Sentences with phrase «lacking public health infrastructure»

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«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Garrett takes on public health: the desperate inadequacy of public - health infrastructure in much of the developing world and the shocking neglect of that infrastructure in «developed» nations, from the relatively simple inadequacies revealed by the 1994 Ebola epidemic in Zaire to a nuanced analysis of the issues involved in the near - total collapse of public health in the former USSR and the years - long underfunding and lack of respect for this key government responsibility in the U.S.

The lack of public funding for education, health care, physical infrastructure and scientific research directly hurts our ability to compete in the world.