Gideon
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
A single night in a Hong Kong hotel sparked a global SARS outbreak in 2003, forever changing how we view disease transmission. Today’s aviation networks can transport infectious diseases worldwide within 36 hours, creating unprecedented challenges for global health security.
BU School of Public Health Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
The premise is “very encouraging,” says Idowu, who aspires to use her training in program management and global health to strategize with healthcare leaders, decision-makers, and providers to support holistic wellbeing, a vision of wellbeing that encompasses not only physical and mental health, but also spiritual and relational health.
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Gideon
AUGUST 16, 2024
The most unusual disease outbreak of mpox occurred in 2003 when 81 humans in the American Midwest were infected through contact with infected prairie dogs – themselves infected by rodents imported from Ghana. Public Health, vol. Fortunately, all patients recovered and did not face longer-term effects of the infection.
HEALTHBEAT
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
My experience with infectious disease control abroad In 2003, I moved with my family from the CDCs headquarters in Atlanta to Bangkok, Thailand to serve as the first CDC regional adviser to Southeast Asia for tuberculosis control. Since its inception, PEPFAR has, in fact, saved over 25 million lives through ART, prevented HIV infections in 5.5
The Health Care Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Slowly policy leaders were awakening to the global nature of the threat. Bush administration in 2003 created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEP FAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). But as Ebola and SARS arrived in the early days of the new millennium, the scientific community in the U.S. The George W.
The Hill
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates in an interview Wednesday said he hopes President Trump sees the value in preserving the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, which has saved more than 25 million lives since it launched in 2003.
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