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Better health begins with ideas
Editors' Note This week Think Global Health visits Malawi, where the coronavirus comes amid election chaos and countrywide poverty. One feature finds lessons for future U.S. crisis responses in Cuba's complicated history of medical diplomacy, and another essay observes that the Community Health Influencers, Promoters and Services program can be a game changer for disease surveillance and response in Nigeria. Finally, one contributor explores how the pig pandemics of the past demonstrate the need for a "one health" approach to animal, human, and plant disease threats of the future. We are always seeking new contributors and voices for our site, so please share our submissions page with colleagues.—Thomas J. Bollyky and Jason Socrates Bardi, Editors
This Week's Highlights
Coronavirus in Malawi by Allison Daniel and Fanuel Meckson Bickton Shutdowns reversed amid an upcoming election, other disease threats, and more than half the population living in poverty
Medical Diplomacy—Lessons From Cuba by Hannah Todd COVID-19 is a chance to design more efficient, equitable, and ethical responses to international health care crises
Shifting Front Lines in West Africa by Evaborhene Aghogho Nelson Leveraging community health promoters to protect vulnerable populations against COVID- 19 and other threats in Nigeria
Stat of the Week
85,000 People, 17 Ventilators According to one projection, 483,000 Malawians will require hospital treatment, including 85,000 needing critical care. As of early June, the entire country had only seventeen ventilators and twenty-five intensive care beds. Only a quarter of Malawi's hospitals have reliable electricity, and nearly half have no hand soap.
Recommended Feature
Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats by Ravensara S. Travillian COVID-19 is scary, and so are disease outbreaks in animals—which cause great economic devastation and disrupt human lives
What We're Reading The Pandemic and Political Order (Foreign Affairs) U.S. Work With WHO Continues, Weeks After Trump's Vow to Quit (Wall Street Journal) A Mad Scramble to Stock Millions of Malaria Pills, Likely for Nothing (New York Times) Patients With Underlying Conditions Were 12 Times as Likely to Die of COVID-19 as Otherwise Healthy People, CDC Finds (Washington Post) Global Trade Order Looks Wobbly in the New Pandemic Reality (Bloomberg) Audio Interview: A Look at SARS-CoV-2 Transmission (New England Journal of Medicine)
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COVID-19 in Malawi, a potential game changer for Nigeria, and what pig pandemics do to the economy in Think Global Health this week
June 19, 2020
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