Global Health Institute

On June 12, 2018, I attended the NetSci Conference in Paris, France, and presented on my current GHI affiliated research titled, “Defining an Epidemiological Geography of the United States: Influenza as a Case Study” at the Integration of Empirical Data in Network Epidemiology Symposium.

On May 8, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared a new outbreak of Ebola. According to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the new Ebola vaccine, rVSV-ZEBOV, will be used for the first time after being declared 100 percent effective in 2016. Just before the formal declaration of the outbreak, President Trump proposed to rescind $252 million in emergency funds remaining from the original $5.4 billion allocated to fight the disease in 2015.