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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

The premise is “very encouraging,” says Idowu, who aspires to use her training in program management and global health to strategize with healthcare leaders, decision-makers, and providers to support holistic wellbeing, a vision of wellbeing that encompasses not only physical and mental health, but also spiritual and relational health.

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Will Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?

The Health Care Blog

Slowly policy leaders were awakening to the global nature of the threat. Bush administration in 2003 created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEP FAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). But as Ebola and SARS arrived in the early days of the new millennium, the scientific community in the U.S. The George W.

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Mpox (Monkeypox) Outbreaks 2024: What To Know About The Global Health Emergency

Gideon

The most unusual disease outbreak of mpox occurred in 2003 when 81 humans in the American Midwest were infected through contact with infected prairie dogs – themselves infected by rodents imported from Ghana. Public Health, vol. Fortunately, all patients recovered and did not face longer-term effects of the infection.