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Dr. Irwin Redlener, a columnist for the Daily Beast, is the Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness as well as a Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, a Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Public Health Analyst for NBC/MSNBC. Dr. Redlener is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We’re Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now as well as The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for 21st Century America.

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opinion

Ukraine's Child Refugees Need Help. Here’s How To Do It.

NOW IS THE TIME

We need to think innovatively, and plan quickly, to help the young victims of the war rebuild their lives.

Irwin Redlener, Karen Redlener | Published May 11, 2022
opinion

Putin’s War on Children Is an Atrocity for the Ages

THE WORST OF WAR CRIMES

Russia’s indiscriminate murder of civilians, including women and children, demands a global humanitarian response.

Irwin Redlener | Published Mar 18, 2022
opinion

Let’s Give DeSantis the Bolsonaro Treatment

ENOUGH

Sovereign immunity can’t be a get-out-of-jail-free card for officials whose negligence, dereliction of duty and actions cost lives.

Irwin Redlener | Published Oct 29, 2021
opinion

To Save American Lives, Biden Needs to Ask for Trump’s Help

TRUMP CARD?

Our progress in controlling the pandemic comes from an unlikely collaboration between both men. Trump, who got many big decisions wrong, was right about vaccines and should say so.

Irwin Redlener | Published Jul 14, 2021
opinion

Here’s How to Clear Up CDC Communications Confusion

BOTTOM LINE

The science is strong, but the messaging has been muddled. To fix that, focus on the things Americans miss the most and create a federal vaccine verification system.

Irwin Redlener, Sean Hansen | Published May 24, 2021
opinion

4 Things Biden Can Do Now to Protect Children at the Border

SAME ‘CRISIS,’ NEW APPROACH

It won’t be easy, but here are concrete steps matching Biden’s new approach he can take now that would help relieve pressures in the system and minimize the trauma to children.

Irwin Redlener | Published Mar 16, 2021
opinion

GOP Emerges as Public Health Threat as Second Dem Gets Virus

MEGASPREADER

She called out the “selfish idiocy” of the Republicans who not only refused to wear masks but mocked their Democratic colleagues for doing so.

Irwin Redlener | Published Jan 12, 2021
opinion

Biden Must Be Ready for Disaster. We Mean That Literally.

IT NEVER ENDS

COVID is just the beginning. Hurricanes and wildfires and other climate-related crises are going to take more of the next president’s time than he can imagine.

Irwin Redlener, Sean Hansen, Jeff Schlegelmilch | Published Dec 16, 2020
opinion

It’s Time for Trump’s Top Doctors to Step Down and Speak Up

ENOUGH

An open letter from a colleague to Drs. Anthony Fauci, Robert Redfield, Deborah Birx, Brett Giroir, Robert Kadlec, Steven Hahn.

Irwin Redlener | Published Oct 15, 2020
opinion

Incredibly, Our Border Policy Just Got Even Crueler

BECAUSE OF COURSE IT DID

Since the spring, the U.S. Border Patrol has fast-tracked the deportation of more than 100,000 families and individuals. In the process, we’re exporting COVID overseas.

Irwin Redlener, Sean Hansen | Published Aug 29, 2020

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