoria one of its distinguished fellows. Each year,the foundation awards fellowships to individuals who demonstrate exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work.

Victoria is founder and CEO of the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company with a mission to develop affordable drugs to treat diseases that plague the world’’s poorest communities.The institute recently received approval for and brought to market its first drug, paromomycin, a low-cost antibiotic cure for visceral leishmaniasis, which afflicts approximately 1.5 million people worldwide, primarily in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sudan. Research to create paromomycin was largely funded by a grant of $10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Treatments underway for malaria, diarrheal disease, and Chagas disease hold the potential to save the lives of millions more.

We are thrilled to have Victoria join us this year in Camden to share with us her amazing work and future developments in global health care.