Sentences with phrase «challenging global health problem»

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Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

The challenge is modeled on, and being coordinated with, the Grand Challenges program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports high - risk, high - payoff approaches to solving global health and development problems.

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems.

Some students select the problem they will attempt to solve on the basis of the global development challenges they are most passionate about (such as hunger, health, education, gender equality, or the environment).