Rebecca Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6056844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2831-0866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defining Global Health Diplomacy
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally reshaped the field of Global Health Diplomacy (GHD), necessitating a coordinated international response that strived for equitable access to limited health resources. The pandemic, however, also exposed gaps in GHD actors’ preparedness and response capabilities, which impacted their ability to navigate critical global health challenges. Addressing gaps in the knowledge, skills, and competencies of GHD actors is…
The barriers and enablers of outbreak reporting in the Asia-Pacific region
Outbreak reporting is thought to be subject to technical, or capacity, barriers that physically hinder reporting and non-technical barriers, such as the threat of economic losses, that discourage governments from reporting. While technical barriers to reporting have been extensively explored, there is less evidence for the effects of non-technical barriers, particularly at the subnational level. To better understand the impact of both technical a…
A global analysis of quarantine and isolation policies governing outbreak responses
INTRODUCTION: Countries across the world implemented diverse quarantine and isolation policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with varying levels of efficacy. Their widespread use invites new considerations regarding the effectiveness of domestic quarantine and isolation policies, the ways they are enforced, and the jurisdictions responsible for ordering these measures. METHODS: We systematically analysed legally enforceable policies in current…
The WHO Disease Outbreak News during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) was an important public source of information – not only about the pandemic, but also thousands of other potential health emergencies. Here, we examine the 242 reports published in the WHO Disease Outbreak News (DON) during the first four years of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020 to 2023), and document the diseases and regions that were reported. We find that multinational epidemics of …
Global approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance
BACKGROUND: Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) contributes to a high burden of disease and exacerbates factors that promote the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Enforceable policies are foundational to curbing inappropriate use of antimicrobials and providing safe WASH. While many countries have established National Action Plans for AMR that include provisions for WASH, few have codified these plans into legally enforceable…
An incomplete picture
Financing global health security
The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News
The World Health Organization (WHO) notifies the global community about disease outbreaks through the Disease Outbreak News (DON). These online reports tell important stories about both outbreaks themselves and the high-level decision making that governs information sharing during public health emergencies. However, they have been used only minimally in global health scholarship to date. Here, we collate all 2,789 of these reports from their firs…
Fifteen days in December
Following the identification of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in late November 2021, governments worldwide took actions intended to minimise the impact of the new variant within their borders. Despite guidance from the WHO advising a risk-based approach, many rapidly implemented stringent policies focused on travel restrictions. In this paper, we capture 221 national-level travel policies issued during the 3 weeks following publicis…
Singapore Statement on Global Health Security
Published online: 27 June 2022
A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management. Citizen science, defined here as a practice of public participation and collaboration in all aspects of scientific research to increase knowledge and build trust with governments and researchers, is a crucial approach to promoting community enga…
Investing in global health security
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted critical gaps in global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases. To effectively allocate investments that address these gaps, it is first necessary to quantify the extent of the need, evaluate the types of resources and activities that require additional support, and engage the global community in ongoing assessment, planning, and implementation. Which investments are needed, where, to…
Covid-19 and the proliferation of urban networks for health security
Recent years have witnessed cities establishing themselves as major players in addressing global issues, often taking collective action through international city networks and organizations. These networks are important, as they amplify the voices of municipal officials, who are often excluded from high-level decision-making, and can also provide a platform for officials from low- or middle-income nations to participate in higher-level political …
The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan, China
Clinical Characteristics of Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China
Novel, Educational and Legal Responses to Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence
The three panel presenters and session chair are co-researchers in a seven-year research partnership—involving 28 educational institutions, 25 co-investigators,15 community partners, and 50+ students—that aims to address sexual violence in physical and virtual forms in university contexts across Canada and internationally. The project specifically seeks to address, dismantle and prevent sexual violence by means of multi-sector partnership solutio…
Rapid urban health security assessment tool
Urbanisation will be one of the defining demographic trends of the 21st century—creating unique opportunities for sustainable capacity development, as well as substantial risks and challenges for managing public health and health emergencies. Plans and policies for responding to public health emergencies are generally framed at higher levels of governance, but developing, improving and sustaining the capacities necessary for implementing these po…
Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World
""This book is a collection of research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media"
Tracking the Flow of Funds in Global Health Security
Countries, philanthropies, and private sector organizations have been actively investing in global health security around the world. However, despite the coordinated approach to funding within the Global Health Security Agenda, there is currently no well-established method to track the commitment and disbursal of funds for global health security from funders to recipients or to identify the activities supported by existing funding initiatives. To…
Regional approaches for enhancing global health security
