Public Health & Safety

In 1986, a two-and-a-half year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a stream and drowned. By the time paramedics found her, she hadn’t been breathing for more than an hour. Her heart was stopped....
Most of us overlook the ground beneath our feet. But when Gayatri Datar, 28, looks at the floor, she sees an opportunity to improve public health. A research trip to Rwanda last year, when she was a...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a new...
As Americans continue to embrace pot—as medicine and for recreational use—opponents are turning to a set of academic researchers to claim that policymakers should avoid relaxing restrictions around...
FIREWORKS LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT SKY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE CELEBRATION OF OUR NATION'S INDEPENDENCE. AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE DISPLAYS CAN BE, FIREWORKS CAN STILL BE DANGEROUS. THIS TIME OF YEAR, AN...

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I'm Dr. John Iskandar. Welcome to CDC Beyond the Data. I'm here today with Dr. Wanda Barfield from CDC's Division of Reproductive Health. So, Wanda we heard today an encore presentation on the topic...
What does every human being have in common? We all live here, together. But we're making our world sick. Human activities like burning of fossil fuels release large amounts of greenhouse gases into...

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Next we will be presenting, just flying in from Puerto Rico, Dr. Michael Johansson a biologist with CDC's Dengue Branch and a branch in San Juan, who completed his PhD with Johns Hopkins and today he...

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Well, the emergency procedures guide is a laminated guide that we put together in this district wide. Those guides are located by every campus phone and we even have some employees that request...

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