I am told that my work before the accident pertained to the AIDS pandemic; I was a treatment activist, founder of several early AIDS organizations and a photojournalist, as well as an artist.
At some point, in preparing for the 2006 flu pandemic, I began to realize that I was coping with anxiety through a process that the Italian psychologist Maria Miceli has called "hypothetical analytical planning".
During the time of the AIDS pandemic, I had a lot of friends in the theater who were dying.
At the height of the recent "swine flu" pandemic, I was teaching at Franklin K. Lane high school on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.
As a human rights activist focused on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, I know it is my duty to advocate for policies around the world that help ensure safety for women and girls, so they can be healthy, educated, productive members of their families and communities.
When an emerging influenza virus appears in humans, an early concern is whether the virus has the potential to cause a devastating pandemic, i.e., the global spread of an infection killing a substantial number of people.
(IM1) … in (the) next pandemic I will be more thoughtful, and not be so rushed into taking action.
During the (2009) swine flu pandemic, I probably was in the first batch vaccinated, but now I may be in the last.
The philosophical justification for these policies was not made at the time when the new rules were adopted by the FDA, and for a pandemic I suggest they do not go far enough.
Nine items (e.g. "If I have problems using equipment in an influenza pandemic, I am confident that I will have someone to ask for help") are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).
Having shown why some regulatory oversight is necessary in conditions of a pandemic, I next explore how therapeutic access to investigational new drugs might be further expanded beyond the policies of expedited development or parallel track without abandoning the need for good evidence of safety.
