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Podcast from Washington: NACCHO Global Health Security Podcast Part 1: Duncan Stephenson Chief Executive for the Royal Society for Public Health

The NACCHO Podcast Series

main streets, with a final report coming out in early 2020. This model uses data to score shops found on UK High Streets to create a measure to determine the “healthiness or unhealthiness” of 70 UK towns and cities. This model is now migrating to the United States to rank the healthiness or unhealthiness of U.S. context.

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How well did the EU respond to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic? Experts now give their verdict

Frontiers

For the study, the authors interviewed 18 public health experts from individual EU countries as well as from the European Commission. The interviews occurred during or shortly after the first wave of the pandemic, between May and August of 2020. Read original article ?

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WHO defends global health, security role after Trump withdrawal

The Hill

President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term announcing his intent to withdraw from the WHO , citing what he referred to as "the organizations mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises."

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Trump signs order to withdraw U.S. from WHO

The Hill

has historically been the largest funder of the Geneva-based organization, which is a branch of the United Nations responsible for combating global public health emergencies. Public health experts fear the move will weaken the organization as well as global health security.