In an increasingly globalized world, pathogens travel faster than ever before. Commercial aviation connects remote villages to major metropolitan hubs in less than a day. Supply chains stretch across continents. Climate change is expanding the geographic range of disease-carrying animals and insects. Against this backdrop, the decision by the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) is not merely short-sighted, it is strategically misguided and frankly dangerous.
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Global health security and WHO: Why U.S. withdrawal is dangerous
American medical schools and universities once led the world in biomedical discovery, in large part due to federal funding. Public investment in science helped eradicate polio, unlock the human genome, and develop life-saving treatments for diseases once considered death sentences. But that era of reliable federal funding is ending under the current White House administration – and America’s research enterprise is at risk of going with it.
Over the past decade, …
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Universities must tap endowments to sustain biomedical research
The recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has brought immense attention to the future of the Supreme Court with the scrutinized nomination of Amy Barrett amid the COVID-19 pandemic and upcoming presidential election. As an oncologist and public health physician, however, I cannot help but to focus on the medical causes of her death rather than the political consequences and see a stark contrast in her passing from cancer …
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chadwick Boseman: a tale of two cancers in America
