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How ‘outbreak culture’ can hinder infection control
Photo: UN Development Programme via Flickr As health officials in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo race to stop the spread of Ebola, one of many factors that could hinder their...
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Assessing infectious disease risks and impact of social media
Photo: DFID-UK Department for International Development via Wikimedia During an infectious disease outbreak, how does a journalist provide accurate information about risks to the public as the event is...
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Increasing infectious disease outbreaks highlight need for public health...
Deadly infectious disease outbreaks are occurring more often around the world. Influenza virus circulated in the southern hemisphere and then spread to the U.S., killing about 80,000 people during this...
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Media played helpful role in communicating risks during Zika outbreak
Photo: CDCAedes aegypti The news media, for the most part, played a helpful role in communicating the known health risks of the Zika virus to the public during the 2015-16 outbreak, in comparison to...
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Imperative for covering climate change as health issue
The rising temperature of the earth – climate change – is already causing serious challenges to people’s health, from worsening heart disease and asthma to increasing risks of emerging infectious...
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Ebola research continues in U.S. as violence inhibits treatment efforts in...
CDC/ John Saindon Recent violent attacks on Medicines San Frontieres (MSF) Ebola treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo raise the prospect that the outbreak could grow even larger and...
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Using narrative to link climate change to changes in global health
Satellite view of South Africa. The threat of emerging infectious diseases is expanding as climate change is altering the range of animals, people and the pathogens that they carry. Warmer and wetter...
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Advice from a journalist covering global health
Photo: Dan Blah via Flickr Amy Maxmen, a San-Francisco-based science reporter for Nature magazine, travels the world to cover global health topics. In 2018, her work took her to Cambodia, Myanmar and...
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Understanding what the WHO public health emergency on Ebola means
Photo: USAID via Flickr For the fifth time in its history, the World Health Organization declared on July 17, that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was a public health emergency...
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AP correspondent brings his local experience to an international story
Al-hadji Kudra Maliro In August 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo declared its 10th outbreak of Ebola in 40 years. The number of cases has now surpassed 3,000 and more than 2,000 have died, making...
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