Associate Professor in Global Health Law at Johns Hopkins BSPH - Senior Scholar, Center for Health Security - Director (Policy), Institute for Planetary Health International law, infectious disease outbreaks, pandemics, equity, solidarity & justice.
"Months before the DRC officially declared its latest Ebola outbreak on 15 May, the disease was already sowing fear and death in Mongbwalu, a gold mining town in Ituri province, an unpublished analysis by three researchers suggests." www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detectedA remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report sayswww.science.orgThis isn’t a novel US foreign policy agenda: it’s just more in the open. Immediately after the ICC Rome Statute was adopted, the Bush Admin negotiated more than 100 bilateral immunity deals. I point this out because any future reckoning of the US & international law is much bigger than one term.
Wagatwe Wanjukioh my god
another win from mamdani: this is indeed the ideal banana ripeness level and i will not be moved on this point
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen
I will never, ever understand Americans’ approach and response to guns. No explanation about the policy landscape, money in politics, fear, or rights makes any actual sense. It’s a failure that goes to the heart of the republic as a society. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Mass shooting at Seattle Center leaves 3 dead, toddler woundedGunshots rang out around 6 p.m. at Seattle Center, where thousands of people had gathered for the Bite of Seattle food festival.www.seattletimes.comnot only occasionally, not only CAH, and not only charged: - Georges Ruggiu RTLM DJ: 12 years The ICTR also convicted other journos & media execs: - Ferdinand Nahimana RTLM founder: life imprisonment - Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza RTLM exec: 35 years - Hassan Ngeze Kangura newspaper owner: life
iucounuoccasionally reminded that they charged the DJs on Radio Rwanda with crimes against humanity
No one talks about how the hardest part of multidisciplinary collaboration is recognizing and respecting expertise. Natural scientists and social scientists have different approaches. Whether Quant, Qual or Doctrinal sometimes very similar concepts like causation have very different definitions.
Anthony Michael KreisIn my historical methods training, I was always taught “we start with a historical question.” I would never use “I’m testing a hypothesis” in my work. I might have a working theory or a working hypothesis, but I’m certainly never *testing* it. That’s ripe for cherry-picked, law office history.
Today at an emergency session at UN HQ in New York, International Criminal Court Member States voted to dismiss Prosecutor Karim Khan on the basis of allegations of sexual harassment that a majority have deemed amount to serious breach of duty. news.un.org/en/story/202...
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan dismissedMember States of the International Criminal Court dismissed its Prosecutor Karim Khan following disciplinary proceedings related to widely reported sexual misconduct allegations at an emergency sessio...news.un.orgKenya’s High Court was set to convene yesterday on the US Ebola quarantine facility but I’ve not heard any update. Kenya Sec of Health Duale denies 7 US doctors are quarantined in Kenya, saying they are following the court’s order, but the US says otherwise. @alexip718.com have you heard anything?
The Kenya TimesAden Duale hard-pressed to explain reports about Ebola-exposed American workers under quarantine in Kenya. Did Duale disobey the court after narrowly escaping jail? Here are the details: thekenyatimes.com/7kww
First nursery for babies of Ebola victims opens. 135 children in Ituri province have been orphaned by the outbreak. With so much focus on numbers and their accuracy, definitions, rates, and proportions, we so readily lose sight of echoed impacts of outbreaks. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
First nursery for babies of Ebola victims opens in CongoThe first UNICEF-supported Ebola nursery opens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting young children whose parents have contracted the disease while the number of cases intensifies.www.abc.net.au7 US aid workers in Kenya Ebola quarantine facility I have so many questions: 1. Will the High Court hold Kenyan govt officials in contempt? 2. Are high risk exposures separated? 3. What's the care plan if someone tests positive? Not "army cots in tents"? ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban, says aid groupAid workers are first known people to quarantine at facility, which sparked huge opposition in Kenyawww.theguardian.comMy three year old’s foresight to get Dada an indoor hydroponic setup for Fathers Day will never be topped www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/h...
The brilliant Safura Abdool Karim on how Africa's continental response as a model for shaping global health: solidarity over mercenary self-interest. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Africa’s response to this Ebola outbreak shows how to shape global healthCountries elsewhere must learn from the continent’s example and combat disease outbreaks by working together, not by closing borders.www.nature.com"It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?"
Sahil KapurMike Johnson, asked about Maine shooting by ICE officer, says he hasn’t been briefed and doesn’t know much: “I know that there was a tragic shooting. And I’m not going to comment on it because I don’t know. And you guys can mock me for not knowing that. I worked about 22 hours in the last few days.”
pretty incredible, and telling, that these studies are yet to be covered in several leading Australian news outlets. www.science.org/content/arti...
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millionsTwo papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believedwww.science.orgRecurrent Ebola outbreaks: reframing spillover from pathogen-centred narratives to ecological disruption, structural vulnerability, and proactive preparedness Great piece from Nachegaa, Tegally, Mavianc, Muyembe-Tamfume & Zumlag in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Recurrent Ebola outbreaks: reframing spillover from pathogen-centred narratives to ecological disruption, structural vulnerability, and proactive preparednessAs the Democratic Republic of the Congo confronts its 17th recorded Ebola disease
outbreak, global health discourse has again reached for familiar militarised language,
such as killer virus, deadly en...www.thelancet.com“We warn readers that the content of this study might be distressing” This is the first time I’ve read such a line on a research paper and it is accurate: directly tying a significant outbreak to British colonization. It also (unsurprisingly) substantiates Indigenous histories of disease spread.
Andrew CurryLink to original study (now published) here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...