This Nigerian doctor has a tough new job: Stopping the next pandemic before it strikes
2 years, 11 months ago

This Nigerian doctor has a tough new job: Stopping the next pandemic before it strikes

NPR  

This Nigerian doctor has a tough new job: Stopping the next pandemic before it strikes Enlarge this image toggle caption Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Chikwe Ihekweazu has taken on one of the toughest jobs in global health — leader of the new World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The goal is to improve WHO's ability "to forecast, detect, assess and respond to outbreaks that threaten people worldwide," says Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's Health Emergency Programme. "We're seeing one country, South Africa, doing all the right things in terms of sharing data, and then it receives really a backlash of varied decisions by different countries using the same data." "The difficulty is not so much on how to collect and analyze the data – though that's not going to be easy," he says.

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Nigeria says it is ready and more than capable of dealing with coronavirus
4 years, 10 months ago

Nigeria says it is ready and more than capable of dealing with coronavirus

CNN  

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