Bobby Brooke Herrera / Phd / Ebola Zika

"We can no longer rely on staccato funding from one threat to another to build the public health infrastructure. Among the reasons we are (here) is because the public health infrastructure was frail," Walensky says to APHA's Georges Benjamin#COVID19Conversations 

While they won't predict the future, they are preparing for it Slavitt says. "We can all wish for this to be the last wave, but we wouldn't be doing our jobs if weren't actively focused on containment measures for the variants." #COVID19Conversations 

LISTERIA OUTBREAK UPDATE: Do not eat any El Abuelito brand cheeses, in addition to the recalled queso fresco. These cheeses are made or handled in the same facility and could be contaminated. 3 new illnesses were reported this week.

19 March. Less than a month to the next Global Strike for Climate! ✊ 📣 Are you joining the fight for climate justice and the call for #NoMoreEmptyPromises ? Learn more and find the strike nearest you >>

"Protecting the health of all Americans requires us to recognize that the health threat anywhere is a health threat everywhere," says @CDCDirector  #COVID19Conversations 

Tomorrow's Prioritizing Equity panel will discuss how trauma-informed approaches impact advancing equity among minoritized and marginalized communities during #COVID19 . Join @ltonil , @No_More_Martyrs , @ajcalac  and guest moderator, @MiaKeeys  on Feb 25!

Incredible 25% reduction in stillbirths and 30% reduction in neonatal deaths between 2010 and 2019. This won’t get the attention it deserves at the moment, but just think what it means...1/3

RIP Radical Poet and Revolutionary Publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)

“We are facing the biggest hunger and education crisis in history." - @BurbanoCarmen , director of school feeding at WFP, discusses the impact of 39 billion missed meals in 2020. 👇

In a global pandemic, no one is safe until everyone is safe. COVAX—a global vaccine coalition—is working to get safe COVID-19 vaccines to those who want them.