The Infectious Disease Frenzy
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Biotech is in the driver’s seat of global health and public health workers and the media know who butters their bread. Each public health worker who goes along... Read more.
Hantavirus, the WHO, and the Conflicts in Weighing Mortality
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As this plays out, public health messaging becomes increasingly incoherent and detached from reality until several cases of hantavirus among tourists on a cruise... Read more.
The Pandemic Agreement Fails Again
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The global health workforce needs to cease its subservience to vested interests and stop blocking progress. We need international health cooperation based on sovereignty,... Read more.
What the IHRP Report Means for America, WHO, and the Future of Global Health
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The choice ahead is straightforward. Governments can treat the pandemic as an anomaly and return to familiar habits—or they can use the hard lessons of Covid-19... Read more.
The Behemoth of Global Corruption Is an Extension of Ourselves
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Once we cut the behemoth down to human size, we can see that nothing is new, and defeating it is not impossible. It will take perseverance, hope, and a reckoning... Read more.
Crunch Time for the WHO
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The polarised debate on the World Health Organization (WHO) has been based more on mud-slinging and all-or-nothing dogma than scientific evidence and empirical data.... Read more.
How to Build a Post-WHO Global Health Architecture
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If policymakers focus on separating normative functions from emergency authority, designing time-bound compacts instead of permanent command structures, and tying... Read more.
Nipah Virus and the New Public Health Order
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A large outbreak of hysteria occurred in the media over the past week, regarding a small Nipah virus outbreak in eastern India. ‘Hysteria’ is the correct word... Read more.
The Importance of Medieval Rats to Pandemic Profit
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We can directly use our resources for the actual burden that remains, and the determinants of good health that freed most of us from them. Unfortunately, such evidence-based... Read more.
Should Argentina Leave the WHO?
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By engaging selectively, aligning with the United States, and preserving the option of withdrawal, Argentina positions itself to influence the future of global health... Read more.
Everyone Lost at ACIP
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ACIP was still erring on the side of Pharma, which they presumably have to due to the sponsored-Congress problem. They may have got it right, they may not. Now the... Read more.
We Need to Do Better Than Another Enlightenment
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We won’t throw off our new and different shackles by romanticizing the oppressive societies in which these masterpieces were born. We had better aim for something... Read more.