The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 31, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Infectious disease physician and Duke Professor Paul Pronyk remembers watching helplessly in the late 1990s as HIV-exposed patients entered a clinic in South Africa where he could
The Launch and Scale Speedometer blog series. August 26, 2022 By Victoria Hsiung and Wenhui Mao MONKEYPOX ISSUE BRIEF The ongoing global outbreak of monkeypox is poised to test public health infrastructure across the globe. Monkeypox, a viral infection in
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 18, 2022 By Nellie Bristol While the world developed and distributed COVID-19 vaccines with unprecedented speed, the required emergency focus, coupled with response inequities and disruptions caused by the pandemic itself, took
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 11, 2022 By Katharine Olson and Nellie Bristol COVID-19 has disrupted clinical care and supply chains throughout the world, testing the resilience and flexibility of health systems everywhere. Services for those living
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 3, 2022 By Talkmore Maruta, Senior Biosafety and Biosecurity Officer, Africa CDC and Nellie Bristol, COVID GAP With its rapidly growing urban population, high burden of infectious disease, and widespread gaps in
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. July 21, 2022 By Nellie Bristol COVID-19 created a real-world stress test for pandemic preparedness and response. While there were some successes, many systems showed dangerous faults. The authors of national health emergency
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. July 14, 2022 By Nellie Bristol and Krishna Udayakumar The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s call to include an omicron component in vaccines that will be used for boosters in the U.S. beginning in fall
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. June 23, 2022 By Nellie Bristol and Ernesto Ortiz As the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up in early 2020, Peru already was on its way to having one of the highest recorded death rates
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. June 2, 2022 By Nellie Bristol In the third year of a global pandemic that has caused millions of deaths and trillions of dollars in lost economic activity, the potential benefits of coordinated
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. May 18, 2022 By Nellie Bristol The U.S. government, with co-hosts Germany, Indonesia, Belize, and Senegal, galvanized a much needed blast of attention and resources toward the coronavirus pandemic and future preparedness at
