Description: Every three minutes, nearly 50 children under the age of five dies. In the same three minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills 655,000 people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for 1.41 dollar. Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can...
Brief description: Eric G. Bing, MD, PhD, MBA, is a senior fellow and director for global health at the George W. Bush Institute and a professor at Southern Methodist University. He has developed health programs throughout Africa and the Caribbean, has received the Alfred Haynes International Health Leadership Award, and is a Paul G. Rogers International Health Research Ambassador from Research!America. Marc J. Epstein is distinguished research professor of management at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. He had been a professor at Stanford, Harvard, and INSEAD. He leads a yearly trip to Africa to train students in poverty work.