Monkeypox and Global Health Inequities: A Tale as Old as Time…

Monica Malta; Placide Mbala-Kingebeni; Anne W Rimoin; Steffanie A Strathdee

doi:10.3390/ijerph192013380

Monkeypox and Global Health Inequities: A Tale as Old as Time…

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 17;19(20):13380. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013380.

Authors

Monica Malta^{1

2}, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni³, Anne W Rimoin⁴, Steffanie A Strathdee⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada.
² Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada.
³ National Institute of Biomedical Research, Cliniques Universitaires De Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Abstract

Infectious disease outbreaks can quickly become global in what has increasingly become a closely interconnected world, influenced by what is considered to be an unprecedented era of technological, demographic, and climatic change [...].

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks
Health Inequities
Humans
Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding. Strathdee acknowledges funding from NIDA/NIH, grant number 3R01DA049644-03S3.