Posts in Global Health
Vaccine Nationalism and Building Equity in Global Health: A Conversation with Dr. Ingrid Katz

HHPR Associate Editor Christopher Li interviewed Dr. Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS, Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Faculty Director at the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an affiliated scientist at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital about vaccine nationalism in our present moment as well as building equity into global health.

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Planetary Defense, Deep-Space Healthcare, and the Future of Medicine and Humanity: A Conversation With Robert Thirsk

The next global crisis may not be another viral outbreak. It could be an asteroid strike, nuclear accident, act of terrorism, financial depression, major earthquake, or solar storm. While the likelihood of any one of these events happening in a given year is small, its impact when it does happen could again be catastrophic. In the spirit of building back better, I advocate for investment in the kind of emergency preparedness and response training we do in the human spaceflight program. The benefits would be significant.

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