Victoria Hale founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company

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in 2000 and was its chairman and CEO until 2008, when she became Chair Emeritus. She then went on to found Medicines360, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing medicines for women and children, including pregnant women.

Life

Hale earned her Ph.D. in

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from the

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. She is an Adjunct Associate

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in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF, and an advisor to the

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(WHO). Her past affiliations include the

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's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and Genentech.

Awards

*2004 Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum (awarded by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
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*2005 Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation (From

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magazine) *2006

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*2006 Ashoka Fellow *2007 One of Glamour Magazine's Women of the Year for her work developing and providing pharmaceutical care to the world's poor (http://www.glamour.com/news/woty/articles/2007/11/victoria_hale)

References

OneWorld Health team profiles

Bibliography

* Buse, Uwe ''Die Achse des Guten'' in der Spiegel nr. 48/27 Nov. 2006 (German language)

External links

Medicines360 official websiteThe Institute for OneWorld Heath official websiteMacArthur Fellow profileVictoria Hale, an uncommon hero eradicating black fever
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