https://youtu.be/Vtf44l5tysc Global health expert Dr. Annie Sparrow joined Forbes editor Diane Brady to discuss the...
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How Assad Has Encumbered Syria Earthquake Relief Efforts, & What Govts Must Do Now
https://youtu.be/-Fzz-K9vSU0 Donate to UNICEF to help Turkey's relief efforts: https://www.unicefusa.org/ Annie...
Don’t Rely on Assad to Get Aid to Syria’s Earthquake Victims
An aerial view of collapsed buildings as search and rescue efforts continue in Idlib, Syria on February 13,...
Syria: The Other Threat
A health worker giving polio vaccine drops to a child, as part of a vaccination campaign organized by the opposition...
Russia is waging war on Ukrainian healthcare
Article initially published on July 5, 2020 in the Financial Times and written by Annie Sparrow. Read full article on...
Health Care Under Fire
Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images Men inspecting a hospital damaged by an air strike in a rebel-controlled town,...
Putin Is Targeting Ukrainian Hospitals. That’s a War Crime.
Workers attach a banner with a photo of a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher after the bombing of a maternity...
This Beijing Olympics, ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ also applies to Omicron
Article initially published in Equal Times on February 3rd, 2022 and written by Gabriella Selva and Annie Sparrow....
Are the Strict COVID Plans for the Beijing Olympics Necessary?
Article initially published in Medpagetoday on October 7, 2021 and written by Annie Sparrow Beijing recently...
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...
Olympics: Unanswered questions about serious COVID-19 risks
Article initially published in The Hill on July 6, 2021 and written by Lisa M. Brosseau, SCD and Annie Sparrow M.D....
Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 — The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach
Article initially published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July 1, 2021 and written by Annie K. Sparrow,...
How the IOC can avoid a COVID-19 superspreader Olympics
Getty Images Article initially published in The Hill on June 16, 2021 and written by Lisa Brosseau and Annie Sparrow....
Countries buying COVID-19 vaccines & treatments while many developing countries are unable to do so
Annie Sparrow Interview on Al Jazeera
Considering BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19
Article initially published in The Lancet on April 30, 2020 as part of the Issue 10236 in volume 395 (published on May...
Should People Without Coronavirus Antibodies Be Second-Class Citizens?
Article initially published in The New York Times on April 28, 2020 and written by Ken Roth & Annie Sparrow. One...
This Vaccine Could Save Health Care Workers’ Lives Now
A nurse in a hazmat suit packages a completed test for the coronavirus to be sent to a lab in Somerville,...
How to Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
Workers wait for medical waste to be delivered to their storage facility at the Youan Hospital in Beijing on Feb....
How China’s Coronavirus Is Spreading—and How to Stop It
A medical staff member takes the temperature of a man at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in China on Jan. 25. HECTOR...
China Deserves Some Credit for Its Handling of the Wuhan Pneumonia
Staff members of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team conduct searches on the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale...
Ebola in Africa: What We’re Getting Wrong
Baz Ratner/Reuters A health worker in an Ebola treatment center, Beni, North Kivu, Congo, May 2019 Article initially...
The Ongoing Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018–2019
Article initially published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July 25, 2019 and written by Oly Ilunga Kalenga,...
Bashar al-Assad Is Waging Biological War—By Neglect
Syrian patients receiving treatment in a basement-turned-clinic in the besieged rebel-held town of Douma, on the...
How UN Humanitarian Aid Has Propped Up Assad
A Red Crescent aid convoy in Douma, March 2018.Bassam Khabieh / Reuters Article initially published in Foreign Affairs...
Blood and war: How a UN agency cooperates with Assad
Elizabeth Hoff, World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Syria, speaks at a press briefing in Geneva on...
Ireland can help UN to stop Assad manipulating humanitarian aid
Omar (10), who was injured in an air strike that killed several members of his family, at a make-shift hospital in...
A summary and appraisal of existing evidence of antimicrobial resistance in the Syrian conflict
Article initially published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases on June 21, 2018 and written by Aula...
