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Response to NIST AI 6001, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile

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In response

An evaluation of the impact of social and structural determinants of health on forgone care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Baltimore, Maryland

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PLoS ONE
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Article

Evidence suggests that reductions in healthcare utilization, including forgone care, during the COVID-19 pandemic may be contributing towards excess morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to describe individual and community-level correlates of forgone care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Authors
Diane Meyer
Kelly Lowensen
Nancy Perrin
Ayana Moore
Cheryl R. Himmelfarb
Alexandra K. Mueller
Jessica N. LaRicci
Woudase Gallo
Adam P. Bocek
Jason E. Farley

Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis

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Lancet
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Article

2024 is the year of international climate change litigation, with accountability for the protection of health elevated to global and regional courts and tribunals. On April 9, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that Switzerland violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women, known as the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, who had brought the case against Switzerland for failing to meet its past greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and set future GHG targets.

Authors
David Patterson
Farhang Tahzib
Benjamin Mason Meier
Marlies Hesselman
Wang Chenguang
Lawrence O. Gostin

A pandemic agreement is within reach

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Science
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Article

At the end of May, 194 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet for the World Health Assembly. Negotiations underway now will determine whether they vote then to adopt a pandemic agreement. For the past 2 years, discussions have focused on articulating essential components of a robust and equitable architecture for pandemic preparedness and response. Despite this, talks have failed to produce sufficient consensus on a detailed draft, prompting the intergovernmental negotiating body to propose a “streamlined” version.

Integrating safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility principles into the U.S. bioeconomy

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mSphere
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Article

Bioindustrial manufacturing is undergoing rapid expansion and investment and is seen as integral to nations’ economic progress. Ensuring that bioindustrial manufacturing benefits society as the field expands is of critical, urgent importance. To better understand the industry’s ethical trajectory and to shape policy, we explored the views of biotechnology leaders on four aspects of ethical and social responsibility—safety, security, social responsibility, and sustainability—what we have termed “4S principles.” We identified policy actions governments and other stakeholders may take to maximize societal benefits in industrial biotechnology.

Authors
John Getz
Ryan Morhard

Response to NTIA RFC on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights

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In response
Authors
Doni Bloomfield

Public role in research oversight

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Journal of Virology
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In response

Rasmussen et al. argue that “increasing oversight across virology or all microbe research would represent a misdirection of resources and would fail to provide a commensurate increase in safety or security” and “harm surveillance, antiviral discovery, monitoring for resistance to antivirals and vaccines, and other critical efforts.” On the contrary, a strengthened version of the recommendations of the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity (NSABB) is crucial for the success of microbiological science. Implementing these recommendations would reduce the risks of a deliberate or accidental pandemic, while using precious research resources efficiently, restoring trust in science, strengthening US leadership in biosecurity and biosafety, and safeguarding the biomedical research enterprise, as ASM itself has said.

Authors
Marc Lipsitch
David A. Relman

Learnings from COVID-19 for future respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness: a summary of the literature

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Report

A scoping literature review of learnings from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was commissioned by WHO to inform operational priorities for future respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness. The learnings are grouped according to WHO’s subsystems for health emergency preparedness, response and resilience. Key takeaway messages include: 1) Preparedness works; 2) Health is everyone’s business; 3) No one is safe until everyone is safe; and 4) Response must be agile and adaptive. The review will support pandemic planners at all levels to develop and update preparedness and response plans.

Cover, Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Rumors

Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Rumors

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Report

The Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Rumors provides guidance on ways public health and medical professionals can set themselves up for success, make decisions on when they need to act to address rumors, choose which actions and approaches might be useful to their audiences and information needs, and evaluate how their efforts are working.

Authors
Annie Sundelson
Emily O’Donnell-Pazderka
Amelia M. Jamison
The Integration of Primary Care, Public Health, and Community-Based Organizations: A Federal Policy Analysis

The Integration of Primary Care, Public Health, and Community-Based Organizations: A Federal Policy Analysis

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Report

This report calls out the urgent need to strengthen and build resilience in primary care (PC) whilst building cross-sector collaboration between public health (PH) and community-based organizations (CBOs).

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The need to document lessons learnt and exemplary practices of maintaining essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

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BMJ Global Health
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Article

During the COVID-19 pandemic, countries often needed to divert their human, financial and material resources away from existing health programmes to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. There are numerous reports of global inequities in access to critical care and medical countermeasures exacerbated by the pandemic as a consequence of chronically underfunded and weakened public health systems.

Authors
Chris Troeger
Marc Trotochaud
Moytrayee Guha

Response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Request for Information (RFI) Related to NIST's Assignments Under Sections 4.1, 4.5 and 11 of the Executive Order Concerning Artificial Intelligence

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In response
Authors
Jaspreet Pannu
Doni Bloomfield
Dissecting Pandemic-Prone Viral Families Volume 2: The Paramyxoviridae

Dissecting Pandemic-Prone Viral Families Volume 2: The Paramyxoviridae

Publication Type
Report

Paramyxoviridae is a large viral family that contains many once common and well-known human pathogens, such as measles and mumps, as well as other pathogens that pose concerns for their potential to cause epidemic or pandemic disease.1

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