The Washington Global Health Alliance, along with PATH, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI), the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign, World Vision, International Medical Corps, the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation at UW, the Global Health Council and the Global Health Technologies Coalition created “Global Health Week on the Hill” Feb. 26-March 5, 2013, o highlight the critical role U.S. foreign assistance plays in health, security and diplomatic efforts worldwide.

Bill Gates, co-founder of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at a press conference March 5, 2013 on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 put the study in historical perspective: “In fact, in the health world, I’d say there were kind of three milestones: There was 1993, where we got the World Development Report; there was some of the work that Hans Rosling did to try to show people the transitions we’re going through; and now, in a huge way, this is a big milestone that pulls everything together." To listen to the press conference,, you can tune into