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Claire Hudson is a media relations associate at PATH. Before joining PATH, Claire served on the staff of elected officials in Washington, DC; Brooklyn, NY; and the Seattle area. She received a degree from Scripps College, which included a semester at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Every week, Claire combs the news for groundbreaking stories in global health to share with you on PATH’s blog. It must have been a tough choice for New York Times op-ed contributors Charles J. Vorosmarty and Claudia Pahl-Wostil: Lead off with the dead pig spill in China’s Huangpu River, the 8 million plastic discs covered with sewage in Massachusetts’ … Continue reading
By now, even casual observers of public health know that if tuberculosis ever was a disease of the past, it is no longer. This week, National Public Radio’s Jason Beaubien filed a moving story from Moldova, a small country once … Continue reading
Seems like Coca-Cola should be able to work this into a marketing campaign somehow: a young participant at this week’s Women Deliver conference remarked that while he can get a Coke anywhere, it’s not easy to find contraceptives. The Inter … Continue reading
It’s a complicated question: What role should large pharmaceutical companies play in improving health in developing countries? In The Guardian this week, Rwandan health minister Agnes Binagwaho sorts through the pros and cons in her response to an earlier commentary … Continue reading
On Wednesday, actress Angelina Jolie wrote in The New York Times about her decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy to lessen her chance of developing breast cancer. Jolie carries the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk for breast … Continue reading
Fifty years ago this spring, five-year-old Jeryl Lynn Hilleman woke up with the mumps. Her father, a scientist at a pharmaceutical company, took a sample from the back of her throat that eventually led to the development of a vaccine … Continue reading
At what level of daily income are people no longer living in poverty? Charles Kenny, a fellow at the Center for Global Development and the New America Foundation, took on that question this week in Businessweek. Right now, extreme poverty … Continue reading
To mark World Malaria Day yesterday, Dr. David Kaslow, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, posed an optimistic question: what’s the role of malaria vaccines in the ongoing effort to eliminate the disease? Optimistic, because until recently, the answer … Continue reading
It’s been the kind of week that shakes even the most cynical news reader. Fatal bombings in Boston, Somalia, Pakistan, and Iraq and an explosion in a tiny Texas town. So much sadness in just seven days. In global health, … Continue reading
This week’s news includes a potentially far-reaching decision by the Indian Supreme Court that will give people in developing countries continuing access to low-cost copies of drugs to treat diseases and infections like HIV and cancer. We’re also intrigued by … Continue reading
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