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How global travel affects the spread of infectious disease

Gideon

A single night in a Hong Kong hotel sparked a global SARS outbreak in 2003, forever changing how we view disease transmission. Today’s aviation networks can transport infectious diseases worldwide within 36 hours, creating unprecedented challenges for global health security.

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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

In this week’s episode of Podcast from Washington, Ian Goldstein and Eli Briggs discuss the Senate Appropriations Committee’s release of its FY2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill. They also discuss the federal crackdown on flavored e-cigarettes and the latest news on the vaping illness.

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Welcome to our New ProMED-EAFR Moderators

20th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

Jimale has multiple TOT experience in the fields of Lecturing, Andragogy, Curriculum Development, Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM), Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC), International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR), Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), Antimicrobial Resistant/Use, Sphere project, Water Health and Sanitation (WASH), (..)

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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

At the EU member state level, global health security should become (again) a critical item on their national health agendas,” says Gontariuk.

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Podcast from Washington: Global Health Security Podcast Part 2 Adopting Vector Control Initiatives to a U.S. Context with Dr. Umair Shah

The NACCHO Podcast Series

Later in the program, Emily Yox, NACCHO’s program analyst for global health, sits down with Dr. Umair Shah, former NACCHO President and Executive Director for Harris County Public Health in Texas, to discuss several health department programs that were inspired by successful global health work.

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Anti-AIDS program in GOP crosshairs over abortion funding 

The Hill

chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Security and Diplomacy Bureau, called the revelation just the tip of the iceberg and vowed investigations into PEPFARs programs. Chris Smith (R-N.J.),

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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. He collaborated with senior leadership from HHS, the White House and other cabinet departments to develop, advise and promote U.S.