Mark Daniel Maloney selected to be 2019-20 Rotary president

Mark Daniel Maloney selected to be 2019-20 Rotary president

Mark Daniel Maloney

Mark Daniel Maloney, of the Rotary Club of Decatur, Alabama, USA, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2019-20. He will be declared the president-nominee on 1 October if no challenging candidates have been suggested.

“The clubs are where Rotary happens,” says Maloney, an attorney. He aims to support and strengthen clubs at the community level, preserve Rotary’s culture as a service-oriented membership organization, and test new regional approaches for growth.

“With the eradication of polio, recognition for Rotary will be great and the opportunities will be many,” he says. “We have the potential to become the global powerhouse for doing good.”

Maloney is a principal in the law firm of Blackburn, Maloney, and Schuppert LLC, with a focus on taxation, estate planning, and agricultural law. He represents large farming operations in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, and has chaired the American Bar Association’s Committee on Agriculture in the section of taxation. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Alabama State Bar Association, and the Alabama Law Institute.

He has been active in Decatur’s religious community, chairing his church’s finance council and a local Catholic school board. He has also served as president of the Community Foundation of Greater Decatur, chair of Morgan County Meals on Wheels, and director of the United Way of Morgan County and the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce.

A Rotarian since 1980, Maloney has served as an RI director; trustee and vice chair of The Rotary Foundation; president’s aide; zone coordinator; and a leader on the Future Vision and 2014 Sydney Convention Committees. He serves on the Operations Review Committee and has served on the Rotary Peace Centers Committee. He has received the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award. Maloney and his wife, Gay, are Paul Harris Fellows, Major Donors, and Bequest Society members.

The members of the 2017-18 Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International are Ann-Britt Åsebol, Rotary Club of Falun-Kopparvågen, Sweden; Örsçelik Balkan, Rotary Club of Istanbul-Karaköy, Turkey; James Anthony Black, Rotary Club of Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland; John T. Blount, Rotary Club of Sebastopol, California, USA; Frank N. Goldberg, Rotary Club of Omaha-Suburban, Nebraska, USA; Antonio Hallage, Rotary Club of Curitiba-Leste, Paraná, Brazil; Jackson S.L. Hsieh, Rotary Club of Taipei Sunrise, Taiwan; Holger Knaack, Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany; Masahiro Kuroda, Rotary Club of Hachinohe South, Aomori, Japan; Larry A. Lunsford, Rotary Club of Kansas City-Plaza, Missouri, USA; Anne L. Matthews (chair), Rotary Club of Columbia East, South Carolina, USA; P.T. Prabhakar, Rotary Club of Madras Central, Tamil Nadu, India; M.K. Panduranga Setty, Rotary Club of Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Andy Smallwood, Rotary Club of Gulfway-Hobby Airport (Houston), Texas, USA; Norbert Turco, Rotary Club of Ajaccio, Corse, France; Yoshimasa Watanabe, Rotary Club of Kojima, Okayama, Japan; and Sangkoo Yun, Rotary Club of Sae Hanyang, Seoul, Korea.

At the Rotary International Convention, global leaders and key donors affirm their commitment to ending polio

At the Rotary International Convention, global leaders and key donors affirm their commitment to ending polio

By Ryan Hyland and Teresa Schmedding

With polio on the brink of eradication, nations from around the world and key donors pledged more than $1 billion on Monday to energize the global fight to end the paralyzing disease.

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Bill Gates, co-chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and RI President John Germ share the recent news about their partnership in the fight to eradicate polio.

The historic pledges of new funds at the Rotary Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, will go toward drastically shrinking the $1.5 billion gap in the funding that the partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative say is needed to reduce polio cases to zero worldwide. Just five cases have been reported this year, the lowest number in history.

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said ending polio would be one of the world’s greatest achievements.

“Polio is the thing I spend the most time on. Everyday I look at my email to see if we have a new case,” Gates said. “I’m very inspired to be part of this. I’m also very humbled.”

