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The CDC is a US federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is considered the leading national public health institute in the United States. Its main goal is to protect public health by controlling and preventing disease, disability, and injury. [21] [38] Malaria (initially) United States (Atlanta, Georgia) 1947: Crisis
A. Action on Smoking and Health; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; Alliance for Healthy Cities; American Association of Public Health Dentistry
Lisa K. Fitzpatrick, epidemiologist and public health expert, lecturer at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences [296] Maria Floro, economist, professor emerita of Economics at American University [278] Catherine Coleman Flowers, environmental health researcher [288]
First African-American woman to be the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health: Dr. Ngozi Ezike [341] First African-American general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Peter M. Johnson; First African-American (and first historian) secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: Lonnie Bunch [342]
On 18 December, the WHO indicated that it still considered Ebola in Western Africa a public health emergency, though progress had been made. [169] After having completed the 42 days, Liberia was declared free from the virus on 14 January 2016, effectively ending the outbreak that had started in neighbouring Guinea two years earlier.
Harvard University has four Black women faculty deans for the first time in history: Michelle Ann Williams (School of Public Health), Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study), Bridget Terry Long (Graduate School of Education), and Claudine Gay (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).
State of public health emergency: Last declared in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. State of calamity : Last national declaration was in 2020–21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and later, the outbreak of African swine fever virus in several provinces and regions of the country, as well as Super Typhoon ...
Research on the "Hispanic paradox"—the well-established apparent mortality advantage of Hispanic Americans compared to White Americans, despite the latter's more advantaged socioeconomic status—has been principally explained by "(1) health-related migration to and from the US; and (2) social and cultural protection mechanisms, such as ...