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Global Health: Solve Easy Problems First Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every year, America spends $30 billion on "big name" diseases like AIDS, TB, polio, and malaria, but makes very little progress toward curing them worldwide. For Brian Mullaney, founder of Smile Train and WonderWork, this is tragic, considering that children and adults with easily curable problems like cleft palate and some forms of blindness lack access to low-cost surgeries that could significantly improve their lives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIAN MULLANEY: Brian Mullaney has worked for or founded several organizations that offer free surgeries to people in need around the world. He is currently CEO of WonderWork, a company he co-founded. Previously, Brian co-founded Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft charity and served as its CEO for 10 years. At Smile Train, Brian and his team pioneered a new approach to providing free surgery in developing countries by empowering local doctors to solve the problem themselves. He also leveraged his 30-year marketing background to build one of the most cost-effective fundraising programs in the nonprofit world, raising more than $750,000,000 for clefts in less than 10 years. Today, Smile Train has more than 2,500,000 don

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