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Partner, Train, Respond: Increasing Global Emergency Management Capacity

People walking a busy street in Zanzibar.

Countries in Africa are no strangers to major disease outbreaks that can result in illness and death of millions of people. In the past two years alone the continent has experienced infectious disease outbreaks of cholera, meningitis, Ebola Virus Disease, Lassa fever, and Yellow fever, and other public health emergencies such as drought and famine. Read More >

October 30, 2017 by Loretta Jackson Brown, PhD, RN, Health Communication Specialist and Meredith Pinto, MPH, Health Scientist1 Comment

preparedness, response

africa, exercise, Global Health Security, preparedness, public health, public health emergency management, Public Health Emergency Operations Center, response, sierra leone, Tanzania, training, workforce development

Stockpile Expert Helps Responders Prepare for Emergencies

Tom Jackson at the Cameroon Ebola Treatment Center,

In the United States, most of us take it for granted that if we need medicine – cough syrup, aspirin, or even most antibiotics – we can just run down to the pharmacy and get it. That’s because our medical supply chain – the series of organizations, companies, and systems that make sure those shelves Read More >

February 27, 2017 by Tom Jackson, Senior Training Advisor, CDC Division of Strategic National Stockpile2 Comments

General, PHPR: Health Security in Action, preparedness

global, Global Health Security, medical supply chain, strategic national stockpile