Global Health

The Influenza Imperative: An Urgent Need to Leverage Lessons from COVID-19 to Prepare for a Global Response to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza

by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...

Improving Short-Term Medical Engagements with Low-to-Middle-Income Countries

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction The term short-term medical engagements (STMEs) encompasses medical missions, volunteer internships, medical and nursing student rotations, global health education, and medical brigades. STMEs represent a way for faith-based, non-profit, and...

What Happens After Disease X: Using One Health to Prevent the Next Pandemic

by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 9, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This is the first time the world has seen a...

Learning from the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interprofessional Perspective on Health Professions Education

by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 2, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>       Introduction Health professional educators around the world have demonstrated their ability to respond creatively to challenges posed by the...

Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>         ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care...

COVID-19: An Urgent Call for Coordinated, Trusted Sources to Tell Everyone What They Need to Know and Do

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>         Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of...

People in Hong Kong Have the Longest Life Expectancy in the World: Some Possible Explanations

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 21, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Since 1985, Japan has led the world in life expectancy, but Hong Kong, the once British colony and now a special administrative region of China, has taken over the lead position since 2010. With its extremely rapid post–World War II (WWII) economic development...

The Evolving Case for Public-Private Partnerships to Achieve the Global Goals

by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 1, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Upon arriving in Kenya in 1987, I was a well-trained parasitologist who knew nothing about development, economics, political systems, or structural poverty. Kenya, however, became my classroom. The focus three decades ago was to attack one disease at a time, to...

Access to Medical Devices in Low-Income Countries: Addressing Sustainability Challenges in Medical Device Donations

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 16, 2018 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction In eastern Uganda, a regional hospital receives a much-needed donation: an x-ray machine that appears to be in good working condition upon arrival. The hospital staff quickly puts the machine to use, only to have it fail during a procedure. With no...

Core Competencies in One Health Education: What Are We Missing?

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 4, 2018 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction Today’s public health challenges are complex and crosscutting. Antimicrobial resistance, pollution, food security, biosafety, biosecurity, and emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are associated with changes in land use, population growth,...