The UNMC Global Center for Health Security, an international leader in biopreparedness, is launching a newsletter focusing on important news and data on emerging infectious diseases and critical global health security topics.
Called The Transmission, the weekly newsletter will be curated and produced by Claudinne Miller, who joins UNMC from Tulane University.
Miller is a former U.S. Department of Defense intelligence analyst who has for years produced reports to top-level U.S. government leadership and international public health, academic and government leaders about past outbreaks including Ebola, COVID-19, H1N1 and H5N1.
The Transmission will offer more than a carefully curated list of news article links. It also will offer surveillance reporting and abstracts of relevant peer-reviewed research in emerging infectious diseases and global health security.
The newsletter will be housed online via UNMC at The Transmission. Interested readers can subscribe through this link.
The first edition, which went out Wednesday, offered some two dozen links on topics including COVID, Ebola, monkeypox, polio, the latest COVID case data, research, clinical considerations in COVID, vaccines and misinformation that’s circulating.
John-Martin Lowe, PhD, executive director of education for the Global Center for Health Security and UNMC’s assistant vice chancellor for inter-professional health security training and education, said the global center is thrilled to have Miller join its team.
“Claudinne has a remarkable reputation around the world for synthesizing critical health security trends and information,” Dr. Lowe said. “As a trusted partner and advisor to governments and response organizations, the Global Center for Health Security is routinely asked to share the global trends and events we are monitoring.”
Dr. Lowe said the launch of The Transmission “will ensure we provide timely and widely accessible information.”
“Many groups around the globe look to GCHS for guidance in deciphering important events,” he said. “GCHS Transmission is an important step for us to fulfill our mission to lead the world in health security science, response and training.”
Said Miller, “I’m thrilled to be a new member of the University of Nebraska Medical Center global health security team. I look forward to delivering a timely and relevant collection of the most pressing news and information to public health professionals, U.S. government leadership, our foreign partners in public health and members of the informed public.”