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Bat-borne Nipah virus could help explain COVID-19
December 2020
Researchers have long known that the number of human infections from the bat-borne Nipah virus fluctuates from year to year. A new study provides insights into the reasons why. Stanford...
Planetary health approaches for dry cities: water quality and heat mitigation
November 2020
Water sensitive cities show how holistic approaches can counter the health and wellbeing problems associated with urban dryness. About 1.6 billion people live in countries with water scarcity, and...
Viral lessons: What a little-known virus could teach us about COVID-19
November 2020
Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby discusses surprising results of a recent study on Nipah virus, a disease with no vaccine and a mortality rate of up to 70 percent.
To stop the next pandemic, we need to unravel the origins of COVID-19
November 2020
We find ourselves ten months into one of the most catastrophic global health events of our lifetime and we still do not know how it began. Despite the critical importance of this question, efforts to...
Coronavirus Blues: The Detrimental Mental Health Effects of Prolonged Lockdowns and Uncertainty Require Attention
October 2020
Even if effective treatments and vaccines for coronavirus become available soon, we must start thinking about the mental health dimensions of national recovery.
The COVID-19 Infodemic: What Can Be Done About the Infectious Spread of Misinformation and Disinformation
September 2020
Almost since its first emergence, the spreading SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has also been accompanied by a widespread proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, what the World Health Organization (...
Bad Earth
August 2020
Every year, humans move more earth and rock than rivers, wind, rain and all other planetary forces combined. And the quantity of rock moved by Anglo American in its century-plus of metal mining...
Extremely unlikely that they will find anything
August 2020
A helicopter scan for radioactivity at SF’s former bases had limited value. The city relied on it anyway, using what Gabrielle Hecht calls “a classic playbook around issues of toxicity, radiation and...
Which countries will get COVID-19 vaccine first? It could come down to money
August 2020
CISAC Senior Fellow David Relman worries that developing countries may be left behind and hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line.
Cuéllar looks back on leading FSI
December 2014
For 14 years, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar has been a tireless Stanford professor who has strengthened the fabric of university’s interdisciplinary nature.
CISAC tackles public health & policy questions on Ebola
October 2014
We ask CISAC biosecurity experts David Relman and Megan Palmer to answer questions about the public health and policy implications of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Honors Student Mailyn Fidler awarded Marshall Scholarship
December 2013
Honors student Mailyn Fidler has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship to continue her studies in international technology policy.
Stanford's Drew Endy honored as White House Champion of Change
June 2013
CISAC's Drew Endy has been honored at the White House as a "Champion of Change." The award is given to experts and researchers who promote the use of open scientific data and publications for the...
Stanford law professor, security expert to lead FSI
February 2013
When Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar takes the helm of FSI in July, he'll oversee the institute's 11 research centers and programs along with a variety of undergraduate and graduate education...
CISAC names Stanford biosecurity expert as next co-director
October 2012
Dr. David Relman, a Stanford microbiologist and professor of infectious diseases, has been named the next CISAC co-director.
- The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome
- Incomplete recovery and individualized responses of the human distal gut microbiota to repeated antibiotic perturbation
- The biological century: coming to terms with risk in the life sciences
- Microbial threat lists: obstacles in the quest for biosecurity?
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Stanford-UN collaboration rethinks refugee communities
October 2012
The UNHCR has called on CISAC's security experts to collaborate on a project to better protect and support the more than 42 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide....
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to be appointed to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States
July 2010
President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Cuellar, an expert on federal regulatory policy, public safety, and international security, to the independent agency of the United States...
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