Better health begins with ideas
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Two and a half years after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, governments and local leaders are still wrangling the virus. Ebenezer Obadare, Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), explains the important role that religion and religious leaders have played in shaping public attitudes in Nigeria toward the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination, in general. Meanwhile, Luciana Borio, senior fellow for global health at CFR, examines why the Joe Biden administration's response to the monkeypox outbreak is repeating many of the mistakes that the United States made on testing and vaccination in the COVID-19 crisis.
The next contributor shines a light on U.S. health disparities, noting that improvements in the life expectancy for Native American people have stagnated in the last twenty years, but hope is on the horizon: indigenous advocates are taking matters into their own hands to improve community health outcomes. Wrapping up the week, we quiz experts, staff, and friends on the books they're reading this summer.
As always, thank you for reading, and be well. —Thomas J. Bollyky and Mary Brophy Marcus, Editors
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In Nigeria, the pandemic set up a political battlefield between Christian religious leaders and the state
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