Nahid Bhadelia

Nov 6, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Nahid Bhadelia

An Improved Alert System for Emerging Infectious Diseases The US health care system faces a growing challenge from emerging and reemerging pathogens. As the current H5N1 outbreak illustrates, this risk exists along a spectrum. However, public health alerts about new infectious disease health threats tend to be binary—either low risk or a crisis. These alerts are inadequate because they do not account for uncertainty or provide actionable guidance needed if the situation evolves.

Jun 18, 2024 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Lawrence O. Gostin |Drew Endy |Nahid Bhadelia |Shalini Singaravelu

When the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated in 1980, many technologies used to study, alter, or create pathogens were new, considered science fiction, or had yet to be imagined. In the years since, as these technologies have improved or been created, they have become essential to developing new tools against smallpox and understanding similar health threats.

May 8, 2024 | iolaregister.com | Jennifer Nuzzo |Lauren Sauer |Nahid Bhadelia

The discovery of bird flu virus particles in milk has moved the federal government to take more aggressive action to prevent the further spread of H5N1 on dairy farms. The Agriculture Department has rightly issued new testing recommendations meant to keep the virus from spreading across state lines. But this additional testing will do little to address the primary threat that H5N1 poses to humans: the infection of farmworkers.

May 8, 2024 | iolaregister.com | Jennifer Nuzzo |Lauren Sauer |Nahid Bhadelia

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May 7, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Jennifer Nuzzo |Lauren Sauer |Nahid Bhadelia

Dairy cows have been contracting the H5N1 virus. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters)CommentSaveJennifer B. Nuzzo is a professor of epidemiology and the director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. Lauren Sauer is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the director of the Special Pathogen Research Network.