By Annette Onyango Introduction According to the United Nations, the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) invasion has become, in the horn of Africa, extremely alarming, with farmers across East Africa facing food shortages as the locusts consume both crops in the fields and in storage.[1] The countries most affected include Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, with Kenya experiencing the worst outbreak in […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic – Using Mediation and Collaboration to manage the issues By Charalee Graydon (EUCLID) We know the rules, stay home! Practice social distancing and wash your hands frequently for at least 20 seconds. Articles write about vaccines being developed but it is noted it may take months to have them ready for use by humans.[1] That requires […]
Note on the Covid19 Pandemic and the Caribbean By Winston Dookeran, EUCLID Under-Secretary-General, Former Minister of Finance, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs March 30th 2020 In 2005, the Presidents of China and the US prepared and signed a Pandemic Response Protocol, later to be subscribed by 88 countries. It enumerated 10 Core Principles. At the World Economic Forum Annual meeting […]
These are called zoonotic diseases: they have “jumped” from animals to people: the new coronavirus likely originated in bats or pangolin. Note: More than 75 percent of emerging diseases originate in animals. There is broad agreement that Ebola was transmitted from fruit bats in West Africa (probably Sierre Leone) and has killed more than 13,500 people in multiple outbreaks. The […]
The EUCLID faculty team is continuing to monitor the ongoing developments of the AFM (acute flaccid myelitis) outbreak in the United States, including seasonality. A major academic paper has been drafted and peer-reviewed but remains on hold as of posting (04/2019). The US Centers for Disease Control (aka CDC) has not as of yet released sufficient data to assess various […]
The EUCLID School of Global Health and Bioethics is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Vijay Kumar Chattu as Research Professor and Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Vijay Kumar Chattu is a licensed medical doctor (registered in India and Trinidad & Tobago) & internationally accredited global health specialist with an MBBS, MD (Community Medicine) from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram […]
The EUCLID faculty team is continuing to monitor the ongoing developments of the microcephaly situation which is the cause of the current concern with the spread and evolution of the Zika virus. After a time of intense research as well as understandable hesitation, the US Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have stated that there is sufficient […]
The profile, certifications and research of Dr Anke Wanger, EUCLID faculty attached to the School of Global Health and Bioethics, can be found on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankewanger
The bioethics papers of Pr Laurent Cleenewerck, EUCLID faculty and coordinator attached to the School of Global Health and Bioethics, can be found on MedLine / NIH PubMed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=cleenewerck
The research papers of Dr Honoré Kabwebwe Mitonga, EUCLID faculty attached to the School of Global Health and Bioethics, can be found on his ResearchGate page at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Honore_Mitonga