The Hill: We can curb potential pandemics by investing in prevention tactics Ashley Arabasadi, health security policy adviser at Management Sciences for Health “Along with the Ebola outbreak that’s already infected more than 1,600 people, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is fighting another battle: An epidemic of fear…

Kaiser Family Foundation: Breaking Down the U.S. Global Health Budget by Program Area The U.S. government is the largest donor to global health in the world. This KFF fact sheet breaks down the U.S. global health budget by program area: HIV/PEPFAR; tuberculosis (TB); malaria/the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI); the Global…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Secretary Azar Meets with the Pasteur Institute “[On] May 18, 2019, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participated in a meeting with the Pasteur Institute. … [Officials] discussed the history of the Pasteur Institute and the continued collaboration between the Institute and…

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Secretary Azar Attends G7 Health Ministerial Meeting and Participates in Bilateral Meetings This press release discusses HHS Secretary Alex Azar’s participation in bilateral meetings with health ministers during the G7 Health Ministerial Meeting in Paris and highlights his discussions on vaccines, global health…

USAID: USAID Administrator Mark Green on the launch of the U.S. Global Health Security Strategy In this statement, USAID Administrator Mark Green says, “The increase in the number of infectious diseases outbreaks (e.g., Ebola, Zika, and yellow fever) around the world and the risk posed by an accidental or deliberate…

Press Trust of India/Business Standard: U.S. unveils strategy to detect and respond to health security threats globally “The U.S. government has come up with a first-of-its-kind strategy to prevent, detect, and respond to threats from infectious diseases occurring naturally or accidentally, in an effort to help improve the world’s ability…

Devex: Rory Stewart: What to expect from DFID’s new leader (Edwards, 5/10). Homeland Preparedness News: Scientists combat the use of Ebola as a bioweapon, advance treatments (Adrien, 5/9). Thomson Reuters Foundation: Measles threatens all of Chad as children go unvaccinated (Peyton, 5/9). U.N. News: ‘Abhorrent’ ambulance attack in Libyan capital…

White House: President Donald J. Trump is Protecting the Homeland and the World from Global Health Security Threats This fact sheet provides a summary of the Trump administration’s recently released Global Health Security Strategy, which “defines the actions the Administration will take to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases: Southeast Asia Strategic Multilateral Dialogue on Biosecurity In this online report, Anita Cicero, deputy director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a visiting faculty member at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and colleagues discuss the “Strategic…

Associated Press: U.K. opens inquiry into tainted-blood scandal that killed 2,400 (4/30). Becker’s Hospital Review: Editorial: Vaccine hesitancy threatens ‘historical achievements’ in infectious disease fight (Vaidya, 4/29). Devex: Devexplains: Vaccine hesitancy (Ravelo, 4/30). Devex: Q&A: How local pharmaceutical production can improve access to quality medicines (4/30). Bloomberg News: China Fines…