Focusing Our Best Science
Where it is Needed Most.

Of the 1,393 new drugs approved between 1975 and 1990, only 13 (1%) were for tropical diseases

OneWorld Health is actively identifying and developing new drugs for neglected tropical diseases.

Insidious infections such as leishmaniasis, diarrheal diseases, malaria, Chagas disease and chronic gastrointestinal infections (such as infections by soil-transmitted helminthes) continue to plague developing countries, threatening the lives and livelihoods of billions of people worldwide.

OneWorld Health Programs

Visceral leishmaniasis: an old drug becomes a new treatment for an ancient disease

Diarrheal disease: an anti-secretory agent could prevent unecessary childhood deaths

Malaria: A unique partnership will apply synthetic biology to help solve a drug supply problem in many countries of the world.

Other Areas of Interest

Chagas disease: iOWH conducted a landscape anlysis of Chagas disease

Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH): New agents against hookworm and other chronic debilitating infections impacting children and pregnant women