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Washington Post: Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly “The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by…

The Guardian: U.K. may increase aid to Syrian White Helmets after Trump pulls funding “Britain could increase its funding to the Syrian volunteer rescue group the White Helmets following reports that Donald Trump is [freezing] U.S. support. Theresa May said she would consider plugging the gap, acknowledging the important work…

The Hill: George W. Bush urges ‘moral, practical’ spending on global interests “Former President George W. Bush on Thursday called for ‘moral’ and ‘practical’ spending on global interests, emphasizing the capacity for the U.S. to save lives around the world. … ‘I believe that spending less than two-tenths of one…

Foreign Policy: China Enlists U.N. to Promote Its Belt and Road Project (Lynch, 5/10). The Guardian: Canada sued over years of alleged experimentation on indigenous people (Kassam, 5/11). The Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, U.N. warns (McVeigh, 5/11). IRIN: Afghanistan battles polio:…

The Lancet: Offline: John E. Fogarty and the defeat of Donald J. Trump Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet “If President Trump had had his way, the Fogarty International Center would now be a footnote in history. Targeted for elimination in 2017, the Trump administration viewed the Fogarty mission –…

Bloomberg: Pregnant Rohingya Refugees Are in Desperate Need Andrew Gilmour, assistant secretary general for human rights at the U.N., and Pramila Patten, special representative of the U.N. secretary general on sexual violence in conflict “…The estimated 700,000 Rohingya refugees driven into Bangladesh by Burmese security forces last fall, in what…

STAT: Getting contraceptives for men to the market will take pharma’s help Régine Sitruk-Ware, distinguished scientist at the Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research and co-founder of the International Consortium of Male Contraception “…At a time when more governments are restricting access to female contraception, expanding male contraceptive options could…

News Deeply: Harnessing Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Diets Sir John Beddington, senior adviser to the Oxford Martin School, professor at Oxford University, and co-chair of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition “Public-sector actions alone will not be enough to effect the level of change necessary to…

HuffPost: Why The World Needs Pop-up Vaccine Factories Harris Makatsoris, professor of manufacturing operations in the Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre at Cranfield University “…[T]he global threat from pandemics is growing. … But the core problem remains: how to manufacture vaccines quickly enough, and on a large enough scale, to save…

The Lancet: Time to eradicate HTLV-1: an open letter to WHO Fabiola Martin, Yutaka Tagaya, Robert Gallo, all members of the Global Virus Network’s HTLV-1 Task Force “Human T-cell leukemia virus 1 (HTLV-1) is the most potent carcinogenic oncovirus and potentially the most oncogenic risk factor including chemical carcinogens. ……