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Former Nigeria CDC leader Chikwe Ihekweazu talks with Nature about the COVID crisis, and strengthening global response to future public-health emergencies.
The health-policy specialist who grew up in the White House is using her training and connections to convince world leaders to help make vaccines accessible to all nations.
Rick Bright exposed former US president Donald Trump’s political meddling. Now he’s spearheading a privately funded initiative to rapidly contain coronavirus variants and outbreaks of other pathogens.
Although the US president travelled to several states while possibly infected, the task would prevent COVID spread, says response specialist Emily Wroe.
Chemist Martin Burke developed a pioneering coronavirus test for the University of Illinois — but it didn’t stop a spike in student infections on campus.
Analytical chemist Najat Saliba describes the part scientists could play as investigations into the cause of Beirut’s devastating ammonium nitrate blast get under way.
Peter Daszak, president of the research organization EcoHealth Alliance, describes how he has been caught in political cross-hairs over his partnership with a virology lab in China.