As well as battling international viruses, she is also trying to champion improvements in maternal care, HIV and Aids care, malaria, and all of our most pressing diseases.
Yet, oral health is one of the most ignored areas of health care in the developing world, often low on the list of priorities in light of other more pressing diseases or emergency needs.
BD's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases.
While tackling a single disease issue is laudable, what about providing funding support to the international institutions that tackle, holistically, the most pressing infectious disease challenges?
Healthcare policy will not introduce stringent control measures because of a lack of precise estimates of the public health impact of antimicrobial resistance and the priority of other more pressing infectious disease problems such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
For example, synergy in the development of pathogen genomics programmes across animal and human health sectors will be needed to deliver a 'one-health' approach to tackling many of the most pressing zoonotic disease threats, such as avian influenza and the spread of antimicrobial resistance from livestock to humans, as well as the more commonplace but persistent issue of foodborne illnesses.
Only by examining individual presences relative to the much larger political, economic, ideological, and social forces (many of which have created environments that frame the very problems we aim to eliminate) can we effectively address pressing issues of disease management [ 19].
The world may be fixated on Zika virus, but in Angola, there's a more pressing infectious disease spread by mosquitos to worry about.
In heart disease, one pressing problem is how to decide which young and middle-aged adults would benefit from cholesterol-lowering statins to reduce the risk of a first heart attack, said Dr. Sekar Kathiresan, a genetics researcher who is director of preventive cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Understanding such global differences in disease becomes pressing, as development transforms human demography and mobility causing key changes to transmission patterns (Hollingsworth et al., 2007), and to the environment in which the disease propagates.
Prevention programmes and policies are in their infancy in this region (2) and struggle to achieve priority because of the more established and pressing needs of infectious disease control; the recent outbreaks of Avian and H1N1 influenza are immediate examples (3).
