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As we emerge from one pandemic, we must shift our focus to figure out how to prevent the next one.

11.18.2019 a graph of a vaccine

Vaccine Hesitancy Is Still Trending

Vaccine advocates are drowning out vaccine denouncers. Very few are engaging others and changing opinions as tweeters exist in separate bubbles.

Fellow Greg Kantor

10.08.2019 a graphic of a disease

Hectic Vectors

The incidence of insect-borne diseases, like Eastern Equine Encephalitis, continues to rise across the US. Blame it on climate change.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

09.02.2019 a map of the united states with red dots and numbers

Measles Madness

Health authorities declared that measles had been eliminated from the nation in 2000, yet the virus has reemerged at alarmingly high rates in 2019.

Fellow Jori Fortson

05.02.2019 a group of people walking in front of a building

Maybe the End of HIV

Reaching an end to this disease will require new attention to health systems and social stigma, to geography, to housing and outreach, to the long work of public health.

Guest Author Sandro Galea

Editor Michael Stein