News
News, interviews, op-eds, and media coverage related to the Global Health Impact project.
Radio & Podcasts
USAID’s apparent demise and the US withdrawal from WHO put millions of lives worldwide at risk and imperil US national security
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2025-02-25
The moral dimension to America’s flawed health care system
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2024-12-19
How the G20 can prevent the next pandemic
Nicole Hassoun, Xiaoshun Li, Marc Fleurbaey in Center for Economic Policy Research
2024-11-21
When Lifesaving Vaccines Become Profit Machines for Drugmakers
James Paton and John Lauerman on Bloomberg News
2021-07-06
Guam offering "Vaccine Tourism" packages
Lucy Craft on CBS
2021-06-06
Which places will require proof of a COVID-19 vaccine? And should they?
Zoe Read and Alan Yu in WHYY
2021-04-05
Special Interview: Vaccine Nationalism
Nicole Hassoun on BeFM
2021-03-18
What the Present (And Future) Of Vaccination Records Looks Like Here and Abroad
Larry Mantle with Nicole Hassoun and Ramin Bastani on AirTalk
2021-03-16
How India’s Serum Institute became a COVID-19 vaccine powerhouse
Elana Gordon in The World
2021-02-04
How Do You Decide Who Gets A Potentially Life-Saving Vaccine First
Rob Ferret on Wisconsin Public Radio
2021-01-20
Vaccine Ethics: What Are We Learning from COVID-19?
Joel H. Rosenthal is joined by Ruth Faden, Nicole Hassoun, Clive Meanwell, Reed Tuckson, and Jeffrey Kahn on Carnegie Council
2020-12-07
Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate 7.7 billion people?
Jennifer Green on BBC
2020-11-29
Pfizer, Moderna news is promising, but billions are unlikely to get COVID-19 vaccine for years
Nicole Hassoun in Newswise
2020-11-16
Covid-19 defeats US Marines BBC Science in Action
Roland Pease on BBS Science in Action
2020-11-12
Who Should Get the COVID-19 Vaccine First?
Nicole Hassoun on Fox 40 WICZ
2020-09-25
Remdesivir is hard to obtain around the world
Elana Gordon in The World
2020-08-07
Benefits Of Sharing Coronavirus Knowledge Freely
Nicole Hassoun on Fox 40 WICZ
2020-05-14
How Business Should Consider Employee Health When Returning to Work
Nicole Hassoun on Fox 40 WICZ
2020-04-30
Businesses need to consider health, financial situation of employees in return to work amidst COVID-19
Nicole Hassoun in Newswise
2020-04-22
BU Expert Says U.S. Has "Moral as Well as Legal Obligation to Help"
Nicole Hassoun on Fox 40 WICZ
2020-04-17
Op-Eds & Articles
Why the world needs a strong WHO — and an international pandemic agreement
Nicole Hassoun and Kaushik Basu in The Hill
2024-06-02
COVID-19: How do we fight vaccine inequality?
Aprila Lanuza in CGTN
2021-10-07
Biden’s vaccine diplomacy embraces global solidarity — but there’s more to be done
Nicole Hassoun in The Hill
2021-06-17
How to Make ‘Immunity Passports’ More Ethical
Nicole Hassoun and Anders Herlitz in Scientfic American
2021-02-24
How to fix the orphan drug problem driving up medical costs
Nicole Hassoun in Quartz
2021-01-14
The price of a drug should be based on its therapeutic benefits – not just what the market will bear
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2021-01-13
Bioethicist: Why the UK is getting vaccine distribution right and the US is not
Nicole Hassoun in The Hill
2020-12-12
Commentary: Our focus on COVID risks a resurgence of other diseases
Nicole Hassoun in Times Union
2020-12-10
Buying a coronavirus vaccine for everyone on Earth, storing and shipping it, and giving it safely will all be hard and expensive
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2020-11-10
Covid-19 and the ethics of risk
Jonathan Wolff, Sridhar Venkatapuram, and Nicole Hassoun in BMJ Opinion
2020-10-22
What is COVAX and why does it matter for getting vaccines to developing nations?
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2020-10-02
How to Distribute a COVID-19 Vaccine Ethically
Nicole Hassoun in Scientific American
2020-09-25
To ethically tackle COVID-19, Big Pharma needs an overhaul
Nicole Hassoun in Fortune
2020-09-25
What is a minimally good life and are you prepared to live it?
