by Annie Sparrow | Jun 9, 2016 | Articles, Infectious Threats, Tuberculosis
Article initially published in The New York Review on June 9, 2016 and written by Annie Sparrow. Reviewed: Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 271 pp., $26.00 Pandemics—the...
by Annie Sparrow | May 6, 2016 | Articles, Attacks on Healthcare, Conflict, Weaponisation of Healthcare
Interview initially published in the Global Observatory on May 6, 2016 and written by Els Debuf. Ongoing attacks on medical facilities in places such as Syria saw the United Nations Security Council adopt a resolution this week aimed at protecting healthcare...
by Annie Sparrow | Mar 29, 2016 | Articles, Conflict, Politics of Aid, Syria
Syrian Army soldiers monitor residents who said they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the besieged town as they wait with their belongings after an aid convoy entered Madaya, Syria, January 14, 2016.Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Article initially...
by Annie Sparrow | Feb 8, 2016 | Articles, Infectious Threats
Though not a direct cause, conflict is a major driver of infectious disease, according to Annie Sparrow, Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine. “For example, there was no polio in Iraq for eight years during that war, but it reappeared two years after...
by Annie Sparrow | Feb 1, 2016 | Articles, Conflict, Politics of Aid, Syria
A girl, who was injured by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, stands at the entrance of her house in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, November 22, 2015.Bassam Khabieh / Reuters Article initially...
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