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Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Reporter, ProPublica

Anna Maria Barry-Jester reports on global public health and the agencies that govern it, including the NIH, IHS, USAID, and CDC.
Anna Maria Barry-Jester reports on global public health and the agencies that govern it, including the NIH, IHS, USAID, and CDC.
Workforce

The CDC Scientist Who Couldn’t Get Monkeypox Treatment

As a Black man and a senior CDC scientist, William L. Jeffries IV knows a lot about health inequities and infectious diseases in America. Still, it took visits to 3 doctors — and a desperate call to a colleague — for him to get treatment for monkeypox.

Management

Health Officials See Bright Future in Poop Surveillance

Sewage surveillance is proving so useful in mapping covid trends that many public health officials say it should become standard practice in tracking infectious diseases. Whether that happens will depend on the nation’s ability to make it viable in communities rich and poor.

Tech

Can the U.S. Keep COVID-19 Variants in Check? Here’s What It Takes

The U.S. has fumbled almost every step of its public health response in its battle against COVID-19. Experts say that must change if we’re going to outflank the variants emerging as the virus continues to mutate