In an interview with NPR, Craig Spencer discussed the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and his personal experience surviving Ebola.
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Research on the policies, institutions and global forces that shape development, opportunity and well-being.
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Research on the policies, institutions and global forces that shape development, opportunity and well-being.
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In an interview with Salon, Craig Spencer said the rapid U.S. response to Rwanda's 2024 Marburg outbreak helped contain the disease and contrasted with slower responses to recent Ebola outbreaks.
In a Boston Globe article, Adam Levine said that treating the Sudan strain of Ebola without an approved vaccine or treatment puts health officials in a position similar to the early stages of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
In a recent NBC News article, Craig Spencer discussed the need for urgent international action as the Ebola outbreak could become the deadliest on record.
Craig Spencer wrote in The New York Times that cuts to U.S. global health infrastructure have weakened the world’s ability to respond to the growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.
Craig Spencer was interviewed on PBS NewsHour about the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda and his experience surviving Ebola.
Craig Spencer discussed the challenges doctors are facing during the Ebola outbreak in Africa in an interview with NPR after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
With an emphasis on rigorous, data-driven analysis, the new master of public policy program provides students with topical knowledge and tools to tackle today’s most pressing policy problems.
Having spent time at the Watson School’s Africa Initiative as a visiting research fellow in 2023, Chikezirim “Chike” Nwoke was eager to return as a postdoctoral research associate after completing his Ph.D. at Carleton University.
Patrick Heller argues in a recent paper that democratic governance and stronger state institutions have helped countries in the Global South expand rights-based welfare systems despite colonial and economic constraints.
Ashutosh Varshney wrote in The Print that the defeat of India’s constitutional amendment bill protected federal balance by preventing a shift in parliamentary power that could have disadvantaged southern states and destabilized national unity.
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Ieva Jusionyte named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
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