A Congolese health official administers an mpox vaccination at a hospital in Goma, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo in October 2024. (Reuters) |
For the second time in two years, the World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency of international concern in response to a surge of mpox cases. Two months ago, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it needed 10,000,000 vaccine doses by 2025 to respond to the multi-country outbreak, but it has only received 275,000 to date. To follow which countries and companies have pledged doses and which nations will and have received them, CFR’s Chloe Searchinger and Allison Krugman have launched a new tracker of mpox vaccine donations. Monitor the international mpox response
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Yanzhong Huang, Marcel Arsenault |
Packets of fentanyl and methamphetamine seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection are on display during a news conference at the Port of Nogales, Arizona. (Reuters) |
Deaths from fentanyl in the United States now exceed those from car accidents and gun violence. The United States claims that China is to blame, while China attributes the crisis to U.S. domestic problems. In Foreign Policy, Senior Fellow Yanzhong Huang and founder and CEO of PAX sapiens Marcel Arsenault examine the perception gaps hindering bilateral U.S.-China counternarcotics cooperation. Read the article
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Thomas J. Bollyky and Michael Bang Petersen |
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health Anthony Fauci testifies about coronavirus preparedness and response to the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s best-selling memoir On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service chronicles his thirty-eight year leadership of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a period bookended by two defining global health crises: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. For the Lancet, Senior Fellow Thomas J. Bollyky reviews Fauci’s memoir, which he calls “an insider’s view on the rise and fall of an era of global health.” Read the review
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U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order, as Vice President Kamala Harris stands by in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) |
Millions of Americans watched President Joe Biden pass the torch to nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention in July. In Think Global Health, CFR Senior Fellow David P. Fidler reflects on Biden’s legacy on global health, writing that the administration’s record “has raised questions about what U.S. global health engagement means for a divided nation in a fragmented world.” Geopolitics and domestic polarization, he argues, have stymied efforts to reclaim U.S. global health leadership. Read the piece
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken bids farewell to Pediatric AIDS Foundation ambassador Elizabeth Glazer after his remarks at a World AIDS Day event. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) |
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With the U.S. presidential election fast approaching, Emily Bass has written a three-part investigative series for Think Global Health on the uncertain future of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and how the United States’ most successful global health foreign aid initiative reached its current state. Read the series
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Thomas J. Bollyky and Vivek H. Murthy |
Senior Fellow Thomas J. Bollyky and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy lead a conversation at CFR in Washington. (CFR) |
In September, CFR hosted Murthy to discuss his role as the nation’s doctor and his reasons for highlighting loneliness and youth mental health as U.S. public health crises. Bollyky presided over the event. Watch on CFR.org |
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