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Individual Efforts

Collective Impact

With 40 years of experience in nearly 140 countries, The Task Force is contributing to global efforts to eliminate diseases, ensure access to vaccines and other life-saving medicine, and strengthen health systems for disease surveillance, outbreak control, and routine services.

Our commitment to making good health possible for people everywhere remains unchanged, but we need your partnership now more than ever.

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We are a global health nonprofit working with partners in nearly 140 countries so that all people can achieve their full potential.

Our Focus

Eliminate Disease
Ensure Access to Vaccines
Strengthen Health Systems

Vision

We envision a world in which everyone has the opportunity to lead healthy lives free from preventable suffering, disability and death.

Mission

We address the world’s most serious and pressing threats to global health and strengthen the systems that protect and promote health.

Approach

We leverage our technical expertise and unique collaborative model to bring people together to solve the world’s most difficult health challenges and emerging health threats.

These stories, and the events of the past year, also remind us that we can always improve. With nearly 40 years of experience in more than 150 countries, The Task Force is contributing to global efforts to strengthen systems for disease surveillance, outbreak control, treatment, and vaccine access. Our increased focus on domestic and global advocacy seeks to advance policies and programs that enable all people to achieve their full potential.

GLOBAL & U.S. FEDERAL POLICY

As a formal partner of the World Health Organization and the United Nations, through our non-State actor agreement, The Task Force has actively engaged in global negotiations to improve pandemic response and preparedness. Task Force experts spoke this year at the World Health Assembly, regional meetings, and the UN Human Rights Commission. In select national forums, The Task Force has advocated for strong public health systems and vaccine delivery programs in low- and middle-income countries.

OUR PROGRAMS

OVERVIEW

Overview

The Task Force for Global Health, based in Atlanta and founded nearly 40 years ago to advance health equity, has 17 programs that work with partners in more than 150 countries.

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Recent News

Atlanta Leaders on the Future of Global Health

Atlanta Leaders on the Future of Global Health panel discussion on October 4, 2025 at The Task Force for Global Health. Photo courtesy of Ryan Baptiste for The Task Force for Global Health. Nearly 200 people gathered at The Task Force for Global Health this month to discuss Atlanta’s role...

The Task Force at the 80th United Nations General Assembly

Photo credit: Fourth Annual Meeting of the UN Group of Friends to Eliminate Hepatitis at the Yale Club in New York City on September 22, 2025. Photo credit: Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination. The Task Force for Global Health participated in the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New...