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Dr. Rex Archer Honored with PHAB’s Prestigious F. Douglas Scutchfield Leadership Award 

PHAB

Media Contact: Keith Coleman, VP of Communications and Public Affairs KColeman@phaboard.org info@phaboard.org The award is the highest honor bestowed by the Public Health Accreditation Board. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, a passionate public health leader and long-time champion of PHAB who passed away in 2022.

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How do you talk to a whole country about Covid-19? Use a GIF.

Frontiers

Siouxsie Wiles is a microbiologist and award-winning science communicator based at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr Drew Harris (@ drewaharris ), a health policy and population health educator, tweeted a modified version of a CDC graphic showing how protective measures could be used to slow daily cases of a disease.

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Kennedy’s hearings for HHS Secretary start today: What Americans need to know 

Association of Health Care Journalists

The past two weeks have been a dizzying whirlwind of executive orders, halting all health agencies public-facing communications and freezing all federal funding until a federal judges temporary restraining order paused that order. as Health and Human Services Secretary. Kennedy, Jr.