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The Changing Landscape of Global Health Diplomacy

(CSIS) In late 2012, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center organized a working group to analyze the opportunities for global health diplomacy in Barack Obama’s second term. This volume presents those analyses. Taken together, the studies show that the world of global health diplomacy is quite dynamic at the moment, with new partners setting trends  Read More »

The Last, Best Chance for Global Polio Eradication?

(CSIS) After 25 years of remarkable achievements and sometimes harrowing setbacks, a successful conclusion to global polio eradication could finally be within reach. In late April, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi released the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a promising new six-year strategy to win the polio “endgame.”

Immune Response to New Coronavirus Unveils Possible Paths to Treatments

(GlobalBiodefense) University of Washington scientists used lab-grown human lung cells to study cell response to infection by a novel human coronavirus (nCoV) and compiled information about which genes are significantly disrupted in early and late stages of infection.

USAMRIID Seeks Antibody Production for Infectious Disease Studies

(GlobalBiodefense) The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is soliciting quotes for the production of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to be used in nonhuman primate (NHP) therapeutic testing against infectious agents.

Agroterrorism – the new threat to food security

(LloydsList) Food security is increasingly becoming an oxymoron in many parts of the world. From last year’s droughts which decimated US crops to the recent European horsemeat scandal, the ability to produce enough food for the world is once again under the spotlight.

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