"Pathogens don’t respect borders." Experts are split on whether the world is ready for another pandemic: 'Global threats ...

Six years ago, the Director-General of the World Health Organization sounded the highest global alarm available under ...

Pandemic preparedness in fragile and conflict-affected states is shaped less by technical deficits than by enduring political, institutional, and security constraints. Protracted conflict, chronic ...

Last week’s unsettling news that U.S. President Donald J. Trump, his wife, and multiple White House staff members had contracted the novel coronavirus underscores that this pandemic is far from over.

Robert Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Ana Sofia Santiago-Russe is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The ...

I read with great interest the recently published Module 1 of the United Kingdom government’s “UK Covid-19 Inquiry”. This is the first in a series of modules assessing the U.K’s response to the ...

During a visit to the border region between Colombia and Venezuela in 2021, a member of Prof. Jan Felix Drexler's team demonstrates how to perform a rapid antigen test. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed ...

Ordinary shopping trips became a scavenger hunt five years ago. Shoppers who felt fortunate enough to find toilet paper quickly filled their carts. Demand soared for items such as masks, lumber, ...

This workshop series from the Forum on Microbial Threats assessed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a whole host of societal sectors. Speakers and panelists from around the world discussed key ...

How COVID-19 exposed healthcare data gaps and why real-time data integration is now critical for saving lives.

As part of covering health for the Southeast Missourian, I regularly check in with Autumn Grim, the director of the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. We talk about health issues on the ...