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January 2008
| Authors: | George J. Annas Wendy K. Mariner Wendy E. Parmet |
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Must Read
The ACLU discusses the need for a public health -- not a law enforcement/national security -- approach to preparing the country for a pandemic.
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September 3, 2007
Daily Analysis
The response to virulent animal diseases is improving, but major outbreaks continue, costing the animal industry millions and increasing fears of a global pandemic.
See more in China, Global Health
August 2007
Essential Documents
National Strategy
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June 26, 2007
Daily Analysis
An Atlanta lawyer’s drug resistant tuberculosis infection highlights the growing prevalence of the disease.
See more in Global Health
April 18, 2007
Testimony
CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Laurie Garrett testifies on the issues facing of maternal and child health, family planning, and reproductive health.
See more in Global Health, Congress
April 12, 2007
| Speakers: | Bruce Gellin, Director, National Vaccine Program Office, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy; Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; Author, "Unprepared for a Pandemic" (Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007) |
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| Presider: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to global public health experts discuss the threat of an avian flu pandemic and steps that can and should be taken to address it.
See more in Global Health
April 12, 2007
| Speakers: | Bruce Gellin, Director, National Vaccine Program Office, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy; Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; Author, "Unprepared for a Pandemic" (Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007) |
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| Presider: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations |
Video
Watch global public health experts discuss the threat of an avian flu pandemic and steps that can and should be taken to address it.
See more in Global Health
April 12, 2007
| Speakers: | Bruce Gellin, Director, National Vaccine Program Office, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Michael Osterholm, Professor, University Of Minnesota's School of Public Health |
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Transcript
Bruce Gellin and Michael Osterholm, with his recent article in Foreign Affairs article, “Unprepared for a Pandemic”, discuss the current state of pandemic influenza given the recent human deaths in Egypt how the virus has reemerged in birds in Asia .
See more in Global Health
April 6, 2007
Must Read
This study tested the association of multiple interventions with reduced disease transmission during the 1918 epidemic.
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March 20, 2007
| Speaker: | Michael T. Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Professor in the School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Michael T. Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, and author of the recent Foreign Affairs article, "Unprepared for a Pandemic", discuss the current threat of the pandemic flu as part of the Council's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
See more in Global Health, Health
Elections (3/22): Israeli politics expert David Makovsky tells cfr.org's Bernard Gwertzman next week's vote will likely bring a coalition goverment to power led by the centrist Kadima Party.
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U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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