Find out what Pew’s biomedical scholars and Latin American fellows are doing to combat the disease.
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Learn MoreEsteban Engel, a 2011 Pew Latin American Fellow and postdoc at Princeton University, studies viruses affecting the central nervous system. He hopes his research will one day enhance the study of virology in his homeland of Chile.
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Edward De Robertis, National Advisory Committee member and founding member of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences. More info
Despite warning that thousands of inspections would be cut by Sept. 30., FDA reconfigures budget and gets help from $40 million to fund the Food Safety Modernization Act. More info
Jessica Donze Black, director of the Pew Kids' Safe & Healthful Foods Project, speaks with Education Week about a bipartisan bill that would provide money for school kitchen upgrades.
More infoA unique device identifier, or UDI, would enable FDA, manufacturers, patients, and clinicians to track medical devices and generate performance data on them.
Several chefs, including "Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio, traveled to Washington to ask Congress to eliminate the overuse of antibiotics in meat and poultry production.
The field of health impact assessments (HIAs) is growing quickly, as cities and states continue to benefit from factoring health into major policy decisions. There are now more than 225 completed and in progress HIAs in the United States.
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