Emergency Preparedness & Management
As FAS gets ready to officially kick off its Day One 2025 effort and looks back to the origins of Day One, it’s essential to also recognize the important policy innovations our community surfaced after that initial tranche of memos It’s also useful to reflect on...
Recent global events have underscored a pressing truth: our ever-expanding interactions with the natural world can lead to unforeseen health challenges At the juncture of urban development, climate change and health concerns, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic raised...
In 2023, the Federation of American Scientists engaged 85+ experts in conversations around federal policies needed to address extreme heat, yielding over 100 recommendations to address extreme heat’s impacts and build community resilience These recommendations...
While world public health agencies are focused on how to react to the next pandemic once it has started, a new plan proposes using ecological perspectives to prevent disease outbreaks before they happen, according to a paper published March 26 in Nature...
Prioritizing Smoke Hazards in Wildfire Policy Wildfires have increased dramatically in recent years, in part due to climate change While more than 90% of wildfire-attributable deaths are due to smoke, less than 1% of wildfire funding goes to mitigating smoke...
Mosquito Control Policy Governance With anthropogenic climate change, vector-borne diseases are moving into new habitats Understanding how and why governments respond to vector-borne diseases differently is critical to preventing disease outbreaks, morbidity, and...
A new kind of death is coming to Antarctica, scientists fear The harsh environment is full of everyday heartbreak: predation, starvation, chicks that are lost at sea when their icy shoreline melts away Now a novel pathogen threatens to rip through colonies of marine...
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of cases was determined by how many people were testing positive every day, using PCR tests While the tests themselves are considered highly accurate, there were limitations to this method, as not everybody had the same...
A wheezing black dog drags its owner up the stairs, into a clinic awash with furry patients In one pram a chihuahua is dozing, while a golden retriever nearby circles restlessly before settling down on the tiled floor Most of the pampered pets in the waiting room at...
Cats have a special place in many people’s hearts An estimated 60 million felines are kept as pets in the United States alone Cats also occupy a distinct position in the ecological networks of companion animals, humans and peri-domestic species – wild and feral...
A new method could be used by biologists to estimate the prevalence of disease in free-ranging wildlife and help determine how many samples are needed to detect a disease This is important because wildlife agencies often lack the financial and labor resources to...
