Robert Hecht

The United States is making the same mistake in its response to the #monkeypox outbreak, led by the CDC, as it did with the start of the #COVID19 pandemic, by not moving swiftly enough to expand testing and increase awareness. bostonglobe.com/2022/07/14/o…

Today we could be on the cusp of a historic breakthrough in #globalhealth financing. Respected international panels have called a fund of $10+ billion a year for pandemic preparedness. @GlobalFund should be at the center of this initiative. healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377…

Why aren’t the nurses in our pediatrician’s office vaccinated? Governor Baker needs to close the loophole for licensed health workers who are outside of the current #mandates but still work with vulnerable populations, including #children. bostonglobe.com/2021/10/18/o… via @BostonGlobe

My publication with @ALIMA @lindseyhiebert is among the 1st costing studies of maternal & child health package w/ small-quantity lipid-based nutritional supplements. This can help scale interventions in countries w/ dire undernutrition. Read here @YSPH journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

#COVIDー19 is proving to be an ever-shifting and likely chronic health threat and we need to remain vigilant. #Vaccines are our best weapon in this battle. bostonglobe.com/2021/08/30/o…

Run, do not walk, to get your shot, if you haven’t been vaccinated already. Read about our the #deltavariant and #vaccines in the Boston Globe. bostonglobe.com/2021/07/07/o…

We interviewed six experts on how #covid19 will evolve in 2021. Read what they said in this @BostonGlobe story.

Check out this timely op-ed that Shan Soe-Lin and I published in the #NYTimes on on how to deploy #COVID19 #vaccines. By targeting hotspot communities in the immediate next phase, we can slow virus transmission and reopen the economy as soon as possible. nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opini…

This program has huge potential to reduce maternal and child malnutrition in India. It needs some major fixes to do so...

Great meeting on Hepatitis B modeling by Tim Hallett and his @imperialcollege team points to huge gains possible from HBV birth dose #VaccinesWork and low cost Hep B treatment -- read bit.ly/2jQg33O for compelling evidence

Markus Haaker's remarkable study bit.ly/2HVzMJV of Egypt's Hepatitis plan shows scale of investment required and huge health gains. Clear why @WBG_Health is developing a loan to assist #Egypt based on earlier tech input from @cdchep and @institutpasteur

Peter Vickerman and his team at Bristol U are doing pioneering work estimating the scale of effort required to stop hepatitis C in high prevalence countries like Pakistan bit.ly/2uMUGIW. We need more of this!

Impressive to see the leadership that Michael Ninburg is bringing to World Hepatitis Alliance #nohep. We must combine stronger local and global advocacy with targeted country policy support to drive accelerated scale up of life-saving HCV treatment

Great to see middle income countries like Thailand doing their own assessment of Hep C treatment to judge cost-effectiveness and affordability -- congrats Yot and Team! bit.ly/2F3n5KF

New strategies for MIC countries to scale up life-saving cures without big donor funds like @PEPFAR ? See Hepatitis C investment case in South Africa academic.oup.com/heapol/arti…