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Safeguarding and Advancing SRHR in Universal Health Coverage: On the Road to the 2023 UN High-Level Meeting on UHC

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Anti-gender movements and the COVID-19 pandemic have deepened existing challenges to realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Universal health coverage can help overcome these barriers, but only with an intersectional lens that centers girls and women in all their identities. The discussion will highlight why strengthened prioritization of SRHR must happen now, as

7th Annual Intelligence Community Academic Research Program

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The Intelligence Community Academic Research Symposium (ICARS) is the showcase for unclassified academic research supported by the Intelligence Community. This event provides the opportunity for academic researchers, advisors, and members of the IC to exchange ideas and engage with fellow experts from diverse scientific backgrounds. Through integration and cooperation, the IC Academic Research Symposium encourages

Book Event: To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa – Emily Bass

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CSIS Global Health Policy Center will host a virtual event featuring Emily Bass, veteran AIDS activist, historian and journalist, and author of  To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa on Oct 13 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT. She’ll be joined in conversation by Jennifer Kates, Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health & HIV Policy at KFF; Chris

Complications of COVID-19

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Dr. Colleen Kraft, ASM President Elect, leads an in-depth discussion on how vaccination and therapeutics have been used to address the long-term complications of COVID-19. This free event is brought to you by the 2021 ASM Clinical Virology Symposium (CVS), one of a 4-part CVS Online: SARS-CoV-2 Webinar Series featuring leading experts in the field

Improving Diversity of the Genomics Workforce: A Workshop

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The Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health will host a virtual public workshop that will examine the current state of diversity (e.g., racial, ethnic) of the genetics and genomics workforce, structural issues that have contributed to diversity challenges, and potential steps forward. Workshop discussions may address topics such as the impact of racism on the

Respiratory Protection for the Public and Workers without Respiratory Protection Programs at their Workplaces

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This is the eighth virtual meeting of a consensus study focused on respiratory protection for the public and workers without respiratory protection programs. During the public portion of this meeting, the committee will explore current processes and systems for evaluating infectious agents transmissible by inhalation routes and determining the need for public use of respiratory

COVID-19 Vaccines: A Global Experts’ Summit

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Hear from researchers and public health experts on present and future scenarios as they explore the changing landscape of the virus, including the Delta variant's impact on children, and the latest in vaccine availability, hesitancy and boosters. This is the last in a series of three virtual events, hosted by Florida International University in partnership

Poxvirus Research After Smallpox Eradication: New Findings With An Old Vaccine

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In 1980 smallpox was declared eradicated after a global vaccination campaign. Today, only two labs in the world retain variola virus, the cause of smallpox, one in the USA and one in Russia – and the World Health Assembly has recommended these virus stocks be destroyed when essential research with variola virus is complete. Professor