How to save millions of lives—including your own—with global health leader and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden.
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We Know How Many Died. We Don’t Always Know Why.
Last month I wrote about Rwanda, where a village leader reports a death by phone within minutes and trained staff later interview the family to find a probable cause. The United States registers nearly every death, so the national death cou...
Plague is stoppable. The next health threat may not be.
The word plague is scary.
Centuries ago, the Black Death killed tens of millions of people and changed the course of history. Plague still kills people around the world, and the word still evokes catastrophe.
New fears of plague surfaced...
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Pass the Salt? No, Switch It.
There’s a shaker on almost every kitchen table and restaurant counter in the world. Although it might not seem like it, that shaker is the single most dangerous item on the table. But that doesn’t have to be the case. If we improve what’s i...
To Make Every Life Count, Count Every Life
The National Health Intelligence Center in Rwanda
When someone dies in Rwanda, the village leader uses a basic phone to send the national ID number of the person who died, the date of death, and whether the death occurred in a health facil...
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President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. Former CDC Director and New York City health commissioner. Focused on partnering with communities around the world to save lives.
Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, author, and the Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the Bursky School of Public Health at Washington University in St Louis
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