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...
Episode 89: Katie Meyler Mark Leon Goldberg December 2, 2015Katie Meyler is the founder of the NGO More than Me, which provides schooling and counseling to adolescent girls in Monrovia, Liberia. Katie founded the NGO in 2009, but during the Ebola outbreak last year ...
Ebola Was Eliminated from Liberia. Now It’s Back. Alanna Shaikh, MPH November 24, 2015A fifteen-year-old boy named Nathan Groote, died of Ebola in Liberia today. It’s the first Ebola death in the country since July. In addition to a tragedy for Groote and his family, this is an unfortunate sign....
Reflecting on Lessons Learned from Ebola Outbreak Kimberly Curtis September 30, 2015As the UN celebrates the official launch of the post-2015 agenda with the Sustainable Development Goals and world leaders start laying out their views in the UN General Debate, much of this week in New York is ...
