Article initially published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July 25, 2019 and written by Oly Ilunga Kalenga,...
Infectious Diseases
Populations under siege and in prison require investment from Syria’s national tuberculosis programme
Initially published in The Lancet on May 10, 2018 (as part of Volume 6, Issue 7, E34, published on July 1, 2018) and...
Cholera in the time of war: implications of weak surveillance in Syria for the WHO’s preparedness—a comparison of two monitoring systems
Articles initially published in BMJ Journals on July 22, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow, Khaled Almilaji, Bachir...
The Awful Diseases on the Way
Article initially published in The New York Review on June 9, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow. Reviewed: Pandemic:...
Defining Polio: Closing the Gap in Global Surveillance
Article initially published in the Annals of Global Health in 2015 and written by Bachir Tajaldin, Khaled Almilaji,...
The Truth About the Measles
(Reuters/Brian Snyder) Article initially published in The Nation on March 4, 2015 and written by Annie Sparrow No...
Before Ebola, Health Officials Thought the Age of Epidemics Was Over—It Wasn’t
Article initially published by The Nation on October 10, 2014 Read the full article on thenation.com
Fighting Polio in Syria: Save the Children Responds
ACU/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Health workers carrying polio vaccine, as part of a vaccination campaign organized by...
Syria: The Other Threat
A health worker giving polio vaccine drops to a child, as part of a vaccination campaign organized by the opposition...
The Truth About Polio in Syria
Article initially published in The New York Review on March 6, 2014 and written by Annie Sparrow in response to Bruce...
Syria’s Polio Epidemic: The Suppressed Truth
Hosam Katan/Reuters A health worker talking with a family in Aleppo before administering polio vaccinations, January...