November:  There was considerable interest in the paper by Rohani et al. on pertussis epidemiology.  See for example

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40135271/ns/health-infectious_diseases/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101111/sc_livescience/adultwhoopingcoughvaccinationsfailtostemoutbreaks

http://www.eht-forum.org/news.html?fileId=news101110053732&from=home&id=0

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/23305

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/207748.php

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1949364/children_not_adults_spread_whooping_cough/

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/107506828.html

http://topnews.co.uk/216626-whooping-cough-transmitted-among-children-study

Check out Aaron King’s interview on CBS news: http://wibw.videogenesis.net/watch?v=12771&ref=recent 

October:  Congratulations to lab Alum Matt Bonds (Harvard School of Public Health) who has just been awarded the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
Individual Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.  This fellowship will allow Matt to continue his work on the feedback between economics and health in Rwanda.