Forbes features interview with president of Friends of Global Fight

Sep 26 2012

Forbes features an interview with Deborah Derrick, president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in which she "discusse[s] her motivations for pursuing a career in international affairs and social change, her experience as a senior program officer at the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation], what lessons she learned during her time at Gates that are most applicable in her new executive role at Friends of the Global Fight, the current landscape of challenges and solutions, and the role of technology in accelerating progress." In the interview, Derrick said, "The mobilization to defeat these diseases in the past decade has been stunningly successful. ... But there is so much more that needs to be done. If we don't muster the resources to keep up the fight, and all commit to doing our part in a time of constrained resources, we risk backsliding on the progress we've already invested in" (Kanani, 9/21).