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Project Firstline Reaches Frontline Healthcare Workforce with Infection Control Training

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted long-standing gaps in infection control knowledge and understanding among the frontline healthcare workforce. Since the onset of the pandemic, healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic-resistant infections have increased, reversing national progress made before 2020. Infectious disease threats like Ebola, COVID-19, and antibiotic resistance will continue to emerge. It’s more important than ever Read More >

October 27, 2021 by Blog AdministratorLeave a comment

Disease Outbreak, General, prevention

American Hospital Association, antibiotic resistance, Community College Collaborative, COVID-19, ebola, healthcare-associated infections, infection control, League for Innovation in the Community College, personal health, Project Firstline, public health, training

NCEZID Labs, Programs Mark 2019 Milestones

Color illustration of a variety of microscopic germs and viruses

The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) faced challenges in 2019, but the year also marked a number of milestones for the center. NCEZID’s annual Accomplishments report recaps those achievements and lays out some of the future challenges. Milestones in Laboratory Science CDC’s high-containment laboratories (HCL), which study some of the world’s Read More >

March 16, 2020 by Rima F. Khabbaz, MD; Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious DiseasesLeave a comment

Disease Investigation, Disease Outbreak, General, response, Vectorborne

drug-resistant infections, ebola, Environmental Health, Foodborne, foodborne illness, high-containment laboratories, Laboratory Response Network, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, NCEZID, personal health, PulseNet, quarantine, rabies, salmonella, vaping, Waterborne, waterborne illness

Responding to Emergencies One Behavior at a Time

A group of Ebola response volunteers in Nigeria.

To improve the health and safety of people in the United States and around the world, we have to influence and change behaviors. It can be difficult to try new things, or stop old things as behaviors range from simple to complex, but one way to consider behavior change is to think of any change Read More >

February 26, 2018 by Dr. Stephen Redd, Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response11 Comments

Communication Research and Evaluation Series, preparedness, prevention, response

behavior, behavior change, behavioral science, ebola, epidemiology, polio, public health, social norms, Zika

10 Ways CDC Gets Ready For Emergencies

One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity to learn from a wide range of experiences. We have an obligation to not only respond to emergencies today, but to prepare for tomorrow by learning from the past. Our work extends to households affected by disease, communities ravaged by disasters, and U.S. territories Read More >

April 3, 2017 by Blog Administrator1 Comment

Disease Outbreak, General, natural disasters, preparedness, response

biosafety, biosecurity, CDC, children, communities, disease, ebola, emergency, Flint, Global Health Security Agenda, H5N1, health, health security, influenza, laboratory, labs, lives, polio, preparedness, public health, school preparedness, State and Local Readiness, stop disease, strategic national stockpile, weather, Zika

Recognizing the Vital Work of Our Nation’s Public Servants

In April 2015, an Ohio doctor made an urgent call to CDC concerning a possible life-threatening botulism outbreak that posed a risk to as many as 50 people who had attended a church potluck dinner. Within hours, CDC, the Ohio Department of Health, and a local hospital had determined that botulism antitoxin was needed to Read More >

September 21, 2016 by Blog AdministratorLeave a comment

preparedness, Preparedness Month

botulism, burel, ebola, medical countermeasures, public health, sammie, strategic national stockpile, Zika

The Power of Preparedness

If there were one thing I’d wish for, it would be the ability to predict when and where the next infectious disease outbreak would occur and stop it before it starts. I can’t do that. And neither can anyone else. At this moment, in addition to combating Zika in the United States and polio in Read More >

September 2, 2016 by Dr. Stephen Redd, Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response4 Comments