What We’re Reading
From Our March 2025 Connections Newsletter
The Diseases Are Coming [The Atlantic]
Health Workers Navigate Climate Change in the Bolivian Amazon [Think Global Health]
- Daily Updates on USG Policy Shifts [Bay Area Global Health Alliance]
- “Stop Looking North, Look to the World.” Can We Imagine Global Health Without the USA at Its Centre? [PLOS]
- US Foreign Aid Has Collapsed. How Should Philanthropy Respond? [Devex Pro]
- Global Health Is at a Crossroads: Let’s Be Bold & Aspirational [Health Policy Watch]
- How Accurate Are Donald Trump’s Claims About Wasteful Aid? [Devex Pro]
- FDA Cancels Pivotal Advisory Meeting About Next Season’s Flu Vaccine [ABC]
- HHS Overturns 54-Year-Old Public Comment Rule [Healthcare Brew]
- China Eyes Opportunities as US Scales Back Humanitarian Aid [Christian Science Monitor]
- UK Will Slash Billions in Aid Spending to Fund Larger Military [Devex]
- Humanitarian Aid’s Extreme Donor Dependency Problem in Five Charts [The New Humanitarian]
- Trump Casts Psychiatric & Weight-Loss Drugs as Threats to Children [Washington Post]
- US Drug Overdose Deaths Drop to Lowest Levels Since June 2020, CDC Data Shows [Reuters]
- Citing Government Overreach, Louisiana Won’t Promote Vaccination, Surgeons General Say [CIDRAP]
- Covid’s Legacy: Public Health’s Diminished Power [Axios]
- Tens of Thousands Go Hungry in Sudan After Trump Aid Freeze [Agence France-Press]
- ‘Disruptive, Unfair & Cruel’: Jobs Lost & Treatment Stopped as USAID Freeze Hits HIV Care in Zimbabwe [The Guardian]
- Global Fund Launches $18B Replenishment in Tough Fundraising Landscape [Devex]
- Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign to Continue in the Gaza Strip [United Nations]
- Second Cluster Reported in Uganda’s Ebola Sudan Outbreak [CIDRAP]
- Ghana on US Aid Cuts: ‘As Bridges Are Burning, New Bridges Are Formed’ [Devex]
- Thousands “Stand up for Science” Across the Country [Mother Jones]
- H5N1 Demands Coordination, Not Confusion [Think Global Health]
- Updated Bird Flu Vaccine for Poultry Gets License [Axios]
- Can Avian Flu Spread via the Wind? Can’t Be Ruled Out, Experts Say [CIDRAP]
- The Erasing of American Science [The Atlantic]
- More Than Half of Adults Worldwide Will Be Overweight or Obese by 2050 [The Guardian]
- Microplastics Contribute to Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance, Study Finds [CIDRAP]
- Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. [ProPublica]
- NIH. Research Grants Lag $1B Behind Last Year’s [New York Times]
- AI Failed to Detect Critical Health Conditions: Study [Axios]
- Opinion I Why Latin America Needs Its Own CDC — Now More Than Ever [Global Health NOW]
- NCDs to Overtake Infectious Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 [The Nation Africa]
- No Disease Is Deadlier in Africa Than Malaria. Trump’s US Aid Cuts Weaken the Fight Against It [AP News]
- Why the Good News About the Mpox Outbreak of 2025 Isn’t Really Good After All [NPR]
- New Mutant Mpox Strain Discovered in the DRC [The Telegraph]
- Congo Faces Setback in Mpox Response After Rwanda-Backed Rebels Advance in the East [AP News]
- The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Freeze & Global Health: The Biggest Gaps Left on the Donor Landscape [KFF]
- African Hospital Staff Laid off en Masse Amid Trump Aid Freeze [The Telegraph]
- Huge Risk of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Wake of Abrupt US Funding Cuts [Health Policy Watch]
- ‘Playing With Fire’: DRC Could Become Disease Transmission Hotspot Following US Aid Freeze & Conflict [Health Policy Watch]
- Wastewater Sampling Could Be Key to Early Warning of New Disease Outbreaks [The Guardian]
- Rwanda’s Marburg Success Underscores One Health Collaboration, A Sticking Point in Pandemic Treaty Talks [Think Global Health]
- HKU5-COV-2, the New Bat Coronavirus in China Sparks Global Concern [Economic Times]
- Climate Change, Vaccine Hesitancy & Vector-Borne Diseases Are Driving Encephalitis [Health Policy Watch]
- Saudi Arabia Confirms $500M Commitment to Polio Eradication Effort, WHO Says [Reuters]
- Gaza’s Health System Is “Completely Eviscerated” — What Happens Now? [BMJ]
- A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response. [Wired]
- CDC Says It Is Monitoring Mysterious Deadly Disease in Congo [ABC News]
- Expanding Measles Outbreak in the United States & Guidance for the Upcoming Travel Season [CDC]
- Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet & Health, Citing Fringe Theories [New York Times]
- Where US Measles Outbreaks Are Spreading [New York Times]
- Why Health Experts Fear the West Texas Measles Outbreak May Be Much Larger Than Reported [STAT]