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Public Health
A recent study showed that bees are dying at an alarming rate not only in the United States but all over the world, leading to serious implications for global food security.
How does transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occur—via droplet or aerosol (or both)? Understanding the answers will guide policy, especially around universal masking, by helping us understand if masking is effective to stop transmission.
As government officials around the world have been using “expert models” to determine the next course of action in the COVID-19 pandemic, CAHFS Summer Scholars have been learning to think critically about what meaningful information disease outbreak models can actually provide.
Veterinary public health and preventive medicine residents have contributed to COVID-19 response initiatives in human and veterinary medicine, worker safety, monitoring and evaluation, and infection control.
In this week’s reflection, I’ll discuss the conditions and beliefs we deem more important than others and how they influence complacency, action, and even hierarchical responses to chronic racism, pandemics, or urgent threats to patriotism.
The death of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that structural racism is woven into how our country functions, and have revealed overt unfairness and privilege.
Much of the flawed pandemic response can be traced to inexcusably poor systems thinking.
