Global Health Security
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URC Honored with ISOA Vanguard Award for Increasing Health Care Access in Mali
URC’s successful implementation of USAID’s Keneya Nieta Activity in Mali under volatile security conditions was recognized by the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) with the Vanguard Award, a part of the organization’s Global Impact Awards. The award recognizes companies with overall outstanding…
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H5N1 Is Back and We Need To Act Like It’s 2005
Avian Influenza is back, and the world largely is yawning, but we should be alarmed. This highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus was first reported in Hong Kong in 1997. As an avian virus, it is highly transmittable among poultry and lethal:…
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Can Systems Thinking Contribute to Innovation in Global Health Security?
I recently returned from the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITM) in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by the Faculty of Tropical Medicine of the University of Mahidol, where the theme was “Achieving the SDGs: Human and AI-driven Solutions for Tropical Medicine in a…
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Opinion: Monkeypox and Global Health Security — Will We Ever Learn?
The following excerpt is taken from an article on Devex that was posted on August 30, 2022. The unprecedented spread of monkeypox, following the COVID-19 pandemic, underscores how ill-prepared the world continues to be for emerging microbial threats. It seems we just can’t learn…
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