Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo is quoted in this article.

Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo is quoted in this article.

NPR's A Martinez asks Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo of Brown University why there have been more measles cases this year so far than in all of last year, and what can be done to stop the resurgence.

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Multiple conflicts ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are undermining efforts to rein in a worsening Ebola outbreak and risk fueling the spread of both instability and disease beyond the country's borders.

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Africa is significantly better prepared for a pandemic than it was five years ago, a major review of the continent’s health security has found.

The review, which tracked dozens of health metrics across the continent, found that local and international investments in Africa’s health sector since the pandemic have “paid off.”

Published by the Brown University Pandemic Centre and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a US non-profit, the report is the third of its kind and provides an update on two previous reviews from 2019 and 2021.

The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year.

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A new Africa-specific health security index finds strong gains in laboratories and disease surveillance since 2021, but biosecurity, biosafety and systems for delivering vaccines and treatments continue to lag.

African countries have spent the past five years building laboratories, expanding disease surveillance and improving outbreak detection. Now, the continent’s first health security assessment cautions that the next stage of preparedness will depend on making those investments safer, better connected and more resilient.

A new Africa Health Security Index released Wednesday found the continent’s average preparedness score has risen nearly 30 percent in five years to 41.5 out of 100, but its biosecurity and biosafety scores remain critically low even as an Ebola outbreak spreads across the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

New Africa Health Security Index reveals how rising threats and health emergencies, including Central Africa’s current Ebola outbreak, could erode progress

Against the backdrop of an Ebola disease outbreak, the new Africa Health Security (AHS) Index, released today, reveals significant gaps in critical health infrastructure despite important progress in health security capacity in recent years.

The world’s capacity to control the disease has improved in the past decade, but only because of dedicated investment and coordination.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. It will likely pass the second largest, an outbreak in the same region of Congo from 2018 to 2020. Already, the current outbreak has grown past 2,000 cases and to 754 deaths; according to the World Health Organization, it is likely to reach more than 8,000 cases and 1,400 deaths by mid-September. The CDC’s worst-case scenario projects more than 20,000 cases by mid-August.

Washington, D.C., July 16, 2026 — The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the Brown University Pandemic Center and Air Club released today Advancing Healthy Indoor Air: Five Leading Policy Models from Around the World, a new report highlighting a rapidly expanding wave of indoor air quality (IAQ) policy innovation across the globe. Drawing lessons from nearly 160 policies spanning 40 countries, the report identifies five leading policy models that governments are using to improve indoor air quality and offers practical guidance for policymakers seeking to strengthen public health, resilience and economic performance.