VIDEO: A BBC Journalist Snuck Into Yemen To Report on the Worst Humanitarian Crisis Mark Leon Goldberg July 28, 2017 Journalists routinely hitch rides on UN planes. If there is space on airlifts transporting humanitarian goods and personnel, the UN generally welcomes journalists to ride along and report on some forgotten huma...
Here’s How Much Even a Small Decrease in Measles Vaccine Coverage Will Cost Hospitals in the US Mark Leon Goldberg July 24, 2017 About 93% of children aged 2 to 11 in the United States have received their Measles, Mumps Rubella Vaccine--MMR last year. This is despite an active disinformation campaign about vaccine safety that is pushing...
Here’s how much it will cost to give everyone healthcare, everywhere in the world Mark Leon Goldberg July 18, 2017 With all eyes focused on the healthcare debate in the United States, the World Health Organization yesterday released a report quantifying how much it would cost to deliver quality healthcare to everyone in the...
A Cholera Outbreak in War Torn Yemen Just Crossed a Major Threshold Mark Leon Goldberg June 12, 2017 Data from the World Health Organization Cholera is spreading like wildfire in Yemen. The epidemic began in October with 15 reported cases. As of last week, there were more than 100,000, with thous...
Climate Change Will Cause 250,000 Additional Deaths Per Year. Here’s How It Will Kill US Alanna Shaikh, MPH June 9, 2017 President Trump announced last week that he will be pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, the world’s best shot at keeping climate change to survivable levels. It is a short-sighted decisio...
For the first time, a new strain of bird flu was transmitted human-to-human. This is highly unusual–and could be the first sign of new global pandemic. Alanna Shaikh, MPH May 26, 2017 In 1918, the world was rocked by pandemic flu. A virulent strain of influenza, H1N1 influenza swept across the whole planet. A fifth of the world’s population was infected, and 20-40 million people died. It kil...
The White House Budget Contains Gratuitous Cuts to Humanitarian Relief, Global Health and the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg May 23, 2017 The White House budget released today contains massive cuts to the foreign affairs budget. Overall, the proposed FY18 budget is a 32 percent cut over FY 17 levels, from $59.1 billion in FY’17 to $40.1 billion i...
Map of the Day: In Yemen, a Looming Famine and Current Cholera Outbreak form a Deadly Nexus. Mark Leon Goldberg May 19, 2017 Today's map comes from the European Commission. It shows an alarming cholera outbreak is spreading in Yemen in exactly the same places that are suffering most from food insecurity. To date, there have been over...
It’s Official: ALL US Health Assistance–from Measles to Malaria– is caught up in US abortion politics Mark Leon Goldberg May 16, 2017 One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to re-instate the "Global Gag Rule." This is a rule that has been imposed by Republican presidents since the 1980s and stipulates that no US funding for global ...
