CDC’s MMWR Discusses Progress Toward Measles Elimination In Africa May 5, 2017 News Summary CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”: Progress Toward Measles Elimination — African Region, 2013-2016 Balcha G. Masresha of the Immunization and Vaccines Development Program at the WHO’s Regional Office for Africa and colleagues discuss progress toward measles elimination in Africa by 2020, highlighting the efforts made toward and challenges of reaching vaccine…
Global Health Experts Urge G20 To Take On Larger Roles In R&D For Outbreak Preparedness, NTDs, AMR May 5, 2017 News Summary Devex: G20: Can the world’s richest economies innovate for global health? “…As the burden of [neglected tropical, or neglected poverty-related,] diseases shifts, and the threat of pandemics begins to hit home even in the world’s wealthiest countries, advocates are pushing for the health ministers of the G20 — gathering in…
Trump Administration’s Leaked FY18 Budget Document Proposes Eliminating FEWS NET May 5, 2017 News Summary Devex: The world’s famine alarm finds itself on Trump’s chopping block “If ever there was a model of a relied upon, evidence-based early warning system, it would be the Early Warning Famine Systems Network. Since 1985, the United States Agency for International Development’s FEWS NET has provided analysis on acute…
U.S. Unprepared For Disease Outbreaks, Experts, Study Say May 5, 2017 News Summary TIME: The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic “…[E]ven as the scientific and international communities have begun to take the threat of pandemics more seriously, global health experts — including Bill Gates, World Health Organization Director Dr. Margaret Chan, and former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, to name…
WHO DG, West African Officials Praise Guineans, Health Workers, Global Community For Roles In Developing Ebola Vaccine May 5, 2017 News Summary Associated Press: WHO chief praises Guineans for help with Ebola vaccine “The head of the World Health Organization praised Guineans on Thursday for their role in helping to develop a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus, as Guinea’s president said he hoped the vaccine eventually could be produced in Africa.…
Meeting Between Ivanka Trump, Nikki Haley Signals Attempt To Raise Profile Of Global Humanitarian Crises, Ignores State Department Expertise May 5, 2017 News Summary Foreign Policy: Ivanka Trump Wants to Highlight the Humanitarian Crises Her Father Ignores “Ivanka Trump’s White House résumé will soon include famine and the Syrian humanitarian crisis. The first daughter scheduled an unannounced meeting Thursday at the White House with Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to…
WHO Examining Ways To Reduce Global Drug Prices, Improve Access To Treatments May 5, 2017 News Summary Intellectual Property Watch: WHO Members Urged To Support Resolution Delinking Cancer Drug Prices From R&D Costs “A group of civil society organizations and health experts have sent a letter to delegates to this month’s annual World Health Assembly urging support for a study on the delinkage of the costs of…
African Governments Must Invest More In R&D To Reduce Inequalities, Gates Foundation Official Says May 5, 2017 News Summary Devex: Gates Foundation: Africa can tackle inequality via its own research “The Gates Foundation is at the World Economic Forum on Africa to lend its voice to the idea of reducing inequalities and to try to get African governments to invest more in research and development, Ayo Ajayi, the director…
Editorial, Opinion Pieces Examine U.S. Secretary Of State Tillerson’s Speech On, Approach To ‘America First’ Foreign Policy May 5, 2017 News Summary Washington Post: What Rex Tillerson gets right about American values — and what he gets wrong Editorial Board “…[In a speech delivered to the U.S. Department of State on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex] Tillerson was right to point out that the United States must safeguard its national security…
‘Science Speaks’ Examines Global Health-Related Aspects Of FY17 Omnibus Bill May 5, 2017 News Summary Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Funding for global health programs holds steady while biomedical research enjoys funding boost in final FY 2017 spending bill Rabita Aziz, policy research coordinator at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses global health-related aspects of the FY17 omnibus bill, including funding for…