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Cooperative Solutions To Local, Global Threats
This week the HSP team attended the 2016 ASM Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Meeting. HSP Advisory Board member, Dr. Michael Callahan, delivered the opening address with the theme "Global Threats, Collaborative Solutions." In his talk "Biosurveillance within a Flat Global Landscape," Dr. Callahan covered a broad range of topics including Ebola, Zika, and the burden of emerging infectious diseases, and how globalization is increasing the rate and way in which these … Continue Reading
August 22, 2015
NGOs And The Global Health Security Agenda
The concept of global health security has incorporated itself rapidly into the vernacular of public health and national security circles. From journal articles to conferences, public sector initiatives to academic programs, the linking of health and security is becoming commonplace. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa accelerated the general understanding of the interdependencies of public health, emerging infectious disease, and national security. The launch of the Global Health Security … Continue Reading
June 26, 2015
From Indonesia To Washington, DC: The 2015 Stewards Fellowship Launch
Last week, we brought together a cohort of Indonesian university faculty to Georgetown University for a weeklong training for the 2015 Health Security Stewards Fellowship. During the first two days, they sat in as students to a condensed course on global health security, which is taught at Georgetown, Cornell, and the George Washington Universities. Guest lecturers included experts from these universities as well as from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and U.S. Department of … Continue Reading
March 13, 2015
A Successful Kick-off To The 2015 Futures Fellowship
Earlier this month, we launched our 2015 Health Security Futures Fellowship at the 7th International Conference for Health Issues in Arab Communities in Muscat, Oman. The Fellowship uniquely brought together 26 early-career students from the United States, Pakistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Throughout the week, the Fellows were paired with a foreign peer Fellow and attended a series of intensive training sessions ranging from non-communicable disease to intentional misuse of biological pathogens. … Continue Reading