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Zika, Ebola offer lessons for managing future pandemics
How can lessons from the Zika and Ebola outbreaks prepare the world for the next pandemic? That was the question discussed by experts during a webcast hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute on August 22, 2016. Ashish…
Partnering with industry to turn discoveries into drugs
Treatment and prevention strategies for fighting infectious diseases are likely to come from partnerships between scientists and industry, according to Eric Rubin, the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
Poll: Most in U.S. OK with late-term abortions if Zika harms fetus
Most Americans say they’d drop their aversion to late-term abortions in cases where the Zika virus has likely harmed a developing fetus, according to a new poll from STAT and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Fifty-nine…
Zika and the Rio Olympics
One expert explains why the threat of Zika at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics is actually quite low.
Zika infections in Miami prompt CDC travel advisory
For the first time ever, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a travel advisory to a part of the continental U.S.—a one-square-mile area in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, where 14 people were infected with…
Defending the ‘wonder drugs’
Antibiotics were once lauded for their impressive abilities to fight infection. Now, in an era of rampant antibiotic resistance, Harvard Chan researcher Yonatan Grad is pioneering new ways to track and control the spread of infectious disease —…
‘Bugs’ on the subway: Monitoring the microbial environment to improve public health
For immediate release: June 28, 2016 Boston, MA – The trillions of microbes that transfer from people to surfaces could provide an early warning system for the emergence of public health threats such as a flu outbreak or a rise…
Rottingen receives Norwegian Fulbright Article award
John-Arne Rottingen, adjunct professor of global health and population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and head of infectious disease control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, was awarded the Norwegian Fulbright Article of the…
Researchers discuss drug resistance in reddit ‘AMA’
On Tuesday, June 28, Harvard Chan School faculty Sarah Fortune, professor of immunology and infectious diseases, and Eric Rubin, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, discussed the growing threat of antibiotic resistance during a reddit “Ask…
Protecting against bug-borne illnesses
The best protection against diseases carried by mosquitoes and ticks—such as the Zika virus and Lyme disease—is still prevention. In an article in the July 2016 Harvard Women’s Health Watch, Mary Wilson, adjunct associate professor of global health…