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  • Reducing the Risk of Pandemic Disease Threats Through Multisectoral Action

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    Covid-19  //  Guest Contributor  //  November 24, 2020  //  By Dara Carr
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    “No single individual, discipline, sector or ministry can preempt and solve complex health problems.”

    — Rwanda One Health Steering Committee1

    The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of multisectoral action to contain and mitigate the effects of the virus. Presently, during crisis conditions or “war time,” in the language of outbreak experts, multisectoral efforts—including actions traversing health, education, labor, finance and other sectors—are readily apparent. But when policymakers perceive crises have passed, during so-called “peacetime,” governance structures that enable multisectoral collaboration tend to diminish or languish.

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  • It’s Time for Scenario Planners and Enterprise Risk Managers to Join Forces

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    Covid-19  //  Guest Contributor  //  November 9, 2020  //  By Steven Gale
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    Scenario planning—a powerful method for communicating and examining uncertainty—is once again in vogue as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the growing interest in this approach, however, its use is still limited, deployed predominately by the intelligence, business, and military communities.

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  • Dr. Raj Panjabi on the Importance of Community-Based Health Systems in Pandemic Response

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    Africa in Transition  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 30, 2020  //  By Matthew Gallagher

    Panjabi Podcast Thumbnail (1)If there’s anything about responding to an epidemic, it’s that speed matters, and so does investing in people closest to the problem, said Dr. Raj Panjabi, Assistant Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and CEO of Last Mile Health, in this week’s Friday Podcast. The latter, he said, is the root of resilience.

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  • Building Bridges: What It Will Take to Develop a Safe, Effective COVID-19 Vaccine

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  October 23, 2020  //  By Sara Matthews
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    “I think we have to remember not to forget what these diseases did in the past and to actively collaborate, to work with each other, and to communicate well that vaccines work,” said Dr. Paul Duprex, Director of Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research and Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at a recent Wilson Center event on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), March of Dimes, and the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation.

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  • The Resurgence of Indigenous Midwifery in Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 16, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid

    podcast photos 4x3 (1)Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, the risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than for white women, while in Australia the risk is four and a half times higher. This week’s Friday Podcast highlights remarks from a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives about Indigenous midwifery.

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  • The Impacts of Climate Change on Alaska Native Maternal Health (Part 1 of 2)

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    Dot-Mom  //  Navigating the Poles  //  October 14, 2020  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan, Marisol Maddox, Bethany Johnson & Michaela Stith
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    Each year, 700 women in the United States die as a result of pregnancy-related complications. In fact, the United States has the highest maternal mortality ratio of all high-income countries—16.7 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. For Indigenous/Alaskan Native women, that number is even higher: Indigenous/Alaska Natives are 2.3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white counterparts. While recent years have seen growing national attention to the U.S. maternal mortality crisis, research and advocacy for Indigenous peoples’ maternal health in the United States has been limited. This research gap includes the Alaskan Native peoples—Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and multiple Diné tribes.

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  • Knowledge Keepers: Why We Need Indigenous Midwives

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  October 7, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 as The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. In celebration, the Maternal Health Initiative is publishing a series of articles to recognize the importance of these two professions towards improving maternal and women’s health outcomes and to illuminate the impact made by both nurses and midwives the world over.

    “We need more Indigenous midwives,” said Claire Dion Fletcher, an Indigenous Potawatomi-Lenape Registered Midwife and co-chair of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM), at a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives about Indigenous midwifery. Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than white women, while in Australia the risk is four and a half times higher.

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  • The Global Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  September 16, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    “As we face a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 800,000 people as of right now around the world, we certainly have to recognize the particular impacts that that has had on women and girls and their lives,” said Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), at a recent event hosted by CARE and UNFPA about the global impact of COVID-19 on women and girls. While women make up 70-80 percent of frontline healthcare workers globally, they have also been disproportionately affected during the pandemic by increased rates of gender-based violence, lack of access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, and economic and food insecurity.

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