
The US Centers for Disease Control has not updated most of its bi-weekly bird flu (H5N1) situation summary since 17 January – even if it finally published a limited edition of its Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report (MMWR) on Thursday, 6 February after several weeks of hiatus. In the wake of the shutdown of CDC information flow and the announced US withdrawal from WHO, Dr Lynn Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health, spoke with Health Policy Watch about how critical public health communications and global health collaboration remains to combatting the bird flu…