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The museum was founded in 1996 as the Global Health Odyssey Museum. This was done during the 50th anniversary of the CDC and coincided with the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In 2011, the museum was renamed the David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
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It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The agency's main goal is the protection of public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and worldwide. [ 4 ]
Global Health Action is a peer-reviewed open access journal publishing research on global health. Global Health Action is published by Taylor & Francis in partnership and a 50/50 ownership agreement with Umeå University, Sweden. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact factor of 2.996.
Five pediatric deaths were reported during the week of Dec. 21, bringing the total number to nine so far during the 2024-25 season. The CDC says levels of the COVID-19 virus being detected in ...
The organization was co-founded by global health pioneer and former CDC Director, Dr. William Foege and two of his former CDC colleagues, Carol Walters and Bill Watson. It was founded in 1984 as The Task Force for Child Survival. [15] The Task Force was initially launched to foster collaboration among leading health and development agencies.
Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is a private, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. DGH's stated mission is "To improve health and foster other human rights with those most in need by accompanying communities, while educating and inspiring others to action."
The Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize is awarded by the King Center. [7]A non-exhaustive list of recipients includes: Cesar Chavez (1973); Stanley Levison and Kenneth Kaunda (1978); Rosa Parks (1980); Martin Luther King Sr. and Richard Attenborough (1983); Corazon Aquino (1987); Mikhail Gorbachev (1991); and, on April 4, 2018 – the 50th anniversary of King's assassination – Ben ...