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Timeline of attacks on Healthcare in Ukraine

by | November 27, 2022 | Conflict, Ukraine, Weaponisation of Healthcare | 0 Comments

Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (updated in real time) To view timeline click here
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Break Out the Condoms to Fight Monkeypox

by | July 25, 2022 | Infectious Diseases, Infectious Threats, Monkeypox | 0 Comments

People wait in line to receive the monkeypox vaccine before the opening of a new mass vaccination site in Brooklyn, New York, on July 17. KENA BETANCUR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Article initially published in Foreign Policy and written by Annie Sparrow. Clear, honest...
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Russia is waging war on Ukrainian healthcare

by | July 5, 2022 | Conflict, Ukraine, Weaponisation of Healthcare | 0 Comments

Article initially published on July 5, 2020 in the Financial Times and written by Annie Sparrow. Read full article on ft.com
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Health Care Under Fire

by | June 23, 2022 | Conflict, Syria, Weaponisation of Healthcare | 0 Comments

Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images Men inspecting a hospital damaged by an air strike in a rebel-controlled town, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, May 2017 Article initially published on June 23, 2022 in The New York Review of Books and written by Annie Sparrow Reviewed: Perilous...
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Putin Is Targeting Ukrainian Hospitals. That’s a War Crime.

by | April 11, 2022 | Conflict, Ukraine, Weaponisation of Healthcare | 0 Comments

Workers attach a banner with a photo of a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher after the bombing of a maternity ward in Mariupol during Russia's war in Ukraine that is displayed as part of an exhibition at the railway station in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 25,...
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This Beijing Olympics, ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ also applies to Omicron

by | February 3, 2022 | Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Omicron, Sports | 0 Comments

Article initially published in Equal Times on February 3rd, 2022 and written by Gabriella Selva and Annie Sparrow. Speaking of the Beijing Olympics, Chinese president Xi Jinping promises a “streamlined, safe and splendid Games”. International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
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Are the Strict COVID Plans for the Beijing Olympics Necessary?

by | October 7, 2021 | Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Sports | 0 Comments

Article initially published in Medpagetoday on October 7, 2021 and written by Annie Sparrow Read full article on medpagetoday.com
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Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 — The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach

by | July 1, 2021 | Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Sports | 0 Comments

Article initially published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July 1, 2021 and written by Annie K. Sparrow, M.D., M.P.H., Lisa M. Brosseau, Sc.D., Robert J. Harrison, M.D., M.P.H., and Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H. In late July,...
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How the IOC can avoid a COVID-19 superspreader Olympics

by | June 16, 2021 | Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Sports | 0 Comments

Getty Images Article initially published in The Hill on June 16, 2021 and written by Lisa Brosseau and Annie Sparrow. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is good reason to be extremely concerned that the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and the Japanese...
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ountries buying COVID-19 vaccines & treatments while many developing countries are unable to do so

by | July 1, 2020 | Covid-19, Infectious Threats | 0 Comments

Annie Sparrow Interview on Al Jazeera
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About Annie

Annie Sparrow, MBBS, MRCP, FRACP, MPH, combines the clinical skills of an experienced practitioner with public-health expertise acquired from working in many of the world’s most devastating combat zones. She is an Associate Professor of Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where she teaches human rights and humanitarian aid in complex emergencies. An Australian, Dr. Sparrow spent most of her first ten postgraduate years practicing pediatric critical care in London and her native Perth. She began focusing on refugee health and human rights after a brief stint in Afghanistan under Taliban control in 1999. 

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