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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

Quality health care should not have borders. 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. The fields differ, however, in their area of focus.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. That was far from its only purpose.

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CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. The programs are designed to cultivate a new generation of public health leaders, many of whom have gone on to work at the CDC. Its purely for the safety of the public at the end of the day, Cruanes said.