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    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.
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    The Only Way to Eliminate Polio

    Florence Gyembuzie Wongnaah argues that the virus will be eradicated only when the world stops using the oral vaccine.
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    Remembering the Pandemic

    William A. Haseltine explains why future preparedness requires commemorating the millions of lives claimed by COVID-19.
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    Global Health Institutions Need Africa

    Ahmed Ogwell Ouma urges international organizations to make room at the table for the continent’s interests.
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    Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

    Atiya Aabroo explains why Pakistan is tapping its female frontline staff to help design policy solutions.
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    A New Weapon Against Malaria

    Cristina Donini & Doreen Akiyo Yomoah tout the promise of monoclonal antibodies in the fight against a disease that still kills millions of people.
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    Innovating Against Injustice in Health Care

    Yvonne Greenstreet calls on biotech companies to embrace strategies that tackle all determinants of access and outcomes.
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    Mitigating Mozambique’s Humanitarian Nightmare

    Jon Hyman & Shannon Kellman urge the United States to focus on replacing health services destroyed by the Islamist insurgency.
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    What Will It Take to Prevent Future Pandemics?

    William A. Haseltine calls for new detection and surveillance methods focusing on the four essential properties of zoonosis.

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    Revisiting the Behavioral Revolution in Economics

    Antara Haldar assesses the legacy of the intellectual challenge to the view that rational self-interest guides our actions.
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    New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions

    Yanis Varoufakis shows how an AI-driven biomedical breakthrough could rob workers of what little power they have left.
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    Globalization’s Warring Narratives

    Harold James examines the analytical disagreements that are hampering management of an unavoidable phenomenon.
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    The Digital Economy’s New Monetary Imperative

    Piroska Nagy Mohácsi

    In a rapidly digitalizing world, central banks are staring down a future in which they may lack the tools necessary to manage crises, and in which they may no longer be able to protect their monetary sovereignty. They should recognize that digital currency is a source of institutional salvation.

    thinks governments must embrace central bank digital currencies or risk a fundamental loss of control.
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    Europe’s Climate Quandary

    Jean Pisani-Ferry assesses the inevitable trade-offs the European Union must confront in achieving its clean-energy targets.
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    Governing the Unknown

    Kaushik Basu suggests a few principles to guide policymakers as they try to keep up with rapidly advancing technologies.
  7. oyebanji2_ PIUS UTOMI EKPEIAFP via Getty Images_lassa fever PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images

    Fast-Tracking a Lassa Fever Vaccine

    Oyeronke Oyebanji outlines what West African governments can learn from the development and distribution of the COVID-19 jab.
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    Climate Science Beats Climate Fatalism

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, et al. show that the more ambitious 1.5º target for global warming is still feasible – and more necessary than ever.
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    Turkey’s Pragmatic Islamist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami expects Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s latest electoral victory to have little impact on Turkish foreign policy.

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