Equity & Health

Eli Lilly reported that in a late-stage trial, its next-generation obesity drug led to weight loss approaching the effectiveness seen with bariatric surgery trib.al/dzeVK0I

Preservative food additives, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases: the NutriNet-Santé study academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva…

CDC Operational Guidance for Investigating Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted Malaria — United States, 2026 | MMWR cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

Public Health Arrival Restrictions and Enhanced Ebola Screening travel.state.gov/en/internation…

There is no Ebola vaccine for this outbreak and won’t be one soon. Here’s why. - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/health/2026/05…

Conference: Biosecurity at the frontier Wednesday 10 June 2026  Imperial College London imperial.ac.uk/about/strategi…

Hantavirus in an international maritime setting: natural history, infection control and clinical management of patients in hospital Friday 22 May 2026, 13:00–14:00 CEST who.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Analysis of past Ebola outbreaks suggests 54% death rate, identifies hemorrhage as key risk factor cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/analysis…

Stopping Outbreaks At Source: Pandemic Preparedness Stumbles At Local Level healthpolicy-watch.news/stopping-outbr…

The Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Suicide mortality among adolescents and young adults aged 10–24 years in the Americas, 2000–2021: an analysis using the WHO Global Health Estimates thelancet.com/journals/lanam…

Visualizing the Ebola outbreak in maps and charts cnn.com/health/maps-eb…

Preventing Teen Car Crashes and Deaths | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/preventin…

Primary health care–oriented reforms: the political economy dynamics underlying health-system shifts across nine countries academic.oup.com/heapol/article…

The most important thing to know about the Ebola epidemic in DRC is this: bringing it under control will rely almost entirely on health workers winning the TRUST of local communities. This may sound dull, even woke, when compared to talk of experimental vaccines etc. But it’s true, not to mention hugely difficult, resource intensive and dangerous. The logic is this: you have one of the most frightening infectious diseases spreading in a huge uneducated population that has been subjected to horrific poverty and violence for many years. Yet there are no vaccines or special treatments. The only way to stop it is to break the chains of transmission and this requires the full cooperation of the population. Winning trust won’t be easy. More than 2m have been displaced by a conflict that has frequently been marked with mass rapes and village massacres — violence that seemingly occurs without rhyme or reason. There is no understanding of science or politics, and superstition and paranoia understandably fill the gap. This is what hundreds of local health workers employed by the Red Cross, WHO, MSF and others are walking into. To slow and eventually end the outbreak they must convince people with symptoms to come forward so they can be isolated away from their families and treated by people clad head to toe in PPE. Even in death, of which there will be much, they must explain that victims must be separated from their loved ones and forego burial and grieving rites that are central to their faith and understanding. When we think about the Ebola outbreak in DRC we should think about what we would do in such a situation. How we would win the trust of terrified families were we charged with doing so. We should think too about the resources that are needed to pay for and support those putting their lives on the line on our behalf. As things stand, the money needed for the emergency response is only about 40% funded and yet it must last for many months, probably years, if the epidemic is to be successfully brought under control.

Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health–Lancet Commission on health, conflict, and forced displacement: health in a world of crises and impunity thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Ebola Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda | HAN | CDC cdc.gov/han/php/notice…

Situation report of #Ebola disease outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo #DRC and #Uganda - data as of 18 May 2026: 🔴 A total of 528 suspected cases, including 132 deaths have been reported from both countries. Of the 12 suspected cases reported from Uganda, two were confirmed through laboratory testing, while the rest tested negative. A total of 668 contacts have so far been identified, including 541 in DRC and 127 in Uganda, although contact follow-up remains challenging in some areas of DRC due to insecurity and movement restrictions. Numbers are rapidly changing as surveillance, contact tracing and laboratory testing are being scaled up. 🔴 Alert management and case investigations are being scaled up in the affected countries. 🔴 In DRC, a total of 38 experts (20 from Ministry of Health and 18 from WHO) have been deployed from Kinshasa to Bunia to support response operations. 🔴 Over 17 tons of emergency supplies were shipped to DRC, incl. personal protective equipment, medical supplies, tents, stretchers and medicines. 🔴 Laboratory capacity is being expanded, with deployment of lab teams and mobile laboratories to affected areas in DRC to increase local testing and diagnostic activities. 🔴 WHO, together with Alliance for International Medical Action @ALIMA_ORG, @MSF, @UNmigration and @ifrc, is supporting the setup of treatment facilities in affected areas. 🔴 Risk communications and community engagement is also being scaled up, to make sure communities are actively including in the response. Read more bit.ly/4tJrkU0

United States to Fund Establishment of Up to 50 Ebola Response Clinics - United States Department of State state.gov/releases/offic…

Multidimensional Poverty in Least Developed Countries: Levels, Patterns and Progress ophi.org.uk/publications/a…