Thomas Frieden discusses lessons learned from the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Speaker:

Thomas R. Frieden, Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Presider:

Richard E. Besser, Chief Health and Medical Editor, ABC News

The Darryl G. Berhman Lecture was established in 2002 and focuses on Africa policy. The series is held in memory of Darryl Behrman, who came to the United States from South Africa and dedicated himself to improving the prospects for international peace and cooperation.

I have always been interested in ancient civilizations and have studied extensively from Egypt to Hebrew. One of the great mysteries is why all of our ancestors seem to be so concerned with powerful gods from other realms. Do such other realms exist? Did the ancients experience physical or spiritual phenomena? It remains a great mystery. However, as I read the ancient stories it became clear that perhaps our normal ways of interpreting their own experiences may not be entirely accurate. Perhaps they deserve another reading with a fresh set of eyes.

In 2014 the largest ever outbreak of Ebola virus disease took the world by surprise. This infectious disease has one of the highest case fatality rates known to medicine and most of those who become ill die. Over 11,000 people died in West Africa before the outbreak was finally brought under control. The disease dealt a devastating blow to three of the world’s poorest countries and cost an estimated $5bn globally. No drugs or vaccines were licensed or available in mid-2014.

There are several lessons to be learned. Many potential solutions have been proposed to provide vaccine stockpiles or to undertake large scale prevention vaccination against future outbreaks. Professor Adrian Hill discusses the pros and cons of these and the likelihood of any receiving the financing that could allow them to happen.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Keynote Address in Ghana on Global Food Security Crisis, on August 5, 2022.

Transcript: https://usun.usmission.gov/amb....assador-thomas-green

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Hello Displorers, Welcome back to another exciting video and thanks for watching, As you already know, it a pleasure presenting to some interesting but lesser known facts about the beautiful countries on the African continent. Today we are shihing the light on one of the most peaceful country in Africa, Ghana. officially refered to as the Republic of Ghana, Ghana is a country located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. Ghana means "Warrior King" in the Soninke language. Ghana which got its independe from Britain in 1957 has a surface area of about 238.535 km2 and a population of about 30 million people. The capital and largest city in Ghana is Accra and the official Language of the country is English but Asante, Twi and ga are also popular languages in the country.
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Ghana is a country with interesting cultures, friendly people and rich cusine and with said, her are 10 things you probably didn’t know about Ghana.

1. Ghana is the second Largest Producers of Cocoa in the World

Cocoa is the chief agricultural export of Ghana and Ghana's main cash crop. Cocoa cultivation is not native to the country; Ghana's cocoa cultivation, however, is noted within the developing world to be one of the most modeled commodities and valuables. Ghana's cocoa production grew an average of 16% between 2000–03. Cocoa has a long production cycle, far longer than many other tropical crops, and new hybrid varieties need over five years to come into production, and a further 10 to 15 years for the tree to reach its full bearing potential. In 2018/2019, Ghana is estimated to have produced about 900 thousand tons of cocoa beans, a decrease from approximately 969 thousand tons in 2016/2017. Although cocoa beans originate from South America, the majority of cocoa bean production is attributed to Africa and Ghana currently ranks as the second Cocoa producing nation in the world.

2. Ghana was the first sub-sararan country to gain independence
The decolonization of Africa took place in the mid-to-late 1950s and 1960s, with sudden and radical regime changes on the continent as colonial governments made the transition to independent states; this was often quite unorganized and marred with violence and political turmoil. In 1949, Riots broke out across the territory and while Nkrumah and other leaders ended up in prison, the event became a catalyst for the independence movement. After being released from prison, Nkrumah founded the Convention People’s Party ), which launched a mass-based campaign for independence with the slogan ‘Self Government Now!. In February of 1951, the Convention People's Party gained political power by winning 34 of 38 elected seats, including one for Nkrumah who was imprisoned at the time. London revised the Gold Coast Constitution to give Blacks a majority in the legislature in 1951. On 6 March 1957, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) became the first sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence from European colonization.

3. Ghana is the fourth most peaceful country in Ghana
According to the Global Peace Index, Ghana is ranked the fourth most peaceful country in Africa and 44 in the world.
“Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the index by New Zealand, Austria, Portugal, and Denmark. Bhutan has recorded the largest improvement of any country in the top 20, rising 43 places in the last 12 years,” the report said. Ghana is set to be peaceful due to goof leadership and political Stability.

4. Ghana has never won a gold medal at the Olympics

Ghana first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, when it was known by the colonial name of Gold Coast. The nation has sent athletes to compete in most Summer Olympic Games since then, missing the 1956 Games, boycotting the 1976 Games in protest of the participation of New Zealand (who still had sporting links with apartheid South Africa), and joining the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Ghana participated in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in Vancouver in 2010. The National Olympic Committee for Ghana was created in 1951 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee the upcoming year. Ghanaian athletes have won a total of four Olympics medals, two bronze and one silver) in boxing, and a bronze medal by the under-23 Ghana national football team in 1992.

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For much of its 164-year history, Liberia has enjoyed a special status among Africa’s nations. Founded in 1847 by freed slaves from the United States and the Caribbean, it was Africa’s first independent black republic, and people across Africa considered it both an inspiration and a beacon of hope. Nevertheless, the relationship between the African-American arrivals, known as Americo-Liberians or “Congo” people, and the many ethnic groups already present in Liberia, bore many similarities to European colonialism in the rest of Africa.
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The aim of this panel discussion is to separate “fact from fiction” about the Zika virus, especially as the public fear level rises in tandem with increasing media coverage. The discussion will center on the epidemiology of the Zika virus as well as the kinds of public health policy responses that are appropriate based on what we know about Zika from medical science and public health research. For example, does it make sense in terms of medical science to advise women not to get pregnant until 2018, as the government of El Salvador has apparently done?

