Media/Policy Watch
This section is intended to alert readers to substantive news, analysis and opinion from the general media on vaccines, immunization, global; public health and related themes. Media Watch is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues CVEP is actively tracking. This section will grow from an initial base of newspapers, magazines and blog sources, and is segregated from Journal Watch above which scans the peer-reviewed journal ecology.

We acknowledge the Western/Northern bias in this initial selection of titles and invite suggestions for expanded coverage. We are conservative in our outlook in adding news sources which largely report on primary content we are already covering above. Many electronic media sources have tiered, fee-based subscription models for access. We will provide full-text where content is published without restriction, but most publications require registration and some subscription level.

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Accessed 28 May 2016
He Survived Ebola. Now He’s Fighting to Keep It From Spreading.
A doctor in Guinea tries to train health workers to halt the transmission of the disease — before it comes roaring back.
By JESSICA BENKO
MAY 26, 2016

Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Guide of the Gates Foundation
| 23 May 2016
On her second anniversary as chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a global colossus of philanthropy, Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann wrote of progress against smoking in the Philippines, polio across the world and sleeping sickness in Africa. Before joining the foundation, she led development of the cancer drugs Avastin and Herceptin at Genentech, then was chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. We spoke for an hour at her office in Seattle. A condensed and edited version of the conversation follows.

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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/home-page?_wsjregion=na,us&_homepage=/home/us
Accessed 28 May 2016
Opinion
Jeremy Farrar: Preparing the WHO for the Next Outbreak
24 May 2016
The Ebola outbreak that started in 2013 confirmed what had long been evident: That the structure and approach of the World Health Organization were deeply flawed. The global community was sluggish in reacting to the crisis, with inadequate coordination and confused decision making. Vaccines and treatments that showed promise only came on stream toward the end of the epidemic, and even those owed much to luck…