Global Economic Leaders Gathering in U.S. Confront Trump’s New World Order

The I.M.F.’s latest World Economic Outlook projects that global output will slow to 2.8 percent this year from 3.3 percent in 2024. That is half a percentage point lower than the fund’s ... Read More

Global pandemic risk is growing – and the world isn’t ready, WHO says - CNN

The chances of a global pandemic are growing – and we are all dangerously under prepared, according to a new report published Wednesday. The panel of international health experts and officials ... Read More

‘Wake Up!’ Global Elites Confront a World Full of Risks at Davos

That's the rallying cry of Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, imploring the global elite at this week's World Economic Forum to be vigilant as an almost ... Read More

The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic - Foreign Affairs

THE AVIAN THREAT. Although it has never caused a human pandemic, the H5N1 virus has been on the public health radar for decades. It was first identified in late 1996, when a new influenza virus, ... Read More

Infectious Disease Is the Next Big Global Security Risk | TIME

The Global Virome Project, which has been championed by leading infectious-disease experts around the world, is still almost entirely aspirational–though so was the Human Genome Project when it ... Read More

Medical Journals Call Climate Change the ‘Greatest Threat to Global Public Health’ (Published 2021) - The New York Times

In an editorial published in more than 200 medical and health journals worldwide, the authors declared a 1.5-degree-Celsius rise in global temperatures the “greatest threat to global public ... Read More