Sentences with phrase «global health security»
Please join us as Dr. Thomas C. Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Ms. Laura Holgate, (invited) Senior Director, WMD Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council, discuss the administration's launch of the new Global Health Security Agenda at 1:00 pm on Thursday, February 13, at CSIS in the 2nd floor Exxon - Mobil Conference Room.
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The Ebola crisis in West Africa has quickly grown into the most difficult health security problem faced by the modern world, but it is also providing opportunities to better prepare nations for future health emergencies, said speakers at a recent conference on global health security in Washington, D.C.
He is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Health Security, Chatham House, London, and also works as an independent consultant.
Developing nations, lacking public health infrastructure, are often hit hardest; yet global health security relies on strong human and animal health systems of all nations.
Disease Diplomacy International Norms and Global Health Security Sara E. Davies, Adam Kamradt - Scott, and Simon Rushton Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2015 Paperback: 191 pp.
Rather than just respond to outbreaks like Ebola — although we have to do that, and we have — let's also strengthen public health systems and advance global health security to prevent epidemics in the first place....
Center for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden participates in a discussion about «Zika, the Olympics, and Global Health Security: A Marathon Against a Microbe» at New America July 13, 2016 in Washington, DC.
An editorial in the January 9 issue of The Lancet journal calls Zika an emerging virus that poses a threat to global health security.
The UK should be resilient to health crises and be a major contributor to global health security.
The purpose of the fellowship program is to enhance training of graduates of ASPPH member schools and programs of public health with an interest in global health, HIV / AIDS, and global health security.
The Launch of the Global Health Security Agenda 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm (EST) February 21, 2014 Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Ave NW Washington, D.C., 20036 Please join us as Dr. Thomas C. Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and...
Pres. Obama had announced the initiative late last month at the Global Health Security Summit in Washington, D.C., and his administration has said they want to field any new innovations within months.
«The Budget provides resources to support the Global Health Security Agenda, increases funding to eradicate polio and other global health challenges, and creates a new Impact Fund for targeted global HIV / AIDS efforts,» the fact sheet states.
The United States recently developed a policy for dual - use research in the biological sciences, according to DiEuliis, and the policymaking process incorporated international discussions organized by the World Health Organization and the Global Health Security Initiative.
What is missing is a political commitment for UK science to fulfil its potential in national and global health security, backed by sustained funding.
Frieden says the CDC in partnership with other countries is accelerating its Global Health Security program, which will increase preparedness worldwide.
This is currently a huge problem in medicine — the World Health Organization calls it a «threat to global health security.»
f) «Global health security» refers to activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries and includes the efforts of the Global Health Security Agenda to establish capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats, whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental.