Currently, only 10 percent of global health R&D is devoted to diseases that affect 90 percent of the world's population. An estimated 8-9.7 million people die each year from HIV/AIDS, pneumococcus, tuberculosis, malaria, rotavirus, and human papilloma virus. What could and should UC Berkeley, working with other Bay Area research institutions such as UCSF - do to combat these and other diseases? Consider a broad set of possibilities, such as cures, diagnostics, public health interventions, evaluation, public policy, etc.
