Steve Meshnick, professor of epidemiology, mentor, musician and mensch
Dr. Steve Meshnick has had a profound impact on infectious disease research and on many, many people's lives.
Topic: Global
Public Health
Coronavirus keeps on
It’s been six weeks since a new type of coronavirus, now named SARS-CoV-2 by the Coronavirus Study Group, was identified in China as the cause of an outbreak of severe, contagious respiratory disease. Once again, the world is learning just how important public health is to life as we know it.
Public Health
Scrutiny of Chinese American scientists in US research institutions reflects lack of judgment
For a while, we’ve been hearing stories about government inquiries into the actions of some scientists, especially Chinese and Chinese American researchers, amidst concerns that they are threats to United States science and society.
Public Health
Decrying anti-Semitism and all violence motivated by hate
Six months to the day after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, and on the last day of Passover, a horrific shooting at Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday has us again grieving the senseless loss of precious life, terrible injuries and untold trauma. We condemn the anti-Semitism at the root of this unspeakable...
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
Lamenting devastating attacks in Sri Lanka
As many were celebrating Easter Sunday and Passover under a beautiful blue Carolina sky and elsewhere, a horrible tragedy unfolded halfway around the world, in Sri Lanka. We are saddened and sickened at the scale of the tragedy in Sri Lanka, where more than 300 people died and another 500 were injured when churches and...
Higher Ed
Responding to Anti-Semitism
On Friday, April 12, we learned about a video from a musical performance at a three-day "Conflict over Gaza" conference held on campus in March 2019. We co-sponsored the conference, just as we co-sponsor many campus conferences for which we are not responsible (i.e., don't participate in planning; don't see the speaker list or agenda).
Government
Please vote as if your life depends on it - in many countries, it does
Vote I have only a few words today, but they are about something that is important to the future of our democracy. Please vote. Vote for the candidates of your choice and on various propositions. If you are a U.S. citizen, see it as a responsibility of citizenship and a way to keep democracy alive...
Government
US is evidence outlier on breastfeeding
Note: This post includes special comments from Ginger Sall, humanitarian, advocate, member of our School’s Advisory Council and board member for multiple organizations. Stunning US policy shifts Our inboxes are overflowing with digital outrage about the U.S. government’s latest actions on breastfeeding. There is a huge body of high-quality, peer-reviewed, credible evidence for the benefits...
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity
Whose family values are guiding the president?
While the President signed an executive order on immigration yesterday, ending his administration’s policy of separating parents and children at the border for detention, the crisis is not over. An estimated 2,342 migrant children, to whom the new order does not apply, are being detained with no clear plan or timeline for reuniting them with...
Environment
The President should watch John Oliver!
A lesson in climate change I’ve heard some brilliant faculty members talk about climate change, read many articles about it in Science magazine and other peer-reviewed journals (e.g., this Nature Geoscience article) as the data have been painstakingly collected, accumulated and analyzed, and listened to and talked with many really smart people on both sides...
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