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A health worker manages supplies in a PEPFAR-funded AIDS clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 27, 2012

May 28, 2025

PEPFAR has always been about building sustainable systems, not creating permanent reliance. The U.S. Congress should recognize this and reauthorize the lifesaving program, argue three researchers.

Global Health NOW

February 14, 2025

Days after Uganda declared a new Ebola outbreak, a public health team launched the trial of a Sudan virus vaccine candidate, according to IAVI’s Swati Gupta.

Infectious Diseases

International Health

Vaccines

Global Health NOW

Green shield with white medical cross in the center of a teal background illustrated with hundreds of microbes

Public Health On Call Series—Vaccines 101

February 11, 2025

A series from the Public Health On Call podcast explores the science, safety, and systems behind vaccines.

Health Policy

Infectious Diseases

Vaccines

Bloomberg School

Computer rendering of human torso with mass in its lung overlaid with close-up of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria.

What the Tuberculosis Outbreak in Kansas Means for Public Health

February 06, 2025

The ongoing outbreak poses a low risk to the public, but it signals cracks in our public health infrastructure.

Bloomberg School

The U.S. and the WHO: An Imperfect but Essential Relationship

January 30, 2025

Leaving the World Health Organization would have broad impacts.

Health Security

Infectious Diseases

International Health

Technology and Innovation

Bloomberg School

Black and white historical photo from 1955 of families lined up at a school for polio shots. The line wraps around the building.

Polio and the Polio Vaccines

January 29, 2025

Both oral and injected poliovirus vaccines are safe and effective at protecting against polio.

Epidemiology

Infectious Diseases

Vaccines

Bloomberg School

Infectious Diseases Faculty Experts

Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of infectious diseases? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Amesh Adalja

Assistant Professor

- Adjunct

George Dimopoulos

Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

George Dimopoulos, PhD, MBA, studies vector-borne diseases and how mosquitoes can be rendered incapable of transmitting human pathogens.

Andrew Stanley Pekosz

Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Andy Pekosz, PhD, investigates the replication and disease potential of respiratory viruses including influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging viruses.

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