From Our September 2026 Connections Newsletter

• Opinion | The Tragic Fallacy of Global Health Reform [The Lancet]
• As AI Fears Mount, Gates Hopes to Make It a Force for Good in Global South [Devex Pro]
• Commentary | Progress Against The World’s Deadliest Infectious Diseases Is On A Knife-Edge [Forbes]
• Opinion | From Nutrition to Vaccines, Here’s What MAHA Policies Fail to Deliver [MedPage Today]
• Measuring the Global Impact of PEPFAR Disruptions [AmFAR]
• Tens of Millions of People Fail to Get Humanitarian Aid as Global System Crumbles [The Guardian]
• Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- & Middle-Income Countries in 2025 [KFF]
• How INGOs Are Surviving in a New World [Devex]
• The Search for New Money Is Reshaping Impact Investing [Devex Pro]
• Can the World Really Develop a Vaccine in 100 Days? [Devex]
• Opinion | How The Current Ebola Outbreak Might Reshape American Foreign Aid [Health Affairs]
• With Landmark 10-Year Investment, IHME Will Deliver More Local, Timely Health Evidence Worldwide [IHME]
• The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci [The Atlantic]
• Opinion | The US Needs a 9/11 Commission-Style Independent Body to Investigate Covid Response [STAT]
• Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Burying Science & Health Care in Paperwork [STAT]
• Overdose Mortality from a Global Perspective: Why Are Rates Falling? [Commonwealth Fund]
• Americans Trust Their Doctors When It Comes to Public Health, but Not FDA, CDC [CIDRAP]
• Pennsylvania Officials Report Fourth Measles Death, as Outbreak Grows [New York Times]
• Fighting Measles Is Expensive. See What It Cost to Contain 10 Cases. [Washington Post]
• More than 1,000 Children Dead in Bangladesh Measles Outbreak [BBC]
• World Has No Realistic Path to Meet 1.5ºC Warming Target, UN Declares [Health Policy Watch]
• New Research Reveals Wild Mice as Reservoirs for Antibiotic Resistance [News Medical]
• What to Know About the First mRNA-Based Flu Shot Approved by the FDA [Washington Post]
• US Disease Tracker Launches to Strengthen Monitoring of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases [Johns Hopkins]
• An HIV Vaccine Is Within Reach [Vox]
• GLP-1 Studies Suggest Benefits Extend to Infectious Diseases [MedPage Today]
• FDA Approves Four Updated COVID Shots Targeting XFG Variant [MedPage Today]
• Nearly 1.7M Deaths Linked to Second-Hand Smoke in 2023, Study Finds [France 24]
• Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA & Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak [Wired]
• Opinion | I Led the FDA’s Food Safety & Nutrition Center. Here’s What People Are Missing About the Cyclospora Outbreak [STAT]
• Photo Essay: By a Dark, Dangerous Highway in Nepal, Aid Workers Fired by USAID Cuts Turn to Sex Work [AP News]
• Drought May Have Driven Brazil’s First Yellow Fever Outbreak in Nearly 80 Years [Science]
• Antimicrobial Resistance Threatens Bangladesh’s Coasts [Think Global Health]
• Is Mpox Here to Stay? CDC Study Says Virus Is Likely Becoming Endemic [CIDRAP]
• Malawi Conducts Mass Vaccinations After Detecting a Polio Case [Health Policy Watch]
• Collapsing Child Vaccination in South Africa ‘A Public Health Emergency’ [The Telegraph]
• Opinion | An African Plan to Train … & Retain … Health Workers [Global Health NOW]
• How Cervical Cancer Screening Became a PEPFAR Casualty [Devex Pro]
• New Maps Reveal Massive Gaps in Access to Affordable Birth Control across the US [NPR]
• Funding Cuts Are Forcing Dozens of Health Clinics in Sudan to Close, Aid Groups Warn [AP News]
• Opinion | After 100 Days of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak, It Can Be Stopped. Here’s How [The Guardian]
• African Bundibugyo Ebolavirus Vaccine Candidate to Be Advanced to Clinical Trials [CEPI]
• The Doctor Pressuring African Leaders to Own the Ebola Response [New York Times]
• UN Sees Some Progress in Congo Ebola Fight, but Too Early to Call Peak [Reuters]
• Nepal’s Flood Relief Workers Feel the Pain of Trump’s Cuts to USAID [New York Times]
• Save the Children Aid for 1.5M in Need Wiped Out by Iran War Oil Shock [The Guardian]
• How Afghan Women Are Rebuilding Reproductive Health Care [Reasons to Be Cheerful]
• Listen. Mark Dybul Says This Was Never the Plan for PEPFAR [Devex Pro]