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Extreme close-up view of a tick's mouth, showing sharp edges and ridges

May 14, 2021

  • Dr. Cecile Viboud

    Viboud’s Covid Transmission Data Guides Policy

    By Dana Talesnik

    Throughout an infectious disease pandemic, decision-makers rely on data projections to determine how to control transmission and move toward normalcy. NIIH disease modeler Dr. Cécile Viboud discusses plotting data from multiple models to quantify the burden of Covid infections.
  • Bakken speaks on Zoom

    Columbia’s Bakken Discusses Visualization, Health Equity

    By Carla Garnett

    Viewers expecting scientific sonnets and iambic pentameter were inspired instead by insights into another art form—nursing research. Columbia University’s Dr. Suzanne Bakken discussed “Implications of Poetical Science for Advancing Health Equity through Information Visualization,” a recent installment in the National Library of Medicine’s Ada Lovelace Lecture Series.
  • Carol Haggans

    Nutritionists Discuss Dietary Supplements

    By Dana Talesnik

    Dietary supplements are wildly popular and their use is steadily growing. Are they safe? Do they work? Two NIH nutrition scientists offer some precautions and reminders to help choose and use dietary supplements wisely.
  • Schwetz and Wolinetz

    OD Leadership Shifts Announced

    Significant leadership changes within the NIH Office of the Director have occurred. NIH associate deputy director Dr. Tara Schwetz and NIH associate director for science policy Dr. Carrie Wolinetz recently joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Extreme close-up view of a tick's mouth, showing sharp edges and ridges

On the Cover

Tick mouth. Image shows how the design of the mouth makes ticks generally difficult to remove once they have attached for a blood meal. A strategic research plan by NIH aims to build on and accelerate new and existing research initiatives to improve scientific understanding of ticks and the pathogens they may transmit, and to develop tools to better diagnose, prevent and treat tickborne illnesses.

Photo: NIAID

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