Oklahoma City, OK
April 4, 2011. Noon. “Ray Kling Distinguished Lecture in Public Health.” University of Oklahoma, School of Public Health. Open to the public.
Events
Blog, Crude
A band-aid, not a cure: Obama's offshore drilling plan
OK, I don’t like Obama’s proposal to open up vast areas of the Atlantic coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaskan coast for offshore drilling. There isn’t much oil and gas there–not enough to feed our oil-thirst for more than a few years at best–and many of these areas are already completely despoiled and need to be protected, not ravaged once again. Oil and gas companies will certainly be happy to bid on the new blocks, nevertheless.
Articles, Blog, Disease and Ecology, Science and Politics, The Body Hunters
My review of "Shutter Island" from The Lancet
Check out my new review of Scorcese’s horror flick about a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, “Shutter Island,” just out in The Lancet.
Blog, Disease and Ecology, International Politics, Science and Politics
Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis at an all-time high
WHO reports this week that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has reached unprecedented levels worldwide: one in four in some places! Meanwhile here in the US we’re in a snit over a few modest reforms for health insurers.
Blog, Disease and Ecology, The Fever, Uncategorized
New radio interview on Radio National in Australia
I had a lovely conversation with Philip Adams of Australia’s national public radio program this morning, about malaria, the fall of Rome, and the bother of mosquito nets.
Blog, International Politics, Science and Politics, The Fever
It's finally happened. I'm an official blogger.
For Ms. Magazine. Which makes me, ahem, “Ms. Blogger.”
Blog, International Politics
We Are The World: Where is Bono?
Ok, I know this video is already appearing everywhere but here it is, again. I’ve always found these quite moving, although I’m not sure if it is the fact of seeing so many peacocks and divas putting aside their egos to be filmed singing side-by-side chorus style or the sentiment that “we are the world.”
Books, Disease and Ecology, The Fever
NYT features malaria slide show
The Malaria Consortium is putting on a 8-week exhibition of photographs featuring malaria at the UN headquarters in New York in advance of World Malaria Day on April 25. This weekend, the New York Times featured a selection of the photos, with a brief article on the history of the scourge.
Articles, Science and Politics
My review of Harrison Ford flick, "Extraordinary Measures"
Harrison Ford
The Lancet published my review of “Extraordinary Measures,” a paean to the wonders of for-profit drug development, this week.
Events
Northfield, MN
February 18, 2011. 10:50 am. “The Fever: how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years.” Lecture followed by informal discussion and book signing. Free and open to the public. Carleton College, Northfield MN