The Diseases of The Oregon Trail
By Michelle Forman, Senior Media Specialist, APHL Anyone who was in grade-school in the mid-1980s and 1990s likely remembers The Oregon Trail, a computer game…
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Hawaii’s Unique Public Health Challenges: Rat Lungworm
By Caitlin Saucier, CDC/APHL Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Training Fellow, State Laboratories Division, Hawaii Department of Health One of the best perks of living in a…
The State of America’s Health
By Asha Farrah, Associate Specialist, Newborn Screening & Genetics, APHL After attending a lunch briefing on America’s 2011 Health Rankings at the National Press Club in…
World AIDS Day 2011: Stop the Spread of HIV
By Tam Van, PhD, Manager, HIV, Hepatitis, STD & TB Programs, APHL December 1st celebrates the annual observance of World AIDS Day, a global initiative started…
How Newborn Screening Saved Two Little Girls
By Beate Weiss-Krull “What is that test this pamphlet is referring to?” I asked my husband after our oldest daughter Alena was born in 2003. I…
A Story of Life, Loss, and Advocacy
By Jennifer Garcia My name is Jennifer Garcia, and my husband John and I would like you to meet our two sons, Gavin who is…
Saving the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN)
By Nancy Maddox, MPH 9/11 and the ensuing anthrax attacks were tragedies of historic proportion. But in the wake of tragedy, some good did emerge.…
The Status of Federal Appropriations: It does not look good
By Peter Kyriacopoulos, Senior Director of Public Policy, APHL On April 15, 2011, the president signed the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act,…