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Developing Laboratory Leadership Despite War: GLLP Graduates First Ukrainian Cohort

APHL

On the day the war broke out, while others were sheltering in place, Iryna Seroshtan, director of the Chernihiv Regional State Laboratory, went to her laboratory to preserve files, secure laboratory animals infected with dangerous diseases like rabies and tuberculosis and protect microorganisms and test cultures while also locking down the premises.

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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

During the current pandemic specifically, the weak position of the ECDC and the Directorate-General for Heath and Food Safety to contribute to a coordinated response became again painfully obvious due to a weak and inconsistent mandate on health for the EU institutions,” adds second author Prof Dr Thomas Krafft, also of Maastricht University.

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Why cuts to global AIDS relief threaten U.S. health, economic growth, and physical security

HEALTHBEAT

Journalists and foreign policy experts have written extensively about the suffering caused by the Trump administrations decision to halt food, health care, and other forms of assistance to some of the poorest people in the world. foreign health assistance, such as through the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

KFF Health News

Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems, including a deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions. Case in point: The U.S.

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How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

HEALTHBEAT

Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems, including a deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions. Case in point: The U.S.