Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?

Should the WHO withdraw support for mass deworming?

1 World Bank, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Center for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, 5 Department of...

Who should provide research initiative and support?

The study of low dose environmental exposure is a major concern for epidemiologists. The problem is a special example of a common source epidemic with either single or continuous exposure. Usually the most common source investigations begin with an epidemic, cluster of cases. However, environmental studies often start with an exposure that is considered to be potentially hazardous and a search ...

Mass deworming in Ugandan children.

Who should direct WHO?

ast week, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) advanced another step in the nearly 1-year rigorous process of selecting its next director-general. Candidates for the position presented their vision of international health work and the role of this global health body. Having worked at WHO in a number of capacities in the area of infectious diseases, I know well that international...

Mapping the Worm Wars: What the Public Should Take Away from the Scientific Debate about Mass Deworming

The unique feature of that original study from Kenya, by Michael Kremer and Ted Miguel, was that it found important effects of mass deworming on school attendance — not just for children that got deworming pills, but for other kids who didn’t get the pills, both in the same school and in nearby schools. That’s plausible because the more infected kids take the pills, the less infected excrement ...