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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

At the same time, we can also see positive examples of this: Angela Glover Blackwell refers to the “curb cut effect,” which highlights how investing in one group (in this scenario, those in wheelchairs) affects the broader well-being of a community (making sidewalks more accessible for those pushing strollers, for example).

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Priority Pathogens: The disease families which require urgent scientific research

UK Health Security

Attempts to prioritise pathogens have become even more common since the Covid-19 pandemic, and lists generated by the likes of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) are helping to support the co-ordination of global preparedness efforts.

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Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate

HEALTHBEAT

CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet [and] FluID, that theyve been providing information [on] for many, many years, Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at the WHO, said at a Wednesday press briefing.

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Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate

KFF Health News

. “CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet [and] FluID, that they’ve been providing information [on] for many, many years,” Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at the WHO, said at a Feb. 12 press briefing.