Michael Leedom

Michael Leedom is an emergency physician based in Baltimore, Maryland, and a fellow in the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Journalism and Health Impact at the University of Toronto.

Joan Akullo, project coordinator for Medical Drones Project, loads a drone for delivery of medication, leaving from Bufumira sub-county to Kusu Village.
Urbanization

Drones Deliver Humanitarian Aid in Africa

by Michael Leedom

Unmanned aerial vehicles are transforming last-mile health-care deliveries within sub-Saharan Africa

Genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquito
Environment

America’s Battle Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases

by Michael Leedom

Locally transmitted malaria cases in the United States spark a need for more innovative control strategies