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Using Vaccine Diplomacy to Address Supply Chain Woes
In this year of crises, the plight of the Ever Given was, without doubt, the most absurd. While attempting to cross the Suez Canal during...
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Oct 30, 20215 min read


A Dose of Diplomacy: How Cuba’s vaccine generosity is a symbol of its altruistic medical inter
Cuban patriot leader José Martí declared during Cuba’s final War of Independence (1895-1898) that the battle was “the revolution of the...
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May 28, 20215 min read


A Generic Solution: Suspension of patent rights for Covid-19 vaccines could save countless lives
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical...
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Apr 5, 20215 min read


The Emergence of Vaccine Diplomacy: Indian & Chinese Politicization of the Pandemic
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, pleaded for an international...
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Mar 18, 20215 min read


Vaccines, Variants, and (Eventual) Victory: An Interview with Ashish Jha
Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH, is the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. Before arriving at Brown last September, he served...
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Jan 29, 20217 min read


A Case for Listening to Anti-Vaxxers
Climate change deniers, flat-earthers, and anti-vaxxers sit around the same table when it comes to rejecting science in favor of...
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May 22, 20205 min read


Fear as Motivation and the Zika Problem
Zika has entered the American consciousness in much the same way Ebola did: with a melodramatic flourish and a twinge of impish paranoia....
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Mar 1, 20165 min read


Shots Not Fired
A family weekend at Disneyland costs less than getting your children vaccinated — unless, of course, they come down with the measles....
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Mar 14, 20157 min read


A Drug Deferred
While West Africa faces the ravages of Ebola, potential vaccines developed a decade ago are being exhumed from what Dr. James E. Crowe...
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Dec 3, 201412 min read


Preventing Prevention: Vaccines in the Century of Choice
This year, the first vaccines licensed in the United States, those for rabies and typhoid, celebrated their centennial. The better half...
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Nov 25, 20147 min read
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