Apr 27 2022
Growing up in a farming household in Homa Bay, a rural town in western Kenya along Lake Victoria, Dr. Samuel Oyola was often sick. So were his four older siblings …
Apr 26 2022
Press Releases
Supports low- and middle-income countries’ efforts to overcome demand-side barriers to vaccination to reach at-risk populations NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 | The Rockefeller Foundation announced the launch of the Global …
Apr 26 2022
Press Releases
NEW YORK | April 26, 2022 — The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) announced the recipients of the 2022 NFID awards, which honor outstanding individuals who have made significant …
Apr 26 2022
In the first year of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, the United States struggled to reach the most vulnerable communities, with Black, brown, indigenous, and immigrant communities less likely to get …
Apr 14 2022
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, hundreds of communities have begun monitoring their wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Wastewater surveillance offers unique advantages over traditional disease surveillance. Because the data are …
Health U.S. and the Americas
Apr 12 2022
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, only a single lab in Malawi was working to sample SARS-CoV-2 viruses in this country of 19.55 million people. Only four people were working in …
Apr 08 2022
Speeches
Imperial College London, Thursday, April 7, 2022 Thank you. Hello, everyone. Thank you, Provost Wolmsley, I appreciate that kind introduction and those comments about the values of the school and the process …
Apr 05 2022
Perspective
With the United States over a year into its vaccination campaign, all eyes right now are on Covid-19 rates broken out by vaccination status—measures of the number of Covid-19 cases, …
Mar 31 2022
Perspective
In January, journalist Jill Filipovic published a deep look at how Covid-19 has affected the lives of adolescent girls in Kenya. For them, the past couple of years have been filled …