Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) News and Resources

As I stepped onto a plane to attend the 79th Annual World Health Assembly last week, I learned with a sense of déjà vu that the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the newest Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. In Geneva, my conversations with global health leaders gravitated to the most alarming elements of the outbreak: […]

Introduction In just two decades, the world has faced a relentless barrage of deadly infectious disease outbreaks— SARS in 2002, H1N1 in 2009, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2016, and COVID-19 in 2020. Each crisis has cost lives, destabilized economies, and exposed vulnerabilities in global health systems. The COVID-19 pandemic alone resulted in over 15 million excess deaths and an […]

Background Information The increasing frequency and severity of infectious disease outbreaks—driven by factors such as climate change, new methods of land use, urbanization, and global interconnectedness—underscore the urgent need for robust pandemic risk assessment frameworks. Future pandemics, which will likely be exacerbated by complex anthropogenic factors and inadequate systems for infectious disease surveillance and response, pose a substantial and underappreciated […]

Introduction Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the general public may have been unaware of the growing health care worker burnout crisis. However, during the pandemic, it was difficult to miss media reports of increasing levels of burnout, depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among health care professionals caring for seriously ill patients infected with a novel disease (Gregorio, 2020; Farrar, 2021). […]