October 10, 2025
In TIME, OHT’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan commented on the importance of vaccination to control the global rise in influenza infections, which researchers feel may be evolving to spread more quickly or earlier than usual in some regions of the world.
“Ramanan Laxminarayan, an economist and epidemiologist who founded D.C.-based public health research organization One Health Trust, tells TIME that vaccination is particularly important for the elderly and other high-risk populations. But he cautions, ‘this approach is dependent on our being able to predict the strains that will cause the following year’s outbreak and include these in the vaccine.’
‘In the longer term, a universal flu vaccine that works across many flu strains and will only have to be taken once in a decade would be the long-term solution,’ Laxminarayan adds, ‘but we are yet to get there.’”
Read it here.
