Don Oberdorfer, an expert on the two Koreas, says the recent street protests ostensibly against the import of U.S. beef are much more political protests against the new conservative government in Seoul.

As China rebuilds from the great quake, a changed country is emerging with some surprising winners and losers.

Harvey Fineberg, who now runs the Institute of Medicine, was commissioned to analyze the 1976 Swine Flu Fiasco. This article summarizes his warnings regarding mistakes that ought not to be repeated.

The ACLU discusses the need for a public health -- not a law enforcement/national security -- approach to preparing the country for a pandemic.

The response to virulent animal diseases is improving, but major outbreaks continue, costing the animal industry millions and increasing fears of a global pandemic.

An Atlanta lawyer’s drug resistant tuberculosis infection highlights the growing prevalence of the disease.

CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Laurie Garrett testifies on the issues facing of maternal and child health, family planning, and reproductive health.

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.

Watch global public health experts discuss the threat of an avian flu pandemic and steps that can and should be taken to address it.

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 . 

This study tested the association of multiple interventions with reduced disease transmission during the 1918 epidemic.

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 CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.

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This report from the United States Institute of Peace and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) Task Force on Public Health and Conflict details the results of a symposium on the implications of the North Korean famine of the mid-1990s.

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services document providing guidance in the event of an outbreak of pandemic influenza.

As avian flu continues its global—and westward—spread, experts say the world remains unprepared for a possible pandemic.

A discussion of Garrett’s newest Foreign Affairs article:

A flood of public and private money has started to flow to the developing world, funding a vast array of efforts to combat AIDS, TB, malaria, and other killer diseases. Unfortunately, writes Garrett, much of that “is leaking away without result,” doing little to improve basic public health on the ground.