We are all set for the 3rd Reimagining Global Health course, starting June 8th!
If you are from a low-income country, or are a student, and would like a fee waiver, please contact me
We have 10 free spots!
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CEPI fastbacks three candidate vaccines for Ebola BDV. Two virus vector based candidates and one mRNA vaccine candidate.
Once again it's taken a raging outbreak of a pathogen identified over two decades ago for vaccine development to be accelerated.
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CEPI funding will advance vaccine candidates towards clinical trials as quickly as possible.
One glimmer of hope in the Ebola response:
Within hours of the outbreak in DRC being declared, researchers convened to prepare drug trials.
A lot has changed on that front since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a decade ago. But huge challenges remain 🧪
My story in @science.org (🧵 to come)
It was a pleasure to contribute a chapter, "Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin," on the complex relations of care and unequal relations of exchange that developed at Vilab II in Liberia, for this great volume! Open access is available @ www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
#envhist #medhist
Past outbreaks spawned clever strategies for testing antivirals and antibodies, but researchers will still face major challenges on the ground
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What Paul Farmer told me once:
"People, when they are sick, are not looking to be sprayed, controlled, counselled, told about bush meat...they are looking to survive, and when they see the quality of care is not good, they are going to flee...
Control without care is what amplified Ebola epidemic"
