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Lohmann Brown chickens stand in a barn at Meadow Haven Farm, a certified organic family run farm, in Sheffield, Illinois.

Bird Flu Is Raising Red Flags Among Health Officials

January 14, 2025

Last week the Louisiana Department of Health announced the first U.S. death from H5N1. Samples taken from the individual suggest that the virus has begun to adapt to infect humans better.

Health Security

Infectious Diseases

Medicine

Bloomberg School

Bloomberg School Researchers Support First Blood Center to Receive Full FDA Approval to Provide Convalescent Plasma for Patients Who Are Immunocompromised

January 13, 2025

Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, and David Sullivan, MD, recommend exploring using convalescent plasma at scale in public health preparedness planning for future disease outbreaks and pandemics.

COVID-19

Infectious Diseases

Medicine

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Student Spotlight: Caitlin Rempson

January 07, 2025

Caitlin Rempson's time in the MSPH program has brought her opportunities worldwide, from providing career support to young adults in Baltimore, to researching the intersection of stigma, violence, and depression in youth living with HIV in Zambia.

Infectious Diseases

International Health

Child and Adolescent Health

Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

A doctor, standing and looking over a chart, attends to a patient seated on a cot.

A Promising Fight Against a Silent Killer

January 04, 2025

Infectious Diseases

International Health

Medicine

Global Health NOW

A collage of images representing public health in 2024, including a woman pushing an older woman in a wheelchair, a pair of hands with mpox, a woman wiping her brow in the heat, a bottle of pills spilling, a woman protesting for abortion rights, a dairy cow, a child filling a water glass, a pile of condoms, a police officer putting up caution tape, a child with measles, a covid particle, and a road sign that says "uncertainty ahead."

Public Health in 2024: Historic Firsts, Unwelcome Comebacks, and Rays of Hope

December 18, 2024

As we head into 2025—a year certain to bring great change—we reflect on 2024’s public health headlines.

Reproductive and Sexual Health

Substance Use Disorder

Vaccines

Bloomberg School

Michelle Morse, NYC’s acting health commissioner

Michelle Morse: How to Protect the Health of 8 Million New Yorkers

December 16, 2024

Michelle Morse, New York City’s acting health commissioner, shares her public health priorities for the residents of the largest city in the U.S.—and how her global health experience influences her work today.

Health Policy

Infectious Diseases

Global Health NOW

Infectious Diseases Faculty Experts

Looking for prominent public health experts in the field of infectious diseases? They’re here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Amesh Adalja

Assistant Professor

- Adjunct

George Dimopoulos

Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

George Dimopoulos, PhD, MBA, studies vector-borne diseases and how mosquitoes can be rendered incapable of transmitting human pathogens.

Andrew Stanley Pekosz

Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Andy Pekosz, PhD, investigates the replication and disease potential of respiratory viruses including influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging viruses.

Infectious Diseases

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Bird Flu Is Raising Red Flags Among Health Officials

Bloomberg School Researchers Support First Blood Center to Receive Full FDA Approval to Provide Convalescent Plasma for Patients Who Are Immunocompromised

Student Spotlight: Caitlin Rempson

A Promising Fight Against a Silent Killer

Public Health in 2024: Historic Firsts, Unwelcome Comebacks, and Rays of Hope

Michelle Morse: How to Protect the Health of 8 Million New Yorkers

Infectious Diseases Faculty Experts

Amesh Adalja

George Dimopoulos

Andrew Stanley Pekosz

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