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Technological advances have transformed public health surveillance toward tracking, managing and taking action in the advents of health crises. Early data collection and statistical methods have ...

Public health officials, medical professionals, and data scientists must get a foot in the door and engage with the federal and state efforts to pass privacy legislation facilitating the use of ...

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 ...

In an interview, the head of Africa CDC, the African Union's health agency, denounces the impact that drastic reductions in ...

A major European survey marks a significant milestone in the effort to control antimicrobial resistance (AMR), providing the ...

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