All of this is made easier with strong institutions and a strong public health work force.
Some estimates suggest we are 80,000 public health workers short across the United States to meet basic public health needs.
To this day some of our public health data systems are reliant on old fax machines.
The responsibility of the public health community and its leaders to articulate strategy and communicate regularly with the public has also never been more apparent.
We felt our primary audience was mostly health scientists, academics and public health practitioners, and our initial pandemic messages were frequently speaking to those scientifically attuned.
Persons:
leaders, , underfunding
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, Chickasaw Nation
Locations:
United, United States, Bronx, Montana, Chickasaw, Oklahoma, Guam