Michael Osterholm

Nov 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Michael Osterholm |Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Vaccines save lives and reduce health care costs. Those are facts. They have been critical public health tools for more than 200 years. Their hallmark achievement was against smallpox, a frequently disfiguring and often fatal disease that killed over 300 million people in the 20th century before a worldwide vaccination campaign eradicated it in 1980. Thanks to a vaccine, smallpox virus no longer exists outside the confines of a few secure laboratories.

Aug 15, 2024 | almendron.com | Mark Olshaker |Michael Osterholm

Less than five years after the outbreak of COVID-19, the world remains vulnerable to another pandemic. Over the past five months, a mutated strain of the H5N1 influenza virus detected in dairy cattle poses a potential risk for a pandemic-causing virus. Yet governments and international organizations have done far too little to prepare for such a scenario, despite the lessons they should have learned from the global battle with COVID-19.

Aug 15, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Michael Osterholm |Mark Olshaker

Less than five years after the outbreak of COVID-19, the world remains vulnerable to another pandemic. Over the past five months, a mutated strain of the H5N1 influenza virus detected in dairy cattle poses a potential risk for a pandemic-causing virus. Yet governments and international organizations have done far too little to prepare for such a scenario, despite the lessons they should have learned from the global battle with COVID-19.

Sep 20, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Michael Osterholm |Colin Powell |Michael Doran |Andrew J. Nathan

James F. Hoge, Jr., one of the great editors of this magazine, died yesterday at the age of 87. When Hoge took charge of Foreign Affairs in 1992, it was a sleepy quarterly at risk of obsolescence. By the time he stepped down from the job 18 years later, he had doubled the magazine’s circulation, increased its publication frequency to six times a year, and launched its website, setting us on our current course and ensuring our success into a second century.

Jun 10, 2023 | ensegundos.com.pa | Ezekiel J. Emanuel |Luciana Borio |Rick Bright |Michael Osterholm

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Luciana Borio, Rick Bright, Michael T. Osterholm, Jill Jim y David Michaels fueron miembros de la Junta Asesora de la Transición COVID Biden-Harris, nombrada por el gobierno entonces entrante de Biden en noviembre de 2020 con el fin de brindar asesoría en torno a la respuesta del gobierno ante una pandemia. LA REFLEXIÓN HONESTA ES BÁSICA PARA ASEGURAR QUE LA RESPUESTA DEL PAÍS A LA SIGUIENTE PANDEMIA SEA MEJOR.