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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Such a response is also essential for creating a more equitable global health community.

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NPHW 2024: CSTE’s DSTT Program Helps Give Health Departments an “Upgrade”

CSTE

First up is Lori Saathoff-Huber , epidemiologist at the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). She supports the communicable disease program with surveillance, outbreak and data analytics projects. Q: How did you first become interested in Epidemiology and Public Health? A: I felt like it was a perfect fit for me.

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Union Budget (2025-26) and comprehensive primary healthcare system: Another lost opportunity?

BMJ Global Health

Considering the persistent threat of emerging infectious diseases and rising burden of non-communicable diseases, there was an expectation that the aftermath of the pandemic would lead to unmitigated efforts to reimagine PHC in India. appeared first on BMJ Global Health blog.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Much is known about the main causes of death and how mortality has been shifting from most deaths around the world being caused by communicable diseases towards most being due to non-communicable causes. However, less is known about the heterogeneity in these causes of death.

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Kelly Thompson – Bringing sex and gender differences to the forefront

Frontiers

By Katharina Stock Dr Kelly Thompson is the Director of Research Operations at the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District in Western Sydney and an active researcher at The George Institute for Global Health. Kelly is currently serving as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Global Women’s Health.

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The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO

Your Local Epidemiologist

The decision raises important questions about the organization’s value and effectiveness, but it also underscores its irreplaceable role in global health—despite its flaws. To promote health, keep people safe, and serve vulnerable populations worldwide. Its mission? Then, there is a scope problem. The result?

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Telehealth on the line: What could happen this spring?

Association of Health Care Journalists

global health policy, including in areas such as drug pricing, medical devices, global health security and non-communicable diseases. In January 2022, Zebley was named by Politico as one of the “Four Washington players poised to shape digital health in 2022.”