Pandemics
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH
Director of the Pandemic Center, Professor of EpidemiologyResearch Interests: Pandemics and public health preparedness and response, health systems resilience -
Ashish Jha, M.D., MPH
Dean of the School of Public Health, Former White House COVID-19 Response CoordinatorResearch Interests: health systems, pandemic response, vaccination, global health, public health communications -
Beth Cameron Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and PracticeResearch Interests: health policy, pandemic preparedness, government pandemic response, biosecurity, bioterrorism -
Wilmot James, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and PracticeResearch Interests: global health, vaccine manufacturing, pandemic preparedness, biosecurity -
Alyssa Bilinski, Ph.D.
Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and of BiostatisticsResearch Interests: COVID-19, Infectious disease epidemiology, data-driven infectious disease management -
Craig Spencer, M.D., MPH
Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and PracticeResearch Interests: Emergency medicine physician, frontline preparedness, global health, real world impact, equitable access to treatment
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The Trump administration changed course on Tuesday, deciding to keep the government's free COVID test program running, just minutes before the website, COVIDtests.gov, was set to shut down.
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.
The Trump administration's foreign aid freeze is happening as a deadly Ebola outbreak spreads in Uganda. Some U.S. health officials are concerned that the situation will only worsen with USAID in limbo. Dr. Craig Spencer, emergency medicine physician and associate professor at Brown University School of Public Health, joins "America Decides" to explain.
A dairy worker in Nevada may have tested positive for a strain of H5N1 bird flu known to have killed one person and severely sickened another. CNN reported Saturday night that a worker tested positive for the D1.1 version of the H5N1 bird flu virus. Confirmation testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is underway.
Bird flu's unprecedented spread among livestock and other mammals in the U.S. has raised fears that another pandemic could be in store.