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MRT-TI alum Brenda Vieyra breaking barriers in Latina/x breastfeeding

UNC Epidemiology Blog

October 14, 2024 Brenda Vieyra, IBCLC, is a graduate of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute’s Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative (MRT-TI) class of 2017-2018. Since her days as an undergraduate public health student at California State University, Northridge, she was interested in infant and maternal health.

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Podcast From Washington: Update on H5N1 and Local Health Department Pilot Program Addresses Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy

The NACCHO Podcast Series

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that local health departments connect individuals to testing if they observe an increase in sick animals and farmworkers, utilize CDC communication resources, and ensure that farms and farmworkers have access to PPE.

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The beginning and end of Monday Morning

Monday Morning

Messonnier is eminently qualified by virtue of her training, including the Epidemiologic Intelligence Service, her more than 20 years’ experience of leadership in infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and her recent leadership of pandemic preparedness and health systems at the Skoll Foundation.