MEDIA Schiff: Archive

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Current disease surveillance in the US : physicians and labs submit data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There’s typically a week-long delay between an outbreak and the release of an official report,” Adam Cole reports on NPR’s Shots. So what’s a public health expert in search of more real-time information to do? Hit the Internet, of...

Feb 24th

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“Old-school tropical medicine is really a thing of the past.”

– Joep Lange, the head of the department of global health at the University of Amsterdam, is quoted in a New York Times piece on how European universities are approaching the study of international health.

Feb 21st

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Bird Flu Flap: A Timeline of the Controversy Over...

In advance of the tomorrow’s closed-door World Health Organization meeting, I created a timeline of the bird flu research controversy: ]]> The timeline is also hosted on Humanosphere.

Feb 15th

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Feb 15th

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Feb 7th

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Feb 6th

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Change.org is attracting one million new members... →

The focus of Nicholas Kristof’s column this week is Change.org, the site that is helping “very ordinary people to defeat some of the most powerful corporate and political interests around.” “We’re growing more each month than the total we had in the first four years,” Ben Rattray, Change.org’s founder, told Kristof. Users launch about 10,000 petitions each...

Feb 5th

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Facebook's Worth > 6 Years of Breast Cancer...

Based on Facebook’s IPO filing, market analysts put the company’s total value at a high of $100 billion. Assuming it is worth that much, Mashable compiled a list of “giant” things that are less valuable than Facebook. The third spot on the list puts it into perspective for the health wonks out there: The Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment for 6 Years Breast cancer costs the...

Feb 1st

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7 Questions with Barbara Bush, CEO of Global... →

Feb 1st

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Jan 31st

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“The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases serves as a new generation...”

– Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, describing a new partnership between 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other organisations.

Jan 30th

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“I am proud to live in a world where a stranger’s suffering matters. Yet foreign...”

– Bill Gates

Jan 27th

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#Devnews Tweets from #SOTU

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Jan 25th

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Science writer Carl Zimmer discusses a deeply...

Jan 24th

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Global Fund launches a blog, revamped web site

From the first post: For the 10th anniversary of the Global Fund, and as part of the on-going improvements to our online platforms, the web site is seeing a number of changes. … The updated design aims to improve the look and feel and functionality of our web site, with more changes to come in the weeks ahead. As of today, the Global Fund web site will maintain a blog where you ...

Jan 23rd

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Globally-focused charities on Tumblr →

earthandspacequest: I hope that more charities will be joining tumblr’s ranks, so in an effort to raise awareness of different organizations and their missions, I’m creating a list of these groups & their tumblr presence! UNICEF Doctors Without Borders For Japan With Love: Raising awareness & money for… … click through for full list.

Jan 22nd

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Jan 17th

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Will new fellowship create a Dr. Oz for the global... →

“I think in order to be effective change agents and advocates for global health, we need to tell a story quite persuasively and we need to learn to do that through various forms of media, whether it’s TV, social media or investigative journalism,” Michele Barry, director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, said of the Stanford-NBC News Global Health Media...

Nov 18th

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Clinton calls for “AIDS-free generation,” signs...

My piece for Humanosphere. Check out the Storify at the end.

Nov 13th

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Oct 14th

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Sep 23rd

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“Scott Z. Burns and Steven Soderbergh insisted that Contagion be firmly grounded...”

– Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, in an interview with Wired. Lipkin was chief science advisor for the movie Contagion, which was released in the US on Friday.

Sep 10th

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The Health Effects of 9/11

The Atlantic Wire notes a recent study, which has the “first substantive findings that show working at Ground Zero increased cancer risks.” Rebecca Greenfield highlights findings from other studies on health-related impacts: Stress response to the attacks has been associated with a 53 percent increased incidence of cardiovascular issues, a study three years after 9/11 found. ...

Sep 3rd

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A Hurricane Irene Baby Boom?

From the Washington Post: Doctors alerted women who are due to give birth in the next week or so to have their hospital bags packed a little early. The drop in barometric pressure associated with the hurricane could cause a woman’s water to break early. Hospital officials said they are aware that lowering of atmospheric pressure tends to result in a spike in births.

Aug 27th

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7 Surprisingly Good Global Health News Sources You... →

Aug 25th

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Aug 9th

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Partners in Help: Assisting the poor over the long... →

Paul Farmer discusses “accompaniment” and aid theory in this Foreign Affairs piece. Via numberneededtotreat.

Aug 7th

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Aug 4th

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“Houston, We Have a Solution.” Why The Texas City... →

Aug 3rd

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If 30 African heads of state were to give up their... →

Africa Fighting Malaria Director Richard Tren highlights the money spent (wasted?) on transporting African leaders in luxury. For example, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and John Kufuor, former president of Ghana, “have splashed out on new jets to the tune of around $30 million each.” Tren suggests money saved on elaborate private jets could be used to create a malaria control...

Jul 25th

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Gates Foundation: Time for Toilet 2.0

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched a $42 million campaign to update and improve the toilet for people in the developing world. In a speech at a conference in Kigali, Rwanda, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the foundation’s Global Development Program, said: “No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation...

Jul 20th

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Jul 14th

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The Gates Foundation's shiny, new malaria... →

Jul 7th

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Jun 27th

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Jun 13th

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Coolest Office in the World (or at Least in...

That’s the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new Seattle headquarters, which celebrated its opening on Thursday. “The opening marked the culmination of a seven-year process to build the 900,000-square-foot campus on a 12-acre site across from the Seattle Center at a cost of $500 million,” according to The Seattle Times.

Jun 3rd

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Transparency 2.0 →

thebrightcontinent: If you haven’t already, read Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s heated altercation with journalist Ian Birrell on Twitter. It’s a remarkable example of how technology can pry open heretofore opaque systems.

May 18th

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May 5th

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Apr 27th

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Apr 21st

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CNN reports on Ethiopia’s newspaper rental industry. From the piece: Garum Tesfaye is one of Addis Ababa’s “newspaper landlords,” a group of entrepreneurs in the Ethiopian capital who rent out papers to people too poor to buy them. … Tesfaye says that 30 to 40 people will read a single paper. At the end of the day, the well-thumbed publications can be sold on. ...

Apr 21st

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