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Workers laid off from CDC gather at Capitol to urge Georgia officials to defend them

HEALTHBEAT

Sonya Arundar said she received an email Saturday evening saying she was being let go from her job as a health communicator at the Public Health Infrastructure Center. Uncertainty over USAIDs global health aid impacts Atlanta-based nonprofits Prior to being hired as a full-time employee on Dec.

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“Remember Every One” Memorializing the More Than 1 Million Lives Lost to COVID-19 in the US

BU School of Public Health Blog

Public health communications and advocacy have been Keeves’ bread and butter since her days at SPH when she served as a teaching assistant for the Strategies in Public Health Advocacy course.

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COVID-19 in 2025: ‘A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One’

BU School of Public Health Blog

Since 2020, the school community has studied and highlighted the broader lessons this global crisis has taught usincluding the need for greater investment in public health infrastructure; clear, consistent, and tailored health communication and messaging; and a rebuilding of trust in science , largely fractured by an ever-increasing partisan divide.