In 2021, the longstanding global health goal to eradicate malaria experienced a paradigm shift: after 30 years of development, the first vaccine for the disease was endorsed by the World … Continue reading “A multidisciplinary approach to eradicating malaria”
Scientists in Africa have been monitoring and sequencing pathogens since long before the pandemic. The world benefited from this network when scientists including Sikhulile Moyo, laboratory director for the Botswana-Harvard … Continue reading “The 100 Most Influential People of 2022 – Tulio de Oliveira and Sikhulile Moyo”
Over the past few years of his PhD research, Harim Won has been laying the groundwork to develop a new type of antibiotic to treat tuberculosis (TB), addressing the long-standing … Continue reading “A better antibiotic for tuberculosis treatment”
Before COVID, tuberculosis was the leading infectious disease killer in the world. To mark World TB Day, March 24, Sarah Fortune, John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases … Continue reading “The infectious disease that nobody ever thinks about”
What will the future of SARS-CoV-2 look like, and what should we as a community consider in our response to changing conditions? Yonatan Grad, Melvin J. and Geraldine Glimcher Associate … Continue reading “As Omicron wanes, what is the state of the pandemic?”