PODCAST: How Dr. Vanessa Kerry Helps Strengthen Health Systems Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg August 16, 2018Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the Co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health. This is an international NGO that works in five sub-Saharan countries to bolster the education of medical professionals.This is a vital...
There is a New Ebola Outbreak — This Time it is in a War Zone. How Worried Should We Be? Alanna Shaikh, MPH August 14, 2018The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is current facing an Ebola outbreak. There were 52 confirmed and probable cases as of August 11th, and 39 people have died. The problem is not that Ebola is back. We ...
PODCAST: A New Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo Mark Leon Goldberg May 29, 2018The ebola outbreak ongoing the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most severe ebola outbreak since the 2014 calamity in west Africa that killed over 11,000 people.By the last week of May, there a h...
PODCAST: Helene Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Refugee From Liberia Mark Leon Goldberg September 5, 2017Helene Cooper is the Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times. She is also the author of the new book Madame President: The extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf which is a biography of the Li...
It’s Not Just Syria. A Record Number of Refugees Are Fleeing from New Conflicts. Kimberly Curtis June 20, 2017Today marks World Refugee Day. Once again, this past year was record breaking for refugees and the forcibly displaced, albeit all the wrong records. The number of forcibly displaced in the world hit a record h...
A “Mystery Disease” is Killing People in Liberia. Can it be stopped like ebola? Mark Leon Goldberg May 10, 2017On April 23, an 11-year-old boy was admitted to a local hospital in a remote county of Liberia. He was vomiting, had diarrhea and was delirious. The day before, he attended a funeral. One hour after being admi...
Ebola will return in 2017. Here’s Why Alanna Shaikh, MPH December 28, 2016In 2017 we’ll be seeing Ebola again. Probably a small outbreak or two, but another full-on pandemic is entirely possible. We survived the Ebola pandemic of 2014-2015, but we didn’t defeat it. We didn’t learn en...
Another person died of Ebola in West Africa. So Why is the Emergency Considered “Over”? Alanna Shaikh, MPH April 1, 2016On March 29th, an emergency committee of public health experts, officials and scientists convened by the World Health Organization declared that the Ebola situation in West Africa no longer constitutes a “Publi...
How the USA and the UN Helped Defeat Ebola in West Africa Mark Leon Goldberg January 14, 2016Ed note. This post was originally published in February 2015, when the WHO declared that the ebola outbreak in West Africa had largely been contained. Today, January 13, 2016, the World Health Organization de...