Rotary International President John F. Germ announced that Rotary would increase its commitment and raise $50 million per year over the next three years. Rotary has raised more than $1.7 billion to fight the disease since 1985.

“Right now, every time a new case is identified, it really could be the last one the world ever sees,” Germ said.

Gates told the crowd of nearly 24,000 that, starting 1 July, his foundation will extend its 2-to-1 match to cover up to $50 million in donations to Rotary for each of the next three years. The match and donations to Rotary would add up to $150 million per year over the next three years, which will add up to $450 million to the fight.

The new funding will go toward polio eradication efforts such as disease surveillance, responses to any outbreaks, and the vaccination of more than 400 million children annually.

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Why Zero Matters

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Polio cases have been reduced by 99.9% worldwide since 1988. But continuing efforts to end the disease are critical to eradicating polio for good. We’ve immunized over 2.5 billion children in the world’s most sophisticated global health initiative. Help us make history by getting to zero. Learn more at endpolio.org

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List of Pledges

 

 

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List of Pledges

$1.3 billion pledge to end polio

At the Rotary International Convention, global leaders and key donors affirm their commitment to ending Read more ›

       $450 million

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    “The incredible efforts of Rotarians, governments, health workers and partners—including those who have gathered here today—are close to making history,” said Bill Gates. “These new commitments will help ensure that we can finish the job.”

  • $154.7 million

    Pakistan

    The significance of this moment cannot be overstated. Seeing such strong and unrelenting support from countries around the world reminds us that this is a truly global effort and renews our national resolve to banish this disease from our country.

  • $150 million

    Rotary International

    “The global eradication of polio has been Rotary’s top priority since 1985. Rotary members have been the driving force behind the fight to end polio since its inception,” said John Germ, President of Rotary International.

    • $130 million

      United Kingdom

    • $75 million

      Canada

      The government of Canada has been a part of this effort from the very beginning and will not stop until every boy and girl around the world is safe from this disease.

    • $61.4 million

      European Commission

      The eradication of polio will not just put an end to a significant threat to newborn and child health; it will also be a sustainable global public good that will help improve the health of everyone, everywhere.

    • $55 million

      Japan

      For as long as polio circulates anywhere, it is a threat to children everywhere. We are committing to ending this disease and strengthening global health security for future generations.

Polio this week as of 2 August 2017

THIS WEEK

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Polio this week as of 2 August 2017

  • Read the latest WHO & UNICEF situation report on the outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Syria.
  • The July edition of Polio News is out – subscribe and get the newsletter delivered to your inbox each month.
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan programs continue coordination at the national and sub-national levels, with special focus on improving the quality of program implementation (supplementary immunization activities & surveillance) in the southern corridor (Quetta Block – Greater Kandahar) with ongoing WPV1 transmission.
  • Summary of newly-reported viruses this week:  Pakistan – one new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1)-positive environmental samples.  See country-specific section below, for more details.

Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases

Total cases Year-to-date 2017 Year-to-date 2016 Total in 2016
WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV
Globally 8 31 19 3 37 5
—In Endemic Countries 8 0 19 0 37 2
—In Non-Endemic Countries 0 31 0 3 0 3

Case breakdown by country

Countries Year-to-date 2017 Year-to-date 2016 Total in 2016 Onset of paralysis of most recent case
WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV WPV cVDPV
Afghanistan 5 0 6 0 13 0 19-Jun-2017 NA
Democratic Republic Of The Congo 0 4 0 0 0 0 NA 18-Apr-2017
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 0 0 0 3 0 3 NA 11-Jan-2016
Nigeria 0 0 0 0 4 1 21-Aug-2016 28-Oct-2016
Pakistan 3 0 13 0 20 1 11-Jun-2017 17-Dec-2016
Syrian Arab Republic 0 27 0 0 0 0 NA 6-Jun-2017

NA: onset of paralysis in most recent case is prior to 2016. Figures exclude non-AFP sources. Lao PDR cVDPV1, all others cVDPV2. cVDPV definition: see document “Reporting and classification of vaccine-derived polioviruses” at [pdf]