Research Library

This study examines the correlation between visceral leishmaniasis and civil unrest in East African nations.

As Zika virus infection spreads across the Latin American and Caribbean region and into the southern United States, we can expect to see thousands of additional children born with microcephaly and more newborns or older infants with signs of more subtle but significant neurologic defects and developmental delays.

Using charts, figures and graphs of this survey data originally created by former career intelligence analyst Brian C. Bennett and updated by the Drug Policy Program, this issue brief offers an overview of drug use trends in America over the last four decades. The brief is part of a larger online project chronicling the pattern of the use and abuse of individual drugs over (in most cases) more than 40 years.

In this journal article, Peter J. Hotez, fellow in disease and poverty, examines reasons to believe that Zika virus could spread to vulnerable areas of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

This blog post examines four factors of globalization that make Texas a “ground zero” for new infectious tropical diseases and outlines steps the state must take to better mitigate global health threats.

Fellow in disease and poverty Peter J. Hotez examines how chronic and debilitating parasitic helminth infections prevent groups of people in Asia from escaping poverty.

This issue brief argues that continued investments in global health and the study of emerging pathogens could yield better tools to fight infectious diseases like the Zika virus long before they become a problem in the developed world.

Health Policy Scholar Quianta Moore examines legal and ethical justifications for permitting high-risk adolescents to consent to HIV prevention therapy in the Health Policy Forum’s March 2016 newsletter.

Disease and Poverty Fellow Peter J. Hotez testified before the House subcommittee on health on the Zika virus outbreak and the U.S. public health response to the disease.

Baker Institute Policy Report #64 highlights some of the central ethical issues pertaining to NTD policy development and argues that ethical considerations should be included in the policy development process.