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The Novel Adenovirus: A Call for Advances in Health Infrastructure and Pandemic Preparedness

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Faraan Rahim, Bhav Jain, and Sandeep Palakodeti

The next biothreat is inevitable, and the absence of policies to combat it will lead to disaster. The COVID-19 pandemic has revolutionized public health infrastructure in the United States. Health care expenditures have grown at a record-high rate, the development of vaccinations has been streamlined, and the federal government has enacted several policies aimed to support pandemic preparedness through disease

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Governmental Public Health and Its Centrality in the US Public Health System: An Overview

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Harshada Karnik, Rachel Schulman, JP Leider

This entry is part 9 of 43 in the series Wide World of Public Health Systems

Relatively little of our national conversation on health is about public health, which is right in line with our spending on public health; less than 3% of that spending goes toward governmental public health, ie public spending through federal, state, and local agencies and services provided by them. This post is also available on the Region V Public Health Training

To Prevent Overdose Deaths, Buprenorphine Policy Must Change

Posted on March 2, 2020 by jphmpdirect

This entry is part 11 of 18 in the series Big Cities Health Coalition

by Oxiris Barbot, MD This post originally appeared on the Front Lines Blog and is republished here with permission from the Big Cities Health Coalition. New York City successfully bent the curve of overdose deaths in 2018 for the first time in almost a decade. Still, 1,444 people died of drug overdose, leaving behind families and loved ones. The tragedy of this epidemic is

July 2017 Hot Topic: The 2015 New York City Legionaires’ Disease Outbreak: A Case Study on a History-Making Outbreak

Posted on June 4, 2017 by jphmpdirect

The July-August 2017 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (JPHMP) includes “The 2015 New York City Legionaires’ Disease Outbreak: A Case Study on a History-Making Outbreak” authored by Allison Chamberlain, Jonathan Lehnert, and Ruth Berkelman of Emory University School of Public Health. In July of 2015, the Bureau of Communicable Disease of the New York City Department of

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Video Abstract: Authors Discuss Federal Funding of Public Health Law Evaluation in New Study in The Journal of Public Health Management & Practice

Posted on May 24, 2017 by jphmpdirect

The Journal of Public Health Management & Practice sat down with Jennifer Ibrahim, PhD, the lead author of “Supporting a Culture of Evidence-Based Policy: Federal Funding for Public Health Law Evaluation Research, 1985-2014.” In their new study, Dr. Ibrahim, along with colleagues at Temple University Scott Burris, JD, and Heidi Grunwald, PhD, and Aaron Sorensen, MS at UberResearch, assessed trends

North Carolina Pediatrician Julie Linton Advocating on Behalf of Immigrant Children

Posted on May 11, 2017 by jphmpdirect

Public Health Advocacy and Policy Watch profiles academics, practitioners, and other public health leaders calling for legislative reform to address the changing needs of public health. Julie M. Linton, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Wake Forest School of Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Immigrant Health Special Interest Group, is joining her colleagues at AAP to call on legislators in

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Health Department Leaders Urged to Stand Against a Repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Sheryl Monks

Both the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) are urging their members to stand against the proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which could severely jeopardize the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF). In a statement posted on its website, NACCHO recently offered PPHF talking

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APHA Health Administration Section Partners With JPHMP to Present Inaugural Research to Practice Award

Posted on November 14, 2016 by jphmpdirect

PUTTING RESEARCH TO PRACTICE On Nov. 1, members of the APHA Health Administration Section and the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice met at the Health Administration Section Social and Awards ceremony at APHA in Denver to celebrate and honor the first winner of the Research to Practice Award. Discussion of implementing this new collaborative award between the Health

Public Health Is Inherently Political

Posted on November 1, 2016 by jphmpdirect

by Justin B. Moore, PhD, MS As I learned while teaching my first undergraduate public health course in 2004, public health is inherently political. In attempting to present the material in an apolitical manner, I failed miserably, (as indicated by my teaching evaluations). Contributing to my failure was undoubtedly the raging presidential election, my red state address, and my relatively

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Highlights of Sep. 2016 Issue

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jphmpdirect

by Lloyd F. Novick, MD, MPH As DeGroff and colleagues point out in their article “Using Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Cancer Screening in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program,” the Affordable Care Act, with its expansion of insurance to 24 million individuals, has removed barriers to cancer screening. This legislation has required many plans to require preventive