Recently Pakistan’s tribal areas made the headlines again. This time the issue is health care access, or refusal thereof to be more specific. According to a report parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow workers to administer polio vaccines. This is blamed mainly on the fatwas (religious edicts) issued by the local… [Read more…]
February 20, 2007
In April of last year, Gilbert H. Burnham and Leslie F. Roberts, A&S ’92 (PhD), began finalizing plans for some new epidemiology. There was nothing notable in that; Burnham and Roberts, at the time both researchers at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, were epidemiologists. What was notable was the subject. They would not… [Read more…]
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March 11, 2007
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