Dr. Jay Wenger leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s polio eradication efforts within the Global Development Program. He manages a high-performing team and works across the foundation to drive instrumental advocacy work, resource mobilization, communications, and research and product development. He represents the foundation both internally and externally and helps to shape and execute the polio eradication strategy.
To turn polio from endangered to extinct, we need to stay focused, writes Jay Wenger, director of the polio program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in this exclusive guest commentary.
