ABOUT PDRF

The Parasitic Disease Research Foundation was created to support a more coordinated and strategic approach to parasitic and neglected tropical diseases.

Across the field, important work is already being done by clinicians, researchers, public health professionals, diagnostic innovators, biotechnology companies, and global health organizations. However, the ecosystem remains fragmented across institutions, geographies, disease categories, funding streams, and technology platforms.

PDRF is being developed to strengthen the connective tissue between these areas.

The foundation’s role is to support visibility, collaboration, and long-term engagement around parasitic disease research, diagnostic infrastructure, therapeutic development, treatment resistance, and public health innovation.

PDRF is not designed to replace clinical or scientific institutions. It is being built to help connect serious stakeholders, identify under-addressed gaps, and support efforts that can move the field forward.

Parasitic and neglected tropical diseases intersect with global travel, labor, migration, health system capacity, antimicrobial resistance, biomedical innovation, economic productivity, and human quality of life. Addressing these challenges requires more than isolated awareness. It requires coordinated expertise, strategic capital, durable partnerships, and better pathways between science, medicine, public health, and implementation.

PDRF exists to help build those pathways.