Public Health Survived the Pandemic. Now It Fights Politics.
Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with ...
Five years since the pandemic began, covid may now be endemic, experts say
The pandemic may be over, but the endemic disease is still a threat, especially for older adults and those with certain risk ...
Improving Healthcare With a Leading Public Health Education
Tangney, a Master of Science in Public Health student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International Health’s Health Systems Program, was raised by a single ...
5 Years Ago: COVID-19 named public health emergency by W.H.O.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization had determined the outbreak was a public health emergency. It was the ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...
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Health as a Private and Public Responsibility
Creating a healthier world, then, is the responsibility of both the public and private sectors. Health is too important not ...
Where did U.S. public health go wrong?
The field’s failure to integrate medical services in the mid-20th century set the stage for its current troubles ...
RFK Jr.'s Limits on Rule Comments Have Risk for Medicaid, Grants
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to abandon a 54-year-old policy that allowed public comment on a variety of health ...
Major medical groups push back against Trump administration's 'sex-based definitions'
Follow President Donald Trump's executive order, the Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidance that recognizes only two sexes.
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New HHS Definition of Sex Excludes Transgender and Intersex People
The HHS published guidance that narrowly defined sex and denied the existence of people who identify as transgender, intersex ...
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R.I. bill would tweak definition of misdemeanor to avoid deportation for lesser crimes
The bill would change the definition of a misdemeanor to be an ... Neronha “believes that this bill raises public safety concerns. In the event the General Assembly passes it, we will deal ...
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Critics say Kentucky Senate Bill 89 could undermine Commonwealth’s water quality, risking public health
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Some Kentucky lawmakers want to weaken protections for waterways many residents depend on for drinking water. Senate Bill 89, which would narrow the definition of ...