In 1976, I was a high school student eating breakfast with my father when news broke that the CDC had solved the Legionella mystery by discovering a new microbe. My father, a quiet, thoughtful ...

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This ...

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Covid-19 was a severe test for our public health system. It laid bare many challenges and ...

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

Public health experts fear critical programmes for disease prevention and detection could be lost or downgraded with looming budget cuts at the National Public Health Service. A document leaked to RNZ ...