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Panelists:

Brenna L. Hughes, M.D., M.Sc (Warren Alpert Medical School)

Mark Lurie, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Brown University School of Public Health)

Maria Mileno, M.D. (Warren Alpert Medical School)

Rebecca Reece, M.D., Medical Consultant, Rhode Island Department of Health’s Division of Preparedness, Response, Infectious Disease, and Emergency Medical Services

Grand Rounds: Behavioral Sequelae of Epidemics

This briefing focused on the preparations of the upcoming 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES SC74), to be held in Lyon, France, from 7 to 11 March 2022.
The meeting will bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP19) to take place in November 2022 in Panama.

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Climate change is the biggest global threat to health in the 21
st century and the defining challenge of this century. The effects are already being felt with global temperatures already 1°C above average. We know that green-house gas (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) levels significantly exceed levels in pre-industrial times and it is human activity that is responsible. Not only do the GHGs contribute to rising temperatures but this in turn contributes to rising sea levels, ocean acidification and the melting of ice caps.
The negative effects on human health are broadly divided into direct and indirect effects. The direct effects include the impact of heatwaves on mortality especially among the elderly and the direct role played by poor air quality, caused by the generation of green-house gases on respiratory health. The
largest effect of climate change on health is indirect, for example, through the impact on food security and nutrition plus the rise in infectious diseases such dengue fever and diarrheal diseases.
In 2015 the world agreed in Paris at COP 21 to limit temperature increase to 2°C and aim for 1.5°C, to generate finance to helping developing nations adapt to climate change and help them mitigate their own GHG emissions. Almost all nations agreed to reduce GHG emissions to such a level that global warming can be limited and by 2050 aim for zero emissions.
While political action continues on from Paris at various climate change negotiations we also need to realize that there are tremendous opportunities for health co-benefits from the response to climate change. Much of the benefit arises from improving air quality in the household environment and the ambient environment through pollution reducing measures in the way we cook our food, heat our homes, travel and produce energy. We also have opportunities around food production and consumption particularly in relation to addressing the biggest killers on the planet, heart disease, diabetes and some cancers associated with over-nutrition and high fat diets. In
short we need to recognize that what is good for climate is good for health and we all have a duty and responsibility to adhere to
SDG 13 and take urgent action to combat climate change and its (health) impacts.

Kate McMahon, a leading scholar in New England’s complicity in the Atlantic Slave Trade, will share her latest research that implicates Maine ship captains, shipbuilding families, and the direct and indirect ways Maine’s shipbuilding industry perpetuated an American economy built on stolen labor.

How can we make sense of the scary reality we are all know living? Where do pandemics come from? And why are they occurring more frequently? On this special episode, Bloomberg’s Jason Gale talks to some of the world’s most experienced pandemic experts to get their insights on how situations like COVID-19 can happen.

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Dr. Shewayish shows how public health is an essential component of economic prosperity. This is at no time a more poignant argument than in the midst of the current pandemic, where it is clear that the key to economic recovery is to vanquish the coronavirus outbreak. As we have seen in the Spring and early Summer of 2020, infectious diseases can affect a large swath of the business sector, from agriculture, to manufacturing, transportation, hospitality/travel, and many others. Some industries may have a business model that is incompatible with an infection outbreak. Others may ride the wave of increased demand that occurs as a result of the disease's impact on a society. A disease outbreak may also cause individuals to withdraw from the economy due to fear, job loss, or reduced services. Investing in public health is an endeavor that pays countless dividends. As the pandemic shows, societies around the world need to do more to invest in the health of their populations and in preparing for the next outbreak that may impact us.

In the fifth of the DIT-UKGCC webinar series, Lindsey Gilbert-Crouch engages Mark Brooks, Director, Mark Brooks Education Ltd.; Grace Wood, Education Advisor- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Ghana; Steven McGill, Senior Education Advisor- Cambridge Partnership for Education; and Chikodi Onyemerela, Director of Programmes and Partnerships- British Council, in a discussion to enlighten UK companies about the realities of doing business in Ghana in the education sector and to highlight some of the opportunities in the sector.

00:59 Message by Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa, Emma-Wade Smith
05:23 Grace Wood – FCDO Education Advisor
25:54 Mark Brooks – Director: Mark Brooks Education Ltd.
41:33 Chikodi Onyemerela- Director Programmes and Partnerships – British Council
01:05:10 Steven McGill- Senior Education Advisor- Cambridge Partnership for Education
01:14:20 Linda Odour-Noah- Education Partnerships Group
01:20:17 Q&A

Africana Studies & Research Center invites the campus and community to an informal panel discussion of the new film Black Panther.

What does the film's blockbuster success tell us about this moment in the U.S. and the world?

How does the film challenge Hollywood's representations of Black power?

What are the real-world historical precedents for this Afro-futurist fantasy?

Hersman asks us to shed outdated notions of Africa as a unified place plagued by starvation and war. Between mobile phone innovations like M-PESA, social networking like MXit and entrepreneurial spaces like Maker Faire Africa, Hersman sees innovation and entrepreneurship exploding within some of Africa's—and the world's—fastest growing economies.