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April 28, 2008
| Author: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health |
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Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Laurie Garrett discusses the confluence of health crises, including bird flu, climate changes and energy and food costs, in Bangladesh.
See more in Bangladesh
April 11, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Five years ago, one could not drive across Lusaka without being slowed by regular funeral processions. No longer, says Michael Gerson.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Health
February 13, 2008
Steven Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Steve Radelet, an expert on African developmental issues, considers the long-term impact of President Bush’s policies toward Africa.
See more in Africa, Foreign Aid
February 12, 2008
| Speakers: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations J. Anthony Holmes, Cyrus Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies on Africa, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor, CFR.org, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Council experts discuss President Bush’s February 2008 trip to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia .
See more in Africa, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 7, 2008
| Speaker: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Laurie Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, examine the current dialogue on containing and curtailing pandemics as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
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.
See more in United States, Defense/Homeland Security, Global Health, Public Health Threats
December 28, 2007
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Daily Analysis
President Bush’s AIDS program in Africa is up for renewal. A number of health experts applaud some of its results but want to end the focus on abstinence.
See more in Africa, Global Health, Foreign Aid
November 30, 2007
Laurie Garrett, CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health interviewed by Toni Johnson, Staff Writer
Interview
On the annual occasion of World AIDS day, CFR health expert Laurie Garrett points to problems in tracking and addressing the disease.
See more in Haiti, Global Health
October 24, 2007
Podcast
Jordan Kassalow, former CFR fellow for global health policy, says the problem of untreated impaired vision in the developing world is “huge,” and if this simple probem cannot be addressed, it does not bode well for more complex health issues such as HIV/AIDS.
See more in International Organizations, Health, Science, and Technology, Poverty
October 21, 2007
| Author: | Anderson Cooper |
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Must Read
Anderson Cooper reports on a nutritional breakthrough.
See more in Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Health, Science, and Technology
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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Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
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.
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.
Complete list of CFR Books.
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