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Equitable Access to Pandemic Products Demands Stronger Public Governance
In an article published in the Lancet, the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics's Matthew Kavanagh discusses how the slow arrival of vaccines to countries ravaged by mpox shows that the COVID-19 pandemic did not result in the structural change needed to address global inequities.
Mapping China's Health Assistance Projects Overseas
The Department of Global Health's Jennifer Bouey led a team at RAND Corporation to publish an interactive web tool that helps policymakers and practitioners easily find China's health projects around the world.
Non-Retrogression as Progress: Protecting the Right to Health Against Private Economic Interests in Uruguay and Ecuador
The Health and Human Rights Initiative's Valentina Castagnari Aznar and Silvia Serrano Guzmá published an article in Verfassungsblog reflecting on the fragility of legal interventions that threaten powerful economic interests.
Factors Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake Among Populations in the West Department of Haiti
Researchers in the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact published this paper in PLOS Global Health to evaluate population characteristics related to vaccine uptake to inform future interventions and inform strategies to safeguard against future global health security threats.
Achieving Equity in the Diagnosis of Black Men’s Distress and Depression
The Department of Global Health's Shabab Wahid was awarded a grant with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to study and refine how we understand, diagnose, and treat Black men in need of mental health services.
Core Components of Infectious Disease Outbreak Response
In an article published in SSM - Health Systems, researchers at the Center for Global Health Science and Security share findings that point to a nearly-universal set of outbreak response activities that could be directly incorporated into national and international response plans.
H5 Influenza Vaccines—Moving Forward Against Pandemic Threats
In this article published by JAMA, the Center on Medical Product Access, Safety and Stewardship's Jesse L. Goodman discusses concerns about pandemic influenza as the H5N1 viruses spread across species and continents.
When Climate Displaces a Way of Life: The Uncounted Toll on Mental Health on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Undergraduate student Ben Oestericher (SFS’25), Assistant Professor Shabab Wahid, and Professor Emily Mendenhall, in collaboration with Edna N. Bosire at Aga Khan University, write about their two-month exploratory study of climate change and mental health in Kilifi County, Kenya.
Preparing for the Next Pandemic — Expanding and Coordinating Global Regulatory Capacity
The Center for Transformational Health Law's Sam Halabi and Georgetown medical student George O'Hara make the case for bolstering the capacity of national regulatory bodies to help achieve equitable access to essential medicines in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine.