World Health Organization

  • New Ebola outbreaks in the Congo

    BySmile Tongkaw

    It seems that things are not getting any easier in the year 2020. Earlier this week, #Ebola was the number one trending topic on Twitter in the United States. On June 1, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusthe, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), tweeted, “A new #Ebola outbreak detected in western #DRC, near Mbandaka, Équateur…

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    MESA COVID-19 Q&A

    ByAlex Su

    On May 14th, a Q/A session on COVID-19 hosted by MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, and Achievement) was held via Zoom. It featured Professor M. Elizabeth ‘Betz’ Halloran, the Director of the Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases (CIDID), based at Fred Hutch and the founder and Director of the Summer Institute in Statistics…