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Saskia Popescu is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, specializing in global health security and pandemic preparedness.


Articles by Saskia Popescu

Memo to Trump: Invest in global health security

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity
President Donald Trump at a press conference.

Hear, see, speak no COVID: Why the Trump administration is bungling the response to the pandemic

By Saskia Popescu, Gregory D. Koblentz | Biosecurity
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Pandemic dispatch: An infection-prevention expert on shortages, misinformation, and health worker strain on the coronavirus front line

By Saskia Popescu | Disruptive Technologies
Ambulances wait outside an emergency room.

If the coronavirus outbreak grows, can a strained US health care system keep up?

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity

Of quarantines and robots: How smart are US and Chinese efforts to combat the Wuhan coronavirus?

By Saskia Popescu | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies
Nina Pham is discharged from the hospital.

Outbreaks of lethal diseases happen regularly. The US government just cut funding for the hospitals that deal with them

By Saskia Popescu | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of a white blood cell eating an antibiotic resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly known as MRSA. Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The existential threat of antimicrobial resistance

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Doomsday Clock, Technology and Security

The dread and the awe: Crispr’s inventor assesses her creation

By Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Book Review, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Antimicrobial resistance: an underrated biological threat

By Saskia Popescu | Biosecurity, Voices of Tomorrow