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Infectious Threats
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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,...
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
Syria’s Polio Epidemic: The Suppressed Truth
Hosam Katan/Reuters A health worker talking with a family in Aleppo before administering polio vaccinations, January...