The MENTOR Initiative: championing an integrated response to dengue outbreaks worldwide
Dengue fever is the world’s fastest growing infectious disease. Figures from the WHO estimate that “3.9 billion people in 128 countries...
Dengue in Europe: a disease of the tropics on the move?
For European citizens, thinking about dengue fever as a threat to public health in Europe might seem irrelevant… Indeed, the World Health...
Chronic shortage of funding thwarts Kenya’s dengue control efforts
Until an outbreak at the Kenyan coast, dengue fever had been a disease that scientists did not lose sleep about. A 2011 outbreak in...
Dr. Chin-Hui Yang (Taiwan Centers for Disease Control): tackling dengue in Taiwan
Dr. Chin-Hui Yang is Director of the Division of Acute Infectious Diseases at the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control. After several...
Modelling dengue fever: IBM Health Corps & the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
In November 2016, IBM Health Corps and the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control partnered together to help fight dengue fever through...
Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai (Institut Pasteur): genetic susceptibility to dengue
Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai Institut Pasteur Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases In the age of the 24 hour news-cycle we are all...
Tiina Greig (Norway & Finland): the journey to overcoming severe dengue and ME
In 2015, Tiina Greig, a microbiologist with an interest in tropical diseases, was travelling in some of Thailand's most idyllic...
Emma Harrison (UK): from a mosquito bite to learning to walk again
In 2014, aged 25, British artist Emma Harrison embarked on an adventure to Myanmar with the project of setting up an exciting furniture...