Antimicrobial resistance in the context of the Syrian conflict: Drivers before and after the onset of conflict and key recommendations
Article initially published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases on May 21, 2018 and written by Aula...
Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence debate
Syrian Conflict: Irish Syria Solidarity Movement Chairman In the first part of the meeting we will meet Dr. Annie...
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...
Hypocritic Oath
How WHO and other international agencies aid Assad’s war against Syria’s civilians. Article initially published in...
Death and suffering in Eastern Ghouta, Syria: a call for action to protect civilians and health care
Article initially published in The Lancet issue 10123, volume 391 (March 3, 2018) on February 26, 2018 and written by...
Syria, the UN and humanitarian aid
Letter to the editor published in The Irish Times on July 5, 2018 and written by Annie Sparrow. Sir, – The UN's Office...
Delivering aid to the people of Syria
Letter to the editor published in The Irish Times on June 30, 2018 and written by Annie Sparrow. Sir, – My aim in...
The C.I.A. Psychologists
Opinion letter initially published in The New York Times on June 6, 2017 and written by Annie Sparrow. Read the full...
Doctors on the Frontline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ4wC8CiyOM&t=118s&ab_channel=WomenintheWorld
Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet – American University of Beirut Commission on Syria
Article initially published in The Lancet on March 14, 2017 and written by Fouad M Fouad, Annie Sparrow, Ahmad...
Abandoning Aleppo: Evacuation of rebel-held areas
from Inside Story Watch report here Buses take fighters and their families out of eastern Aleppo under a fragile...
Improving Early Detection and Disease Preparedness: Q&A with Annie Sparrow
Q&A initially published on the Independent Commission on Multilateralism's website in September 2016. Though not a...
Born to Fight
A woman carries a son while tending to the wounds of another son inside a field hospital after what activists said was...
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...
Who isn’t equipped for a pandemic or bioterror attack? The WHO
Article initially published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on June 20, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow...
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:...
“Healthcare is First Casualty of War”: Q&A with Annie Sparrow
Interview initially published in the Global Observatory on May 6, 2016 and written by Els Debuf. Ongoing attacks on...
The UN’s Role in the Sieges in Syria
Syrian Army soldiers monitor residents who said they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the...
Improving Early Detection and Disease Preparedness: Q&A with Annie Sparrow
Though not a direct cause, conflict is a major driver of infectious disease, according to Annie Sparrow, Assistant...
Aiding Disaster
A girl, who was injured by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad,...
The dilemma facing Syrian refugees
The journey for refugees is more perilous than ever as winter sets in across Europe. Watch report here It’s a...
War is the Enemy of Health. Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine in War-Torn Syria
Article initially published in ATS Journales on November 23, 2015 and written by Mohammed Z. Sahloul, Jaber...
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,...
Poison Gas
Imperial War Museum, London John Singer Sargent: Gassed, 1919 Reply by Annie Sparrow written in response to a...
Syria: Death from Assad’s Chlorine
Mass graves for the hundreds of civilians who died in sarin attacks on the Syrian town of Zamalka in eastern Ghouta in...
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
Annie Sparrow, Pediatrician and public health specialist
Watch interview here Dr. Annie Sparrow is an Australian global health specialist based at New York's Mount Sinai...
Syria’s Polio Epidemic: The Suppressed Truth
Hosam Katan/Reuters A health worker talking with a family in Aleppo before administering polio vaccinations, January...
Doctors on the frontline: we are targets in Syria’s civil war
The victims of civil war doctors are trying to help. Manu Brabo/AP We don’t know the exact details of why Abbas...
Syria’s Assault on Doctors
JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images A destroyed ambulance in Aleppo, Syria, January 12, 2013 Article initially published in The...
Preventing Medicine: A New Weapon of Mass Destruction
Article initially published in The New Humanitarian on September 16, 2013 and written by Annie Sparrow. Last week, New...