Katie M Susong | PhD

The Global Dengue Observatory is live. It estimates current dengue cases across 88 countries by correcting for reporting delays and filling gaps using seasonal models. globaldengueobservatory.org

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

This is the article that we need to keep reminding people about…

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

First autochthonous transmission of dengue 🦟 in 2024 just reported in Texas

102 travel related cases
1 death

Most cases since 2002

#IDSky

dshs.state.tx.us/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: #CDC reports it has confirmed that a child in California tested positive for #H5N1. The child had no known exposures to infected animals or poultry. The child had mild illness and is recovering.
I discuss in this video what cases like this mean, and why they are a bit unsettling.

Passport And Visa Privileges In Global Health The field of global health is extraordinarily unequal, with privileged people and institutions in the global North dominating all aspects of global health. One form of privilege, the passports and vis...

Global health can never be global because the global north is truly a “walled world” locking out everyone else

www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...