World Bank: Epidemic Preparedness and Response (10/12). World Economic Forum: 5 urgent actions to stop future pandemics crushing the global economy Harry Kretchmer, senior writer for Formative Content (10/12). World Politics Review: The Time to Start Preparing for the Next Pandemic Is Now Stewart M. Patrick, James H. Binger senior…

BMJ Global Health: The value proposition of the Global Health Security Index Sanjana J. Ravi, senior analyst at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and colleagues discuss how the Global Health Security Index (GHS Index), a comprehensive assessment of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries, “can help…

Center for Global Development: Mortality Data in COVID-19 and Beyond: The Bedrock of Global Health Security Amanda Glassman, executive vice president of CGD, CEO of CGD Europe, and senior fellow at CGD, and Eleni Smitham, research assistant at CGD (10/6). BMJ Opinion: If the U.K. wants to lead in global…

The Telegraph: Health security must take a bigger place on global agenda, says former WHO chief “Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland served three terms as prime minister of Norway and was director general (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003 when the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) pandemic emerged…

AP: Uganda reports blood shortages amid coronavirus pandemic (Muhumuza/Onen, 10/5). Bloomberg: J&J CEO Gorsky Says Covid Shows Need for Global Health Security (Griffin, 10/2). BMJ: Covid-19: 120 million rapid tests pledged to low and middle income countries (Mahase, 10/2). Financial Times: With 1m dead, are we any better at treating…

USAID: USAID Announces New $100 Million Project to Anticipate Threats Posed by Emerging Infectious Diseases “[On Wednesday], the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched Strategies to Prevent Spillover (STOP Spillover) a five-year, $100 million project to anticipate and address threats posed by the emerging zoonotic diseases that pose…

USAID: U.S. Government Releases Its Annual Report on the Progress and Impact of Its Investments in the Global Health Security Agenda “[Tuesday], the United States Government released, ‘Strengthening Health Security Across the Globe: Progress and Impact of U.S. Government Investments in the Global Health Security Agenda.’ This whole-of-Government report demonstrates…

BMJ Opinion: Gregg Gonsalves: Covid-19 in the U.S. — the new disease denialism Gregg Gonsalves, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Public Health Modeling Unit and Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health (9/14). Georgetown University Medical Center: Georgetown Global Health Center Issues Pandemic Preparedness…

USA TODAY: Fact check: White House didn’t fire pandemic response unit when it was disbanded in 2018 “…In May 2018, former national security adviser John Bolton restructured Trump’s National Security Council [NSC] and disbanded the global health unit. Its former head, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, resigned from the administration and…

Bloomberg: Latin America’s Teachers Are Pandemic’s Unsung Heroes Mac Margolis, Bloomberg Opinion columnist (9/9). Financial Times: What the campaign to eradicate polio tells us about Covid-19 David Pilling, Africa editor at the Financial Times (9/9). New York Times: Mr. Trump Knew It Was Deadly and Airborne Editorial Board (9/9). Wall…