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New report: Shortfall of big city health detectives poses serious threat to public health response

Big Cities Health Coalition

The paucity of injury and violence prevention epidemiologists is especially striking, as unintentional injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

A decent example of how a sustained, multilevel, and multicomponent intervention can impact a complex health and social issue, with high cost-effectiveness Alison Hadley – Implementing the United Kingdom’s ten-year teenage pregnancy strategy for England (1999-2010): How was this done and what did it achieve?