Category: women’s health

“The Human Element”

Rachael Zacks interviewing community health workers in Rohingya camp.

Rachael’s work in Bangladesh took place August – September 2019, before COVID-19 emerged. The setting was ideal. We were on the top floor of a hotel where a training was being held in the Fall of 2019. Our chairs overlooked the expansive beach of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and we had just finished a light snack Read More >

Posted on by Rachael Zacks, MD, CDC EIS officer
Categories global health security, women's/maternal health
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October 29 is World Stroke Day!

On October 29, 2014, for World Stroke Day, the World Stroke Organization will launch a new campaign around women and stroke. Every year 3.2 million women die of strokes globally, including more than 75,000 women in the United States, and thousands of other women are suffer long-term disabilities resulting from stroke.  The “I Am Woman” campaign Read More >

Posted on by Mary G. George1 Comment
Categories Archive, cardiovascular disease, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), women's/maternal health
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