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No shortage of crises in these first 60 days but the wholesale collapse of health systems poses an enormous threat to our ability to control drug resistant pathogens - both TB and non-TB bacterial pathogens but also malaria and other parasitic infections. Where this will lead, no one knows, but we can safely assume that it won't be good, and will potentially roll back decades of progress on containment of infectious diseases. Many of us are alive because of this progress, and every single one of us is a stakeholder no matter which country we live in. My comments in this Devex piece by Catherine Davison.

It's not often that a book about tuberculosis hits #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list in its first week. Congrats to John Green on his smash success with Everything is Tuberculosis! We are elated that this book is bringing awareness to the ongoing TB crisis and the rise of drug-resistant TB. We are also happy that we were able to talk to John on our latest One World, One Health podcast episode about the book, what drove him to write it, and the strange history and devastating persistence of the world's most deadly infectious disease. Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/dSS-D-uC #JohnGreen #EverythingIsTuberculosis #TBawareness #BookRecommendations #DrugResistantTB #InfectiousDiseases #PodcastEpisode New York Times Books And News Penguin Random House

This week’s digest covers an article that shows how social media influencers can be leveraged to help raise awareness about the HPV vaccine and encourage more people to get vaccinated. A mixed methods study determined that working with social media influencers in Nigeria led to increases in awareness of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine from 50 to 80 percent, vaccination rates among eligible girls from 30 to 50 percent, and willingness to recommend the vaccine from 50 to 60 percent among social media users. Notably, this effort did not mitigate concerns about the HPV vaccine’s side effects, which likely requires more targeted communication and support from experts. Read the article in International Journal of Infectious Diseases here: https://lnkd.in/djDJYWf7 More digest here: https://lnkd.in/dvnCHeXX #HPV #HPVVaccine #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #CancerPrevention #HealthAwareness #SocialMedia

Happening today! The GARP-India team (Christian Medical College and Hospital - CMCH Vellore the One Health Trust) is hosting a session on the public rollout of vaccination in special populations and its likely impact on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Speaker, Dr. Satinder Aneja, Former Director-Professor & Head of the Department of Paediatrics at Lady Hardinge Medical College - LHMC New Delhi New Delhi, will explore how vaccination shields vulnerable groups from severe infections and reduces the need for antibiotics—a crucial step in combating AMR. ?? Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025 ? Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM IST ?? Register now: https://lnkd.in/dbtqf77y #GARP #VaccinesWork #AMR #PublicHealth #InfectiousDiseases #Immunization #ElderlyHealth #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #AMR Priscilla Rupali; Jacob John; Anuj Sharma; Anurag Bhargava; Dr Santosh Taur, MD, DM, CMD; Winsley Rose; Sangeeta Sharma; Sagar Khadanga; Aravind Kuma; Muralidhar Varma; Umang Agrawal; Dr Sumit Rai; Anita Kotwani; Rajib Dasgupta; Aravind Reghukumar; Erta Kalanxhi; Rishiraj Bhagawati; Simran M.

This week’s digest includes an article about how cuts to U.S. international aid funding affect global health—especially in countries with limited resources. In January 2025, the United States government issued an executive order to halt foreign aid for a minimum of 90 days and a stop-work order which led to the effective dissolution of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The sudden suspension of programs, such as the President’s Malaria Initiative and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, threatens lives in countries with fragile health systems and severely limits U.S.-based global health research and programming. Without reliable funding from the United States, low- and middle-income countries must accelerate efforts to build regional capacity and promote local political will to fund national health initiatives and global health work. Read the article in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases here: https://lnkd.in/dAJDnxGc More digest here: https://lnkd.in/dvnCHeXX #GlobalHealth #HealthFunding #ForeignAid #PublicHealth #HealthEquity #UniversalHealthCoverage #HealthcareAccess

Join us for an important workshop! The GARP-India team (Christian Medical College Vellore and the One Health Trust) is hosting a session on public rollout of vaccination in special populations and its likely impact on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Speaker, Dr. Satinder Aneja, Former Director-Professor & Head of the Department of Paediatrics at Lady Hardinge Medical College - LHMC New Delhi, will explore how vaccination shields vulnerable groups from severe infections and reduces the need for antibiotics—a crucial step in combating AMR. ?? Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025 ? Time: 6:30 – 7:30 PM IST ?? Register now: https://lnkd.in/dbtqf77y #GARP #VaccinesWork #AMR #PublicHealth #InfectiousDiseases #Immunization #ElderlyHealth #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #AMR Priscilla Rupali; Jacob John; Anuj Sharma; Anurag Bhargava; Dr Santosh Taur, MD, DM, CMD; Winsley Rose; Sangeeta Sharma; Sagar Khadanga; Aravind Kuma; Muralidhar Varma; Umang Agrawal; Dr Sumit Rai; Anita Kotwani; Rajib Dasgupta; Aravind Reghukumar

?Did you know about the first-of-its-kind PhD program in Data Sciences for Global Health, offered jointly by the One Health Trust and Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani? ?? The program provides advanced training at the intersection of data science and health to train future leaders in tackling global health challenges with data-driven solutions. ?? Admissions opening soon—stay tuned for updates! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dis_XmXi #PhDAdmissions #DataScience #GlobalHealth #OneHealth #IndiaPhD

This week’s digest covers U.S aid cuts impact on Global Health, effects of social media influencers on HPV vaccine uptake in Nigeria, geographic disparities in R&D funding for human bacterial vaccines, and more. Check out our latest roundup of vital One Health research here: https://lnkd.in/dvnCHeXX #GlobalHealth #OneHealth #VaccineResearch #SocialMediaInfluencer #NigeriaHealth #USAIDCuts

It’s #WorldTBDay! This World TB Day, tune in to our One World, One Health podcast with Dr. Jeffrey Tornheim from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as he explains why tuberculosis (TB) is so hard to fight and how genomics can make that fight a little easier. TB has been around for ages, yet it remains the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. Delayed diagnosis and incomplete treatment allow the disease to worsen. It also gives TB bacteria a chance to mutate and become resistant to multiple drugs, making it harder to treat. Undiagnosed and untreated TB patients can unknowingly spread the infection, fueling new outbreaks. Dr. Tornheim’s research focuses on developing more accessible tests to detect drug-resistant TB, ensuring patients receive the right treatment immediately. Tune in as he explains how early and accurate diagnosis helps prevent the spread of these dangerous infections and saves time, money, and resources by avoiding ineffective treatments. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dzWmjnXc #EndTB #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #AMR #Tuberculosis #WorldTBDay

For World Tuberculosis Day, find out why TB is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases. Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis (TB) continues to claim over 1.25 million lives every year. In our latest One World, One Health podcast, bestselling author, John Green, discusses TB and the urgent need for accessible and affordable treatments. Drawing from his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, Green shares the story of Henry Ryder, a young man he met in Sierra Leone, to highlight the barriers to TB care, from high treatment costs to weak health systems and policy failures to poverty. Listen to this episode with captions on #YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/dScxC9rW #WorldTBDay2025 #EndTB #TuberculosisAwareness #PublicHealthMatters #GlobalHealth #HealthForAll #TBprevention #TBawareness #StopTB #CureTB #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #EverythingIsTuberculosis Penguin Random House; Partners In Health