Public health is a realm of science and fact and deals in matters of life and death. The pandemic brought misinformation about health to new levels, fostering lingering distrust of public health ...

In 1976, I was a high school student eating breakfast with my father when news broke that the CDC had solved the Legionella mystery by discovering a new microbe. My father, a quiet, thoughtful ...

On the heels of this year's Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, executives from two health information exchanges have shared with ...

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...

The Trump administration, with the complicity of Congress, has brought on deep disruptions of vital public health functions ...

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Covid-19 was a severe test for our public health system. It laid bare many challenges and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to furlough 41% of its workforce if Congress fails to prevent a looming government shutdown, suspending critical functions ...

A quarter of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff is gone after the Trump administration’s latest reductions ...

Public health experts fear critical programmes for disease prevention and detection could be lost or downgraded with looming budget cuts at the National Public Health Service. A document leaked to RNZ ...