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Collapse and Resiliency
An insider account of how an African public health leader responded to an unprecedented Ebola outbreak. Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, MPH, DrPH, was the assistant minister of health and deputy chief medical officer in Liberia when the 2014 Ebola epidemic struck. Nyenswah, the incident manager who led the response, became known as the "Ebola Czar" for his pivotal role in combating the epidemic despite his government's lack of resources. His story underscores the public health strategies that succeeded and those that failed, highlighting important lessons in managing current and future outbreaks. In Collapse and Resiliency, Nyenswah presents an insider's view of Liberia's response to the deadly Ebola...
Collapse and Resiliency
"This book follows the author's journey from his youth in a small village to eventually leading an international response against the ebola outbreak of 2014"--
The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
"Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I sometimes struggled to convince my students that crises matter. Crises are not just distractions from the work of public health, I insisted. In the blink of an eye, crises become the work of public health. To aspiring health officials, I might add: "A crisis might determine whether you succeed or fail in your job." To future advocates, I might point out: "A crisis might create your most powerful opportunity for change.""--
Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical, sociocultural, and policy-related issues surrounding disasters, global bioethics, and public health ethics. These issues are elucidated under the conceptual rubric: Public health disasters (PHDs). The book defines PHDs as public health issues with devastating social consequences, the attendant public health impacts of natural or man-made disasters, and latent or low prevalence public health issues with the potential to rapidly acquire pandemic capacities. This notion is illustrated using Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks, atypical drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the health emergencies of earthquakes as focal ...
Global Development and Human Rights
Global Development and Human Rights analyses global efforts to implement long-term goals that seek to promote the health, happiness, and freedoms of individuals.
Summary of Hans Rosling's How I Learned to Understand the World
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I learned about the world from my father, who worked in the roasting shed at Lindvalls Kaffe in Uppsala. He would bring home coins from all over the world, and explain to me how they got there. #2 I had a small wireless set in a wooden case that stood on the String shelf above the kitchen table. I would listen to the news from Sveriges Radio, the national broadcaster, with my parents. My parents’ views mattered to me as a boy more than the actual news stories. #3 I was a teenager when I became fascinated by the challenge of understanding how people live their lives. I began to ask my mother’s and father’s parents detailed questions about their living conditions. #4 My grandma had a dream of owning a washing machine, which she did in 1940. She was able to keep it clean, and the clothes were easy to wash and dry. But my grandfather lost his job when he was seventeen, and he was ashamed to be unemployed.
A History of the World in Six Plagues
A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health. Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme’s examination of humanity’s...
Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response
The 2014â€"2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has been known since 1976, when two separate outbreaks were identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) and South Sudan (then Sudan). However, because all Ebola outbreaks prior to that in West Africa in 2014â€"2015 were relatively isolated and of short duration, little was known about how to best manage patients to improve survival, and there were no approved therapeutics or vaccines. When the World Heath Organization declared the 2014-2015 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern in August 2014, several teams began conducting formal clinical trials in the Ebola affected countries during the outbreak. Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience assesses the value of the clinical trials held during the 2014â€"2015 epidemic and makes recommendations about how the conduct of trials could be improved in the context of a future international emerging or re-emerging infectious disease events.
Understanding the Economics of Microbial Threats
Microbial threats, including endemic and emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, can cause not only substantial health consequences but also enormous disruption to economic activity worldwide. While scientific advances have undoubtedly strengthened our ability to respond to and mitigate the mortality of infectious disease threats, events over the past two decades have illustrated our continued vulnerability to economic consequences from these threats. To assess the current understanding of the interaction of infectious disease threats with economic activity and suggest potential new areas of research, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planned a 1.5-day public workshop on understanding the economics of microbial threats. This workshop built on prior work of the Forum on Microbial Threats and aimed to help transform current knowledge into immediate action. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
The Case for Case Studies
This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigorous and useful to development policy. It will interest scholars and students across the social sciences using case studies, and provide constructive guidance to practitioners in development and public administration.