Analysis of results from the Joint External Evaluation
BACKGROUND: The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) is part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) new process to help countries assess their ability to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats such as infectious disease outbreaks, as specified by the International Health Regulations (IHR). How countries are faring on these evaluations is not well known and neither is there any previous assessment of the performance characteristics of t…
Funding Public Health Emergency Preparedness in the United States
The historical precedents that support state and local leadership in preparedness for and response to disasters are in many ways at odds with the technical demands of preparedness and response for incidents affecting public health. New and revised laws and regulations, executive orders, policies, strategies, and plans developed in response to biological threats since 2001 address the role of the federal government in the response to public health…
Disease surveillance, capacity building and implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR[2005])
At the December 2009 Meeting of States Parties of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), U.S. Under Secretary of State Ellen Tauscher committed the U.S. Government (USG) to engaging the global community to achieving and sustaining the capabilities to combat infectious diseases and protect against biological threats. Specifically, she committed the USG to a series of actions, including international meetings on global disease surveillance and im…
U.S. Government engagement in support of global disease surveillance
Global cooperation is essential for coordinated planning and response to public health emergencies, as well as for building sufficient capacity around the world to detect, assess and respond to health events. The United States is committed to, and actively engaged in, supporting disease surveillance capacity building around the world. We recognize that there are many agencies involved in this effort, which can become confusing to partner countrie…
Women and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Demography and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION SCIENCES ARE EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: protecting and securing the population's health requires information about that population. While related fields such as security studies have successfully integrated demographic tools into their research and literature, the theoretical and practical connection between the methods of demography and the practice of publ…
Can an attribution assessment be made for Yellow Rain? Systematic reanalysis in a chemical-and-biological-weapons use investigation
In intelligence investigations, such as those into reports of chemical- or biological-weapons (CBW) use, evidence may be difficult to assemble and, once assembled, to weigh. We propose a methodology for such investigations and then apply it to a large body of recently declassified evidence to determine the extent to which an attribution can now be made in the Yellow Rain case. Our analysis strongly supports the hypothesis that CBW were used in So…
Funding Public Health Emergency Preparedness in the United States
The historical precedents that support state and local leadership in preparedness for and response to disasters are in many ways at odds with the technical demands of preparedness and response for incidents affecting public health. New and revised laws and regulations, executive orders, policies, strategies, and plans developed in response to biological threats since 2001 address the role of the federal government in the response to public health…
Demography and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION SCIENCES ARE EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: protecting and securing the population's health requires information about that population. While related fields such as security studies have successfully integrated demographic tools into their research and literature, the theoretical and practical connection between the methods of demography and the practice of publ…
Public health preparedness
A biological weapons attack today would quickly overwhelm the public health system, a crucial although unfamiliar player in the national security field. To be effective, more attention should be paid to strengthening public health infrastructure. Here's how
A timeline of the racialist movement in the United States
Since the 1995 bombing of the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, academics and the general public have shown increased interest in white racial extremist and other right-wing radical groups. The interest in understanding any form of extreme intolerance requires locating the historical development of the ideas, beliefs, and actions espoused through the legislation of miscegenation in our nation's history and by extremist organizat…
Public health preparedness
A biological weapons attack today would quickly overwhelm the public health system, a crucial although unfamiliar player in the national security field. To be effective, more attention should be paid to strengthening public health infrastructure. Here's how
Can an attribution assessment be made for Yellow Rain? Systematic reanalysis in a chemical-and-biological-weapons use investigation
In intelligence investigations, such as those into reports of chemical- or biological-weapons (CBW) use, evidence may be difficult to assemble and, once assembled, to weigh. We propose a methodology for such investigations and then apply it to a large body of recently declassified evidence to determine the extent to which an attribution can now be made in the Yellow Rain case. Our analysis strongly supports the hypothesis that CBW were used in So…
Disease surveillance, capacity building and implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR[2005])
At the December 2009 Meeting of States Parties of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), U.S. Under Secretary of State Ellen Tauscher committed the U.S. Government (USG) to engaging the global community to achieving and sustaining the capabilities to combat infectious diseases and protect against biological threats. Specifically, she committed the USG to a series of actions, including international meetings on global disease surveillance and im…
U.S. Government engagement in support of global disease surveillance
Global cooperation is essential for coordinated planning and response to public health emergencies, as well as for building sufficient capacity around the world to detect, assess and respond to health events. The United States is committed to, and actively engaged in, supporting disease surveillance capacity building around the world. We recognize that there are many agencies involved in this effort, which can become confusing to partner countrie…
