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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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CSTE Hill Update: July 2024

CSTE

Eliminates the Climate and Health program and Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. Reduces funding for CDC's global health program. The voices of those directly impacted by public health policies are crucial in shaping a healthier future for our communities.

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From anti-antibiotics to extinction therapy: how evolutionary thinking can transform medicine

Frontiers

“Our aim is to drive new biomedical innovations and effective public health measures, for everything from infectious disease and pandemics to cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease,” said Prof Daniel Blumstein of the University of California, Los Angeles. However, this approach of changing health behaviors doesn’t always work.

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RFK Jr. issues rule barring public comment on HHS rulemaking

The Hill

This move comes shortly after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) postponed a key meeting held by the vaccine committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), saying at the time that it was delayed to "accommodate public comment in advance of the meeting." Lawrence O.

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Political climate linked with Georgia women’s mental health outcomes, Emory study finds

HEALTHBEAT

As somebody whos a woman of reproductive age living here, it seems that a lot of the restrictions related to abortion access are salient here, she said.

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Global Health 2050: Cutting premature deaths in half by mid-century

Berkeley Public Health

Professor Stefano Bertozzi is a co-author of a new, landmark report that offers a roadmap to reduce the risk of premature death around the globe.

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Dr. Anete Muxlhanga’s Mission: Local, Data-Driven Solutions for Maternal Health in Mozambique

Maternal Health Task Force

The interconnected challenges of maternal health, HIV, and healthcare inequities call for a paradigm shift in global health researchone that prioritizes regions like Mozambique and passes the torch to local actors. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 70% of global maternal deaths , yet only 1.3%