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August 19, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
Ebola: What Happened

With a rapidly growing and urbanizing population, persistent poverty, and weak governance, Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to be the source of new epidemics that potentially could spread around the worl…

ebola

September 24, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Is the International Response to Ebola Enough?

The Centers for Disease Control has modeled the possible spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (It did not address Ebola in Guinea.) Based on its computer models, it concludes that the range o…

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March 20, 2017

International Organizations
Trump 2018 Budget Proposal: What We Know (And Don’t Know)

The following is a guest post by Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The following information is compiled by Laurie and her research associate Gabrie…

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July 14, 2016

Health
Podcast: The Next Director-General of the World Health Organization

The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The term of the current director-general of the World Health Organ…

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan leaves the podium after her speech at the sixty-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23, 2016.

October 28, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Charting Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

  Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks, Global Health Program, CFR   My CFR colleague Laurie Garrett and her Global Health program have produced a fascinating, interactive map that shows vacc…

Charting Vaccine-Preventable Diseases