The newest issue of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (@globalenvironment.bsky.social) is guest edited by PhD candidate Lijuan Klassen & RCC Director Christof Mauch!
It brings an environmental humanities perspective to planetary health: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/current
#envhist #envhum
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society
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)
www.science.org
Past outbreaks spawned clever strategies for testing antivirals and antibodies, but researchers will still face major challenges on the ground
A brilliant new study of the history of rats and plague by @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social focused on the historically neglected case of the third plague pandemic's impact on Mauritius: "Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure" (OA) www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
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.
cepi.net/cepi-fast-tr...
Moving tribute to my Columbia colleague David Rosner, who passed away unexpectedly a few days ago. David was pivotal to uncovering the dangers of lead, silica, and many products of industrial America.
blanphear.substack.com/p/how-rosner...
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...
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CEPI funding will advance vaccine candidates towards clinical trials as quickly as possible.
cepi.net
How two historians helped reveal the industrial origins of modern disease
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!
www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
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"
“the only durable answer is to invest in African institutions themselves: frontline surveillance, outbreak response, and local
manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics,
and protective equipment”
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