The risks of gain-of-function research on pandemic potential pathogens such as SARS and MERS outweigh the benefits. Greater oversight of biosafety, biosecurity, and biorisk management in laboratories must be done…
Food insecurity is one of the most daunting global issues: around one billion people are at risk of malnourishment across the world. In 2021, the New Global Commons Working Group…
The international focus centering on Ukraine’s military response to Russian aggression must not lose sight of the crises in the Ukrainian healthcare in the short…
As many Western nations rethink their pandemic policies to live with COVID, China is the last “zero-COVID policy” holdout. GJIA sat down with Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow…
Whereas significant progress has been made in controlling HIV globally, Russia’s epidemic has continued to grow for the past thirty years. Out of a total population of 144 million, about…
Exclusive focus on Chinese motivations for engaging Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) discounts the agency and influence regional leaders exhibit, particularly in crisis situations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, LAC…
Gaps in health, living standards, and welfare had been growing at alarming rates in many countries before COVID-19 ravaged the world. Since then, the pandemic has increased inequities within and…
The Biden administration has proposed a new funding mechanism for global health security, designed as a multilateral effort to strengthen pandemic preparedness. Answering open questions about country inclusion and developing…
Prior responses to infectious disease emergencies have been reactive and therefore suboptimal and often lagging. A proactive, policy-oriented approach focused on pathogen families most likely to cause a pandemic would…
The failure of scholars to recognize the agency of children in political spheres matches the failure in practice to engage children when developing programs aimed at responding to their specific…
