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Many African nations are extremely vulnerable to infectious disease outbreaks, including Ebola, Lassa fever, Zika, and West Nile virus. A March 17, 2021, Wired article looked at the joint effort of two scientists—Christian Happi and Pardis Sabeti—to develop…
Marc Lipsitch, Pardis Sabeti elected to National Academy of Medicine
Two Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty members, Marc Lipsitch and Pardis Sabeti, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Africa CDC head is driving a new public health agenda on the continent
March 12, 2020 – Africa faces a range of public health challenges, from infectious diseases such as cholera, malaria, Ebola, HIV, and more recently, coronavirus, to a growing burden of chronic diseases. Other problems in Africa, including poverty,…
Response to coronavirus could shape legacy of WHO and its director-general
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, must navigate myriad political and economic factors as the agency responds to coronavirus outbreak, according to news reports. A February 10, 2020, Science article explored the challenges Ghebreyesus faces,…
Keeping perspective on the coronavirus outbreak
News about the coronavirus that recently spread from Wuhan, China, has increasingly made headlines and filled news segments, yet epidemiologists and infectious disease experts are cautioning the public against panicking. “We don’t have evidence yet to suggest this…
DRC Ebola outbreak unlikely to be stopped without U.S. intervention
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history—has received far too little attention as it poses significant regional and global risks, according to Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health…
Concerns raised about possible Ebola cases in Tanzania
After unofficial reports about several suspected Ebola cases in Tanzania, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement rebuking the African nation for not providing more detailed information. A September 22, 2019 article in Al Jazeera noted that…
World Bank’s pandemic bonds proving problematic
A World Bank financing mechanism that was intended to help provide rapid funding to fight major disease outbreaks has often been slow in fulfilling that goal, according to news reports. So-called “pandemic bonds” were created in the wake…
Is publishing unvetted clinical research a good idea?
A new website has been launched that enables clinicians to share their research results before peer review, with the goal of speeding up scientific discovery. According to a June 6, 2019 article in Nature, some experts are concerned…
Flipping the Paradigm in Ebola Treatment
Shevin Jacob, MPH ’03, wants desperately ill patients to receive quality care, not just diagnosis and isolation.
