2 February, 2021 at 8:21 AM
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WATCH ON YOUTUBE On August 19, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a webinar on our YouTube channel titled “Being Well & Staying Safe: Daily Life in a COVID-19 World.” The webinar, hosted by Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam, featured a panel of infectious diseases […]
Governments might be able to prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to a new analysis by an international team of scientists and economists. In the paper, published July 24 in Science, the authors argue that […]
On July 21, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted a webinar featuring Prof. Muhammad H. Zaman, where he discussed his newest book, Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens. The book explores the rise of antibiotic-resistant diseases and what we must do to address this […]
Ziming Xuan, an Associate Professor in BU’s School of Public Health and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a developmental study to explore associations between alcohol use and HIV among married couples in India. Given rising rates of alcohol consumption and HIV […]
Pablo Suarez, a Pardee Center Visiting Research Fellow and Associate Director for Research and Innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, recently designed and facilitated a “cartoonathon” exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on the future of humanitarian work. The event, hosted by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Solferino Academy, included over […]
Richard Primack, a professor of biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored an article published in The Conversation on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability to conduct field work. In the article, Prof. Primack reflects on the necessary yet costly measures […]
Kate Mitchell, a doctoral candidate at the BU School of Public Health and a 2019 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored an article on maternal newborn health (MNH) care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic in the journal Health and Human Rights. In the article, the […]
Min Ye, an Associate Professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been appointed the first Rosenberg Institute Scholar at Suffolk University’s Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. As part of the appointment, Prof. Ye will write a research […]
Muhammad Zaman, a professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. Awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fellowship recognizes individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability […]
Neta C. Crawford, Professor and Chair of the BU Department of Political Science and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently co-authored an op-ed in The Hill comparing the coronavirus response to fighting a war. In the article, titled “Fighting a virus with the wrong tools,” Prof. Crawford and Prof. Catherine Lutz, co-founders and co-directors of […]