Whose Global Health Security?
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how “Global Health Security” is triggered when new diseases reach, or threaten to reach, the global north.
HIV/AIDS
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Read more: What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’? What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’?
Social movements’ impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the success that the anti-vax movement has had during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis
To save lives and improve individual and community outcomes, supervised injection sites should be part of the response to the opioid epidemic.
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Read more: Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy
An American public health and safety-promoting drug policy agenda grounded in sound science is long overdue.
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Read more: Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies
Moving the United States beyond the opioid overdose crisis and pernicious inequities in law enforcement requires bold, innovative solutions.
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Read more: What Ever Happened to NIH’s “Fair Pricing” Clause? What Ever Happened to NIH’s “Fair Pricing” Clause?
It remains to be seen whether Congress or the Administration adopt more decisive measures toward the control of drug prices than they have in the past.
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Read more: One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV
By Daniel Aaron In October, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conference of world-leading experts in HIV/AIDS to discuss one of the biggest public health successes in history: PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR was launched in 2003 in response to a burgeoning global epidemic of HIV. The program offered $2 billion annually,…
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Read more: A 15-year review of the PEPFAR support to Malawi: How Has it Succeeded? A 15-year review of the PEPFAR support to Malawi: How Has it Succeeded?
Monday, October 7, the Petrie-Flom Center is co-sponsoring “15+ Years of PEPFAR: How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health,” from 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute, the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, the Center for…
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Read more: PEPFAR and Health Systems Transformation in Nigeria PEPFAR and Health Systems Transformation in Nigeria
Monday, October 7, the Petrie-Flom Center is co-sponsoring “15+ Years of PEPFAR: How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health,” from 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. This event is cosponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute, the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research,…
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Read more: Not Another Scott County? Not Another Scott County?
By Emily Beukema, Aila Hoss, and Nicolas Terry In November 2014, Scott County, Indiana was the site of a now infamous HIV outbreak linked to intravenous drug use. Syringe service programs (SSP) would not only have curbed that outbreak but also could have prevented it from occurring in the first place. Later analysis found that…
