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    Community and Solidarity in the Age of Coronavirus
    Samuel J Ujewe, PhD.
    • May 18, 2020
    • 5 min

    Community and Solidarity in the Age of Coronavirus

    More than any other recent global health crises, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to embrace a new sense of global...
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    Local knowledge is invaluable for infectious disease preparedness and response in Africa
    Kalina Kamenova
    • Oct 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Local knowledge is invaluable for infectious disease preparedness and response in Africa

    A new book by Genomics4S Research Fellow Dr. Samuel Ujewe and colleagues scrutinizes the socio-cultural dimensions of emerging infectious...
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    The Rise in Measles Outbreaks Prompts us to Take Communitarian Values Seriously
    Samuel J Ujewe, PhD.
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Rise in Measles Outbreaks Prompts us to Take Communitarian Values Seriously

    Child vaccination is not a matter of personal choice or preference; it is a parental responsibility for protecting all children in the...
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    The world is coming one-step closer to the release of gene drive mosquitoes into the environment
    Hannah Horvath
    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 4 min

    The world is coming one-step closer to the release of gene drive mosquitoes into the environment

    Gene drive mosquitoes could end malaria, but many believe they are the making of a modern day Jurassic Park. Recent news about...
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    Vaccine hesitancy becomes a top global health threat
    Nikkita Mistry
    • Feb 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    Vaccine hesitancy becomes a top global health threat

    The anti-vaccination movement has succeeded in creating a new global health emergency right alongside the existing threats of influenza...
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    Genomics and Public Engagement in the Global South: Echoes from the 2018 World Health Summit
    Kalina Kamenova
    • Oct 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Genomics and Public Engagement in the Global South: Echoes from the 2018 World Health Summit

    Blog post by Samuel J Ujewe, PhD Africa is about to become a testing ground for recent innovations in genomic medicine, yet the voices...
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