Africa's One Health Initiative, New Hampshire's COVID Fatalities, and Youth-Driven Change in India
July 14, 2023
Editor's Note
Kicking off this week, Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Ahmed Ogwell Ouma and Dr. Yewande Alimi outline their organization's One Health approach to tackling zoonotic diseases. Africa has borne a disproportionate burden of recent outbreaks of zoonotic disease—viruses jumping from animals to humans—due to climate change, globalization of trade and unsustainable growth of agriculture. The Africa CDC and the African Union are promoting a new method of tackling the problem: a new public health order.
Jonathan Ballard, chief medical officer at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, responds to our earlier article on the performance of the Granite State in the COVID-19 pandemic. New Hampshire's relative success was rooted in a localized response, an idiosyncratic, but evidenced-based approach to protecting the most vulnerable, and high levels of social trust, which Ballard theorizes is the product of the state's culture and leadership.
Our final contributors are Sai Mandlik and Tanya Dikshit from the 10to19: Dasra Adolescents Collaborative, an India-based cooperative that enables youth-driven health promotion that country's children and young adults.
As always, thank you for reading.—Thomas J. Bollyky, Editor
