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What is Public Health? Advancing our Profession in Uncertain Times

Better Health For All

In recent years we have seen a concerning global trend away from evidence-based policies designed to protect and improve health. A recent editorial in The Lancet explores these issues, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and concerning moves by major tech and social media companies to reverse fact-checking policies.

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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.

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Clearing up confusion on drug price rules and revisions

Association of Health Care Journalists

The topics covered in Trumps orders ranged from future pandemic preparedness to withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, who spoke with NBC News. Dusetzina, Ph.D., 1, remain unaffected by Trumps executive actions.