Dept. of Infectious Disease and Global Health
A Cummings School expert in global health shares what’s working in the latest outbreak—and what needs to change
If a Cummings School scientist can unlock why tuberculosis affects individuals so differently, she can point the way to more personalized treatments
As Congress orders an investigation of whether the Pentagon is to blame for the Lyme disease epidemic, a Cummings School expert explains why that’s a waste of public time and money
Cummings School’s Jeffrey Mariner, who played a key role in eradicating the devastating cattle plague from the wild, weighs in on an effort to destroy laboratory samples of the virus
The pill is the first known working device capable of non-invasively and accurately assessing the profile of bacterial species inhabiting any stage of the gastrointestinal tract
The rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus infected 12 people in Massachusetts last summer.
Watch how hard a baby painted turtle must work to hatch from its egg in this time-lapse video of 13 hours condensed to just 40 seconds!
Cummings School Professor Sam Telford, an expert on infections spread by mosquitoes and ticks, explains
Cummings School alumni and faculty members team up to help a monkey victim of the illegal pet trade
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