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September 9, 2020

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
COVID-19 Update With Dr. Tom Frieden

Dr. Tom Frieden, senior fellow for global health at CFR and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provides an assessment of the current status of the COVID-19 pande…

Play A lab at Methodist Dallas Medical Center prepares viral transport media for samples before collecting samples for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dallas, Texas.

July 18, 2019

Health
Trade, Traffic, and the Future of the International Health Regulations

BOLLYKY: Great. Well, let’s get started. I think I actually know most people in the room. But good afternoon. I’m Tom Bollyky. I direct the Global Health Program here at the Council. It is my grea…

[10:08 AM] Diana Schoder      A health worker disinfects an ambulance transporting a suspected Ebola patient to the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatment center in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Baz Ratner/Reuters [Ebola Health Worker.jpg] (https://councilforeignrelations-my.sharepoint.com/personal/dschoder_cfr_org/Documents/Documents/Events/IHR Ebola/Ebola Health Worker.jpg)

February 26, 2019

Religion
The Rise of Global Anti-Semitism

Panelists discuss modern anti-Semitism and the influences behind the recent increase in anti-Semitic activity in both the United States and around the world.

Play The Rise of Global Anti-Semitism

May 31, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Why Identity Matters: Legal Barriers to Women's Economic Empowerment

Around the world discriminatory citizenship and identification laws hinder women’s ability to fully participate in and contribute to economies. The majority of the estimated 2.4 billion people who la…

Podcast A woman in Iran holds her identification in front of her face after voting March 2, 2012.

September 29, 2016

Global
Ready or Not: Medical Countermeasures for Pandemics

Steve Davis, president and CEO of PATH, and Richard Hatchett, acting director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) discuss spurring the development and delivery of me…