The British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently published an open access article about reconceptualizing precision public health. The article suggests that the current paradigm of precision public health is at risk of becoming precision medicine at a population…
By Duncan Stephenson, Deputy Chief Executive, Royal Society of Public Health In the fall of 2018, the residents of the United Kingdom’s northern city of Grimsby could have been forgiven for choking on their breakfast…
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has developed new maternal immunization patient education resources! Through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ACOG has developed free infographics and corresponding text…
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which provides the latest estimates of vaccination rates among adolescents in the United States. The key findings from…
A survey of healthcare providers reveals several different strategies to minimize measles virus exposures in outpatient healthcare facilities. New York City has experienced the largest measles outbreak in the United States since 1992. The NYC…
The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2020-2021 year. At the Harvard Medical School, Boston, applications are now being accepted for…
The Washington Post recently debuted “The Vaccines Project,” a new video series explaining the origins of vaccines and how they’ve changed through time. The first episode looks at the history of vaccines and vaccine hesitancy.…
The Merck Foundation (the Foundation) has launched HIV Care Connect, a $7 million, five-year initiative to help reduce disparities in access to care and improve health outcomes for persons with HIV living in vulnerable and…
AIDS United developed a new resource entitled Meaningful Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS (MIPA). MIPA was developed to ensure that the communities most affected by HIV are involved in decision-making at every level of the…
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law‘s new issue brief, Community Experience Offers Lessons for Expanding Access to Syringe Services Programs, provides communities and policymakers with information they can use to build needed support for…