UPDATE:
Starting July 1, the Tufts International Travel Policy will require advanced registration through the Tufts Travel Registry for university business-related international travel.
Hantavirus Outbreak Raises Questions—Here’s How We Can Protect Ourselves
A Tufts researcher studying diseases carried by wild rats answers our questions about the rare rodent-borne virus that caused a deadly cruise ship outbreak
Re-Opening the Strait of Hormuz Won’t Restore the Status Quo
The closure of the strategic chokepoint off the coast of Iran will have long-term global implications, even once ships resume travel there, a Fletcher School expert explains
How the War in Iran Has Weakened the U.S. in the Great Power Game
Russia and China are reaping the rewards of American focus on the Middle East
A Spring Break to Build Upon
A team of students worked to replace Hawaii homes destroyed by wildfire, and reunite a family
A New Uncertainty on the Global Stage
A lack of rising powers and the headwinds faced by existing powers signal a new era of global competition, with potential upsides and downsides, according to a political scientist
Tufts Global In the News
Food Industry Sees a Threat in Kennedy’s Push to Define ‘Ultraprocessed’ Food
New York Times
Distinguished Professor, Friedman School Dean Emeritus, and FIMI Director Dariush Mozaffarian says that defining ultraprocessed foods is “one of the most important policy actions around food that the U.S. government has done for probably 25 years or more.”
MaineHealth ramping up chronic Lyme study
Portland Press Herald
School of Medicine’s Linden Hu is quoted about an ongoing clinical trial with MaineHealth that aims to determine why Lyme disease symptoms persist in some patients long after the infection has cleared.
Research on tick-borne illness
NPR
Cummings School’s Heidi Goethert joins this episode of The Point for an in-depth discussion of tick-borne illnesses on the Cape and Islands and Tufts’ ongoing research to help reduce incidents of these diseases. (Her comments begin at 6:32.)