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COVID-19: Immunity and contact tracing

…And lastly, we need to scale up our public health workforce to identify cases where they’re occurring and to trace the contacts of each case, and I’ll talk more about that step next. So what is this scaling up of contact tracing? Contact tracing is a core public health tool. This is not new. Public…

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End of the COVID-19 federal public health emergency: What’s next

…“It’s totally warranted that the state of public health emergency is being relaxed because it’s not appropriate to live under a perpetual state of emergency. And as the viewers know, COVID is becoming milder. So, it’s the right time to drop the public health emergency. But we’ve seen with influenza that some seasons are worse…

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The pandemic’s impacts on children

…those, like socioeconomic inequality, health disparities and stress. We really need to increase mental health literacy among all the adults that are working with children so they can promote healthy development and also recognize early signs that a child may need more support. We need to reduce stigma around mental health and increase listening to…

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Pregnancy-related death in the United States

…is now growing recognition of racism as a public health emergency and underlying driver of inequitable outcomes. Along with other systems of oppression that preferentially treat some and marginalize others, racism shapes the social and political determinants of health that are directly linked to poor health. While we are mostly discussing pregnancy-related death in this…

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COVID-19 vaccines: regulation, allocation, & hesitancy

…line is that that’s going to happen very close to the ground with your state health department, your county health officers and even your municipal health officers. Part of it will depend on how they’re distributing it. They might be distributing it primarily through clinics and pharmacies, or it may also be that individual physicians…

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Childhood hunger before and after COVID

…And you all should know that WIC is an incredibly popular and important public health program. Almost 50% of the newborns in America are participating in the WIC program. So it’s incredible reach of public health, but it should also tell you how prevalent poverty is in this country. But it’s also important to remember…

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Cannabis: Health effects and regulatory issues

…of cannabis in some U.S. states has highlighted the importance of understanding the substance’s health effects. At SciLine’s media briefing, three experts discussed what is known, based on scientific research, about the effects of cannabis use on human health, including its therapeutic potential, its short- and long-term health impacts, and consequences of its use by…

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Coping and recovering from natural disasters

…think is really interesting, though, and that epidemiologic research has investigated – and there’s a great review out there by Goldmann and Galea published in the 2014 Annual Review of Public Health – are these other mental health conditions that do not have exposure as a prerequisite and which have been shown to be elevated…

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COVID-19: Learning from the past, defining our future

…senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine and past president of the American Public Health Association. And she’s going to talk about the U.S. health inequities that COVID-19 has so painfully highlighted over the past year and the potential consequences of American society either facing or continuing to ignore those issues…

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COVID-19: Immunity and contact tracing

End of the COVID-19 federal public health emergency: What’s next

The pandemic’s impacts on children

Pregnancy-related death in the United States

COVID-19 vaccines: regulation, allocation, & hesitancy

Childhood hunger before and after COVID

Cannabis: Health effects and regulatory issues

Coping and recovering from natural disasters

COVID-19: Learning from the past, defining our future