Women and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Demography and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION SCIENCES ARE EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: protecting and securing the population's health requires information about that population. While related fields such as security studies have successfully integrated demographic tools into their research and literature, the theoretical and practical connection between the methods of demography and the practice of publ…
Comparative Analysis of National Legislation in Support of the Revised International Health Regulations
In 2005, the World Health Organization adopted the revised International Health Regulations, or IHR (2005), to establish obligations for detecting and responding to public health emergencies of international concern. The success of the IHR (2005) rests on the ability of states to implement the objectives and to execute the regulations in a legal and politically acceptable manner. Implementation of the IHR (2005) may be challenging for federalist …
Funding Public Health Emergency Preparedness in the United States
The historical precedents that support state and local leadership in preparedness for and response to disasters are in many ways at odds with the technical demands of preparedness and response for incidents affecting public health. New and revised laws and regulations, executive orders, policies, strategies, and plans developed in response to biological threats since 2001 address the role of the federal government in the response to public health…
Analysis of results from the Joint External Evaluation
BACKGROUND: The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) is part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) new process to help countries assess their ability to prevent, detect and respond to public health threats such as infectious disease outbreaks, as specified by the International Health Regulations (IHR). How countries are faring on these evaluations is not well known and neither is there any previous assessment of the performance characteristics of t…
Tracking the Flow of Funds in Global Health Security
Countries, philanthropies, and private sector organizations have been actively investing in global health security around the world. However, despite the coordinated approach to funding within the Global Health Security Agenda, there is currently no well-established method to track the commitment and disbursal of funds for global health security from funders to recipients or to identify the activities supported by existing funding initiatives. To…
Regional approaches for enhancing global health security
The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan, China
Clinical Characteristics of Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China
Novel, Educational and Legal Responses to Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence
The three panel presenters and session chair are co-researchers in a seven-year research partnership—involving 28 educational institutions, 25 co-investigators,15 community partners, and 50+ students—that aims to address sexual violence in physical and virtual forms in university contexts across Canada and internationally. The project specifically seeks to address, dismantle and prevent sexual violence by means of multi-sector partnership solutio…
Rapid urban health security assessment tool
Urbanisation will be one of the defining demographic trends of the 21st century—creating unique opportunities for sustainable capacity development, as well as substantial risks and challenges for managing public health and health emergencies. Plans and policies for responding to public health emergencies are generally framed at higher levels of governance, but developing, improving and sustaining the capacities necessary for implementing these po…
Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World
""This book is a collection of research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media"
Covid-19 and the proliferation of urban networks for health security
Recent years have witnessed cities establishing themselves as major players in addressing global issues, often taking collective action through international city networks and organizations. These networks are important, as they amplify the voices of municipal officials, who are often excluded from high-level decision-making, and can also provide a platform for officials from low- or middle-income nations to participate in higher-level political …
Fifteen days in December
Following the identification of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in late November 2021, governments worldwide took actions intended to minimise the impact of the new variant within their borders. Despite guidance from the WHO advising a risk-based approach, many rapidly implemented stringent policies focused on travel restrictions. In this paper, we capture 221 national-level travel policies issued during the 3 weeks following publicis…
Singapore Statement on Global Health Security
Published online: 27 June 2022
A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management. Citizen science, defined here as a practice of public participation and collaboration in all aspects of scientific research to increase knowledge and build trust with governments and researchers, is a crucial approach to promoting community enga…
Investing in global health security
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted critical gaps in global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases. To effectively allocate investments that address these gaps, it is first necessary to quantify the extent of the need, evaluate the types of resources and activities that require additional support, and engage the global community in ongoing assessment, planning, and implementation. Which investments are needed, where, to…
Financing global health security
The World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News
The World Health Organization (WHO) notifies the global community about disease outbreaks through the Disease Outbreak News (DON). These online reports tell important stories about both outbreaks themselves and the high-level decision making that governs information sharing during public health emergencies. However, they have been used only minimally in global health scholarship to date. Here, we collate all 2,789 of these reports from their firs…
Global approaches to tackling antimicrobial resistance
BACKGROUND: Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) contributes to a high burden of disease and exacerbates factors that promote the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Enforceable policies are foundational to curbing inappropriate use of antimicrobials and providing safe WASH. While many countries have established National Action Plans for AMR that include provisions for WASH, few have codified these plans into legally enforceable…
An incomplete picture
Medicine (22 works) · Public health (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (15 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Disease (10 works) · Global health (10 works) · Preparedness (10 works) · Public relations (10 works)