Vanderwagen was the founding assistant secretary for preparedness and response and is now an instructor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-chair of the National Academies Forum on ...

In the 2009 H1N1 response, the CDC administered funds to all 50 state health departments and additional localities in the form of the Public Health Emergency Response (PHER) grant, which was reported ...

Future pandemics will likely emerge from animals. Strengthening animal health systems, improving surveillance, and embedding ...

In April, I attended the annual gathering in San Antonio of public health workers devoted to emergency preparedness and response. Not one of the 2,500 people in attendance — from those employed by ...

After recent moves by the US Department of Health and Human Services to restrict the approval and use of some vaccines — and ...

The University of Delaware’s epidemiology program in the College of Health Sciences and the Disaster Research Center (DRC) have been awarded more than $700,000 from the Centers for Disease Control ...

In parallel, Guyana began weekly reporting of surveillance data to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) via FluNet and ...

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Principal Secretary for Public Health and Professional Standards, Mary Muthoni, chaired a consultative meeting with the Kenya Red Cro ...

WINONA, Minn. — Winona County Emergency Management and Public Health hosted a crucial two-day training event on June 17 and ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is forming a Screwworm response team to fight the invasive worm's expected return to Texas.

Newly appointed Whole Health commissioner Jennie Sutcliffe now steers Tompkins County’s health services following her ...