Atlas Trail
How Global Health Got Its Institutions
From a Berlin laboratory in 1891 to a Seattle data institute founded in 2007: six institutions, none of which existed before public health became an organized field.
Stop 1 of 6.
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Opened 1891 in Berlin as the Royal Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases, one of the world's first biomedical research institutes.
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Chartered in New York in 1913, funding public health campaigns worldwide for over a century.
Stop 3 of 6.
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China's national public health institution, now known internationally by its own abbreviation, China CDC.
Stop 4 of 6.
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Founded 2002 as a financing partnership; GFATM is its own working abbreviation among the agencies it funds.
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Founded 2007 in Seattle; IHME now produces the Global Burden of Disease Study's own estimates.
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Founded 2017, headquartered in New York, the newest institution on this trail.
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