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Event: The American Pandemic Preparedness Plan: One Year of Progress & The Path Forward
In this webinar, Dr. Matthew Hepburn and Dr. Carly S. Cox will discuss the 2022 Annual Report on the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, which was released on September 1st
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Beccera to Give Preparedness and Response its Own Division
ASPR’s new elevated role would make it the lead agency for internal hiring, as well as deploying and working with the industrial base via purchasing contracts to prepare for strong responses to future infectious disease outbreaks.
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Within the Health, Climate, and Security Nexus, Prevention is Better than a Cure
By Kelly Bridges During the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, healthcare workers were contracting Ebola at an alarming rate. The World Health Organization (WHO) found that those fighting Ebola at the frontlines–in clinics and hospitals–were up to 32 times more likely to contract the disease than the rest of the population. Among the principal…
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Climate Change and Health Featuring CSR’s Andrea Rezzonico
On October 18, Andrea Rezzonico, Deputy to the CEO and Deputy Director of the Converging Risks Lab, was featured on the Jacobs Sparks Podcast alongside Dr. Nino Kharaishvili, Global Solutions Director of Health Systems Governance at Jacobs. In the interview, Andrea and Dr. Kharaishvili discusses the intersection of climate change and global health issues, including:…
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Lessons from Japan on Battling COVID-19: A CSR Podcast Episode
Podcast: Download (653.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS | MoreBy Christine Parthemore The United States has now tragically reached more than 210,000 people killed by COVID-19. These victims are among more than 7 million infected—including the President, many from the White House staff and Congress, and military leadership. Just…
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Redefining Critical Infrastructure and Essential Workers
By Bishop Garrison As the country continues to deal with the fallout brought on by the coronavirus, missteps in early high-level decision-making and failure to heed the persistent warnings of our government’s experts about the need to better prepare for biological threats are creating a deficit of trust in the federal government to protect Americans.…
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The Geopolitics of COVID-19 and Climate Change
By Shiloh Fetzek The Stockholm Environment Institute and Mistra Geopolitics hosted a webinar on the Geopolitics of COVID-19 and Climate Change on 3 April. It covered how the ongoing crisis might impact climate ambition in the near term, whether or not global cooperation around the Covid response might increase resilience and counteract trends toward nationalism…