Routine Immunization is More Important than Ever Mark Leon Goldberg May 6, 2020 A campaign to champion all vaccines matters now more than ever Katherine E. Gallagher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Anthony Scott, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Ifeda...
How Air Pollution, Children’s Health and GDP Correlate Mark Leon Goldberg April 30, 2020 Where does this air pollution come from? Setting fires to clear land for planting crops, or crop burning, is a common practice in many places around India. And as you can imagine, this kind of burning emits ...
Why the WHO Needs U.S. Support to Fight Coronavirus Spread Mark Leon Goldberg April 20, 2020 When President Trump announced a hold on US funding for the WHO (World Health Organization), nearly every single public health expert objected for the straightforward reason that COVID-19 does not respect borde...
WHO Launches COVID-19 “Solidarity Response Fund” to Mobilize Private Sector Coronavirus Response Mark Leon Goldberg March 13, 2020 The World Health Organization is seeking to mobilize $675 million through April to support COVID-19 preparedness and response efforts around the world. So far, governments are the key contributors to this effor...
How the Democratic Republic of the Congo Defeated the Ebola Outbreak Mark Leon Goldberg March 10, 2020 Janusz Paweska, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa The most severe outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The last patient receiving treatment for Ebola was recently...
How Community Health Workers Prevent Conflict in Kenya Mark Leon Goldberg February 13, 2020 Dr. Roseanne Njiru is a sociologist at the University of Nairobi who has conducted cutting edge field research that finds a link between healthcare and peacebuilding. Specifically, she examines the role that co...
How Multilateral Cooperation Can Stop the Coronavirus Outbreak From Spreading Mark Leon Goldberg January 23, 2020 According to the latest data from the World Health Organization a new form of coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China has spread to Japan, Thailand, South Korea and most recently, the United States. Some ...
How a vaccine scare caused polio to re-emerge in the Philippines after 19 years Joanne Lu October 15, 2019 Nineteen years after polio was officially eradicated in the Philippines, the incurable disease has made a resurgence due to widespread fears about vaccines. On September 14, health officials in the Philippin...
Map of the Day: Measles Outbreaks Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg August 13, 2019 The World Health Organization released new measles surveillance data this week, and the outlook is not good. The data shows that there have been more measles cases worldwide in the first six months of 2019 than...
