What We’re Reading
From Our February 2025 Connections Newsletter
A “Defining Moment” for Global Health Funding [Think Global Health]
- Latest Update on USG Policy Shifts [Bay Area Global Health Alliance]
- ‘Terrifying’: Public Health Experts React to Senate’s Confirmation of RFK Jr. to Lead HHS [Time]
- Trump Makes RFK Jr. Leader of Presidential ‘MAHA’ Commission to Study Chronic Disease [STAT]
- UN Sketches Global Map of Mayhem from US Aid Freeze [Devex]
- Unraveling Progress: The US Exit from the WHO & Its Global Consequences [Health Affairs]
- US Aid Pause Hampers Response to Multiple African Disease Outbreaks & Escalating DRC Conflict[Health Policy Watch]
- Trump Names One Health Expert to Lead Pandemic Response Office [CIDRAP]
- Pandemic Responses Should Not Rely on Border Closures [Think Global Health]
- Crucial WHO Health Emergency Response Faces Budget Cut of 25% [Health Policy Watch]
- Can the US Replace the World Health Organization? [Devex]
- Members of US Congress Urge Trump to Reconsider WHO Withdrawal [Devex]
- US Actions Have Serious Impact on Global Health, WHO Chief Says [Reuters]
- Argentina Withdraws from WHO [Health Policy Watch]
- As Officials Prepare for WHO-Led Flu Vaccine Meeting, Many Wonder: Will the US Show? [STAT]
- Young Researchers Mobilize to Protest Trump Administration’s Science Policies [STAT]
- Opinion I Public Health Is Under Assault. Here’s How Doctors Can Fight Back. [MedPage Today]
- Opinion I Former Surgeon General: America Needs a Better Discourse on DEI [STAT]
- UN Calls to Reopen Goma Airport ‘Lifeline’, as Crisis Deepens [United Nations]
- Opinion I Who Is Protecting Americans from Marburg Right Now? [STAT]
- Myanmar Refugees Face Sudden Discharge from Thai Hospitals Shuttered by US Aid Freeze [Reuters]
- US CDC Sends Health Alert on Uganda’s Ebola Outbreak [Reuters]
- WHO Releases $2M to Support Uganda’s Ebola Outbreak Response [US News]
- Ebola Cases in Uganda Rise to 9, While 265 Others Are Being Monitored Under Quarantine [STAT]
- Clinical Trial for Sudan Strain Ebola Vaccine Begins in Uganda [Africanews]
- Bolivia Confirms Death from Ebola-Like Virus So Rare Only 15 Cases Have Ever Been Reported [The Telegraph]
- This Is What Happens to the Body When HIV Drugs Are Stopped for Millions of People [AP]
- After Abortion Bans, Infant Mortality & Births Increased, Research Finds [New York Times]
- Racial Gap Widened in Deaths Among US Moms Around the Time of Childbirth [AP]
- ‘Unprecedented’ TB Outbreak Recorded in Kansas with Nearly 70 Cases Reported [Independent]
- Measles Cases Are Rising in the US as Texas Outbreak Spreads [USA Today]
- Resourcing Climate & Health Priorities: A Mapping of International Finance Flows from 2018–2022 [Rockefeller Foundation]
- What to Know About Journavx, the Non-Opioid Pain Medication Just Approved by the FDA [US News]
- Jab Could Give Lifelong Protection Against Virus That Inspired ‘Contagion’ Film, Scientists Say [The Telegraph]
- Patient Zero: How One Doctor Helped Uncover the Origin of the DRC’s Mpox Outbreak [The Telegraph]
- Oyster Blood May Provide a Powerful Weapon Against Antibiotic Resistance [Discover Magazine]
- Flies in Hospital Wards May Be Spreading Drug-Resistant Bacteria to Patients [The Guardian]
- CIA Report Reignites Covid-19 Origins Debate — But China’s Refusal to Share Evidence Stymies Any Conclusion [Health Policy Watch]
- Why Are So Many Indigenous Panamanians Contracting HIV — and Dying of AIDS? [NPR]
- AI Monitors Help Uganda Tackle Air Pollution Crisis [Sci Dev Net]
- Cash as Medicine: How Brazil Slashed TB by Tackling Poverty [The Telegraph]
- Inside the Rebel Hospitals Keeping Myanmar’s Revolution Alive [The Telegraph]