Browsing by Author "Bloom, Barry"

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    • Evolution, Safety, and Highly Pathogenic Influenza Viruses 

      Lipsitch, Marc; Plotkin, J. B.; Simonsen, L.; Bloom, Barry R. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012)
      Experience with influenza has shown that predictions of virus phenotype or fitness from nucleotide sequence are imperfect and that predicting the timing and course of evolution is extremely difficult. Such uncertainty means ...

    • The Global Health System: Actors, Norms, and Expectations in Transition 

      Szlezák, Nicole A; Bloom, Barry R.; Jamison, Dean T.; Keusch, Gerald T.; Michaud, Catherine M.; Moon, Suerie; Clark, William (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      The article discusses the changing quality of global health institutions. It cites the factors that affect the change including variety of civil society, nongovernmental organizations, and private firms, changing relationships ...

    • The Global Health System: Institutions in a Time of Transition 

      Clark, William; Szlezak, Nicole Alexandra; Moon, Suerie; Bloom, Barry R.; Keusch, Gerald T.; Michaud, Catherine M.; Jamison, Dean T.; Frenk, Julio; Kilama, Wen L. (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-04-04)
      The global health system is in a period of rapid transition, with an upsurge of funds and greater political recognition, a broader range of health challenges, many new actors, and the rules, norms and expectations that ...

    • The Global Health System: Lessons for a Stronger Institutional Framework 

      Moon, Suerie; Szlezák, Nicole A.; Michaud, Catherine M.; Jamison, Dean T.; Keusch, Gerald T.; Clark, William; Bloom, Barry R. (Public Library of Science, 2010)

    • Rethinking Biosafety in Research on Potential Pandemic Pathogens 

      Lipsitch, Marc; Bloom, Barry R. (American Society for Microbiology, 2012)
      If accidentally released, mammalian-transmissible influenza A/H5N1 viruses could pose a greater threat to public health than possibly any other infectious agent currently under study in laboratories, because of such viruses' ...