Amanda McClelland

Amanda McClelland is the senior vice president of Prevent Epidemics and Resolve to Save Lives. She is a leading voice in global public health education—both in times of war and peace. McClelland is a registered nurse who has served as a frontline health worker during the West Africa Ebola outbreak and is today a leader in educating public health systems around the world on how to mount a full spectrum response to epidemics and pandemics.

A view of a corner of the kitchen with cheerfully painted blue walls, dishes left on the counter, and white lace curtain fluttering in the wind — abandoned by residents amid the Russian war on Ukraine. The Kyiv region, March 2022.
Environment

Confronting an Invisible Enemy in Ukraine

by Amanda McClelland

The insidious march of infectious diseases during war 

Cooking jackets are laid down and displayed as part of a COVID-19 protest by workers of the cafe and restaurant business demanding more help from the government in Brussels, Belgium, on May 7, 2020. The photo shows an array of shirts, mostly white but a few black ones, laid out over thousands of square feet of a lawn. It's a striking photo. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Poverty

A Call for Global Solidarity

by Amanda McClelland

If COVID-19 has taught anything, it's that we are one world—and a world where many places need money and technical help

Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City's Bronx borough hold a protest demanding N95 masks and other critical personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic on April 2, 2020. The photo shows a number of nurses lined up holding placards. One of them plays off the term PPE and spells out "Please Protect Everyone." REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid
Governance

All Focus Must Turn to Health Care Workers Now

by Amanda McClelland

To save ourselves we need to protect the people who risk everything and sacrifice their own safety to save everyone else

Image shows a graph with severity versus transmissibility and several pandemics plotted.
Governance

How to Save Lives in a COVID-19 Pandemic

by Cyrus Shahpar, Amanda McClelland, Tom Frieden

Global preparedness is critical to saving lives and sparing health, societal, and economic impacts—now and in the future