The Washington DC-based Consortium of Universities for Global Health (www.cugh.org) calls on the US Congress to pass publicly supported gun safety regulations. The massacre of innocent children in Uvalde, Texas, and the targeted slaughter of African American civilians in Buffalo, are the latest and most visible examples of the preventable public health gun violence crisis…
Read MoreA CALL TO ACTION TO REFORM GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS
The global health enterprise has improved the well-being of people. However, structural inequities persist within the sector. This contributes to inequality and impacts Sustainable Development Goals. Read the full article, published in The BMJ, and authored by UGHE’s Agnes Binagwaho, and CUGH’s Executive Director, Keith Martin, among others, and sign our call to action…
Read MoreASPPH Appropriations Priorities for FY2023
Please see below the Appropriations Priorities the ASPPH suggests for FY2023. National Institutes of Health (NIH) – $49.0 B $110.0 M to fund NIH Fogarty International Center $1.0 B to fund Advanced Research Projects for Health(ARPA-H) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – $11.0 B $37.0 M to fund CDC Prevention Research Centers $20.0…
Read MoreOpinion piece on Monkeypox published in Scientific American by CUGH TAC Member Dr. Jawad Noon
Please see this opinion piece by TAC member Dr. Jawad Noon on Monkeypox for Scientific American. It outlines how policymakers can apply lessons learned from COVID19 to the current monkeypox outbreak.
Read MoreGlobal Palliative Care and Pain Relief Research Hub (Webinar Series)
Overview This complimentary webinar series, held every other month, is a collaborative venture between the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Supportive Care Service, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System, the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, and the…
Read MoreGeneva Health Forum: Addressing the Environmental Drivers of Pandemics
The environmental drivers of disease spillover are neglected in current efforts to prevent and detect future pandemics. The following session at the Geneva Health Forum, “Addressing the Environmental Drivers of Pandemics,” was co-organized and moderated by CUGH’s Executive Director, Dr. Keith Martin. It contains many useful initiatives from leading scientists in the field that will…
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