Alanna Shaikh holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a master's degree in public health from Boston University. She has lived in seven countries and it the author of What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problem. Recent article publications include an article on global health security in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper and an essay in the Annual Review of Comparative and International Education.
Global health expert Alanna Shaikh shares how she stays on top of -- and not drowned by -- the tidal wave of COVID-19 news coming at all of us.
Continue readingIn Session 2 of today’s Fellows Talks: a waterborne peep show in San Francisco, a triage app that saves lives, the architecture of death, and more! The session starts with Bill “Blinky” Sellanga performing “Usinibore” solo on acoustic guitar. “It was a song I wrote in 2008 in response to the post-election violence,” he says, […]
Continue readingGlobal health expert Alanna Shaikh gave an unexpected and moving talk at TEDGlobal 2012, called “How I’m preparing to get Alzheimer’s.” In it, she told the story of her father’s struggle with the disease, and outlined some strategies she’d devised in case dementia struck her later in life, too. The TED Blog was curious: How is her experiment […]
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