Nicole Hassoun in Psyche
2020-09-21
The vaccine for corona does not exist yet, but it is worth thinking about its fair distribution right now
Nicole Hassoun in Ethics & International Affairs
2020-09-14
Philosophy and psychology agree - yelling at people who aren’t wearing masks won’t work
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2020-09-11
Jonathan Mann’s human rights blueprint for global health must guide COVID-19 response
Nicole Hassoun in The Hill
2020-09-02
Ending the pandemic will require big pharma to put ethics before profits
Nicole Hassoun in Fast Company
2020-07-18
Standing Together If Apart: Responding To Globalization
Nicole Hassoun in The Critique
2017-01-15
How can we get pharma companies to do more for global health? Try ranking them
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2016-09-20
On Aid For Africa: Overcoming The Challenges & Realizing The Opportunity
Nicole Hassoun in The Critique
2016-09-13
Authority is Not the (Only) Problem: People Have Positive as Well as Negative Rights
Nicole Hassoun in Cato Unbound
2013-03-11
Videos & Presentations
Global Health Impact
Nicole Hassoun in video interview with Barbara Veiga
2021-02-26
Who should get a COVID-19 vaccine first?
Nicole Hassoun in The Conversation
2020-09-18
Fair Trade Pharma: A Plan for More Affordable Prescription Drugs
Nicole Hassoun in Big Think
2017-05-08
How the Tyranny of Market Forces Stunts Our Moral Imagination
Nicole Hassoun in Big Think
2017-05-08
Harvard Medical School Explains Companies' Global Health Footprint
Global Health Impact
2015-04-14
Other Media
Binghamton University professor launches web tool to track impact of drugs worldwide
Health Medicine Network looks at the Global Health Impact
2025-12-15
The most important meeting yet for global pandemic response—and drugmakers
Nicole Hassoun and Kaushik Basu in Fortune
2021-11-29
Getting a COVID booster shot is a ‘difficult choice’ for many people, health tech advocate says
From Joyce Hackel in The World
2021-11-18
Planning For The Next Pandemic
Nicole Hassoun on WENY
2021-05-17
Researchers shed light on why Covid vaccine distribution methods fall short
From Deccan Herald
2021-04-02
How will Canada (and the world) use immunity passports?
Nicole Hassoun in CityNews Montreal
2021-03-09
Is It Ethical To Travel Internationally Before The World Is Vaccinated?
From Caroline Bologna in Huffpost
2021-03-04
Team of BU Researchers Say Global Vaccine Distribution Effort Needs Improvement
Nicole Hassoun in Fox 40 WICZ
2021-03-03
Could Venues and Airlines Require Covid-19 Vaccinations for Entry?
From Elizabeth Yuko in Rolling Stone
2020-12-22
Will COVID-19 end in 2021? Will we return to normality?
From Myriam Toua in Daily Express
2020-10-29
How Joining Vaccine Initiative COVAX could be Shot in the Arm for China
From Zhuang Pinghui in SCMP
2020-10-16
Should You Feel Bad Shopping for Non-Essential Items Right Now?
From Elizabeth Yuko in Reader's Digest
2020-04-22
No perfect way to ration care if outbreak spreads, ethics experts warn
From KDBC-TV
2020-04-03
Could treating drug companies like restaurants improve global health?
News brief of Global Health Impact in the The World
2016-07-20
Emerging Voices: Nicole Hassoun on Fair Trade for Health
Nicole Hassoun in Council on Foreign Relations' op-ed on the Global Health Impact Index
2012-06-25
Launch Event
The US worried about vaccine tourists. Now it’s encouraging them.
From Eileen Guo in MIT Technology Review
2021-05-26
How protecting human rights can help us increase our Global Health Impact
Nicole Hassoun in Oxford Universirty Press
2020-09-12
Web Tool Tracks Locations of Vital Drugs' Biggest Impact
From Jessica Berman in Voice of America
2015-12-15
Global Health Impact Index can measure actual impact of drugs worldwide
In News Medical
2015-12-15
Crean índice para medir el impacto mundial de los fármacos por laboratorio
In América Economía
2015-12-15
Who deserves to be healthy?
From Diana Bean in Binghamton University Magazine
2015-05-30
The Global Health Impact Index: A Human Development Index for Health
Nicole Hassoun in Centre for Development and Human Rights
2015-03-16
Global Impact
From Nir Eyal in Compass
2015-02-19
Binghamton Professor Launches Web Tool to Track Impact of Drugs Worldwide
From Academics Stand Against Poverty Globacl
2015-02-09
The Global Health Impact Index
Nicole Hassoun and Priya Bhimani in Impact Ethics
2015-01-30
Global Health Impact and Access to Essential Medicines
Nicole Hassoun in the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law
2015-01-26
SUNY professor indexes pharma companies’ impact
Nicole Hassoun in Politico
2015-01-23
A New Index Measures Impact Pharma Has on Infectious Diseases
Nicole Hassoun in the Wall Street Journal
2015-01-23
New effort ranks drugmakers by impact
From Dan Gorenstein on NPR's Marketplace
2015-01-23
Could treating drug companies like restaurants improve global health?
From Marissa Miley in The World
2013-12-11
Big Pharma and The Health of The Poorest
From Belgian newspaper
2024-01-01