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FILE PHOTO: An employee in personal protective equipment (PPE) removes vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, from a visual inspection machine inside a lab at Serum Institute of India, Pune

COVID-19 in India: Where Is It at and What Does the Future Have in Store?

Murad Banaji 06/12/2020

The national COVID-19 story is the sum of varied...

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How Ending Polio in Africa Has Had Positive Spinoffs for Public Health

Charles Shey Wiysonge 10/11/2020

Polio eradication created renewed demand for vaccination services and...

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A Global Survey Shows Vaccine Hesitancy Is Real

Scott C. Ratzan, Agnes Binagwaho, Heidi Larson, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Kenneth Rabin and Lawrence O. Gostin 09/11/2020

A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be...

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Inside the Fall of the CDC

James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg, ProPublica 17/10/2020

How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought...

Rita Colwell spoke in the Accelerating Innovation at Universities Symposium as a keynote speaker. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0

A Conversation With Rita Colwell

Dan Falk 10/10/2020

"The assumption was that anyone who was really brilliant,...

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How Globalisation Intersects With the Local Lens of Public Health

Dr Yash Milind Prasade, Dr Parul Malik and Dr Arathi P Rao 05/10/2020

While globalisation could precipitate or accentuate local health effects,...

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Why Access to Decent Toilets Could Help Reduce Sexual Violence in South Africa

Andrew Gibbs and Tarylee Reddy 23/09/2020

Studies have linked the lack of adequate sanitation to...