Category: Global Health Seminars
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Informing Influenza Response – Data Visualization and Decision Support for CDC
During infectious disease outbreaks, public health officials need to know where disease is spreading, its population impact, and its effect on healthcare systems that inform…
March 15, 2019
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Intersections Between the Global Health Security Agenda and National Public Health Institutes
Public health activities can be fragmented with responsibility spread across multiple entities, either within the Ministry of Health (MOH) or across multiple entities outside of…
February 19, 2019
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Technologies for Responding to Pandemics
For sixty years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the Department of Defense has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in…
November 16, 2018
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One Health in the Twenty-First Century
The recognition that human, animal, and ecological health are inextricably linked has led to important developments in global health education, research, and practice. A One…
October 10, 2018
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Capacity-Building Experiences in Guinea Following the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
In late 2013, an Ebola outbreak began in rural Guinea before quickly spreading to the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia. By the time the epidemic ended in 2016,…
September 14, 2018
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CDC and Global Health Protection in an Interconnected World
Today’s world of increasing interconnectivity and mobility accelerates the shared global risk to human health and well-being; a pathogen from a remote village can reach major…
March 23, 2018
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Preparing for Pandemics: Technology for Real-Time Response
As demonstrated by this year’s flu season, even a moderately higher than expected increase in seasonal flu cases can strain a health system. Should a pandemic event in the…
March 16, 2018
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Biosafety: Applications for Global Health Security
First introduced in the 1980s, the principles of biosafety have emerged as steadfast components of global health security discussions. The fundamentals of biosafety—sound…
January 19, 2018
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The Role of the World Bank in Advancing Global Health Security
Following the recent Zika and Ebola outbreaks, the World Bank Group (WBG) established the International Working Group on Financing Preparedness, which found that despite progress…
November 17, 2017
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Lessons learned from the Ebola and Zika Outbreaks
Next year will mark the centenary of the 1918 Spanish influenza, one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history. Although infectious disease experts believe that, on average,…
October 13, 2017