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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

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

preparedness, Preparedness Month

disease, ebola, flu, polio, preparedness, public health, Zika

Stepping Up to Take Down Polio

Men painting billboard for polio vaccination campaign

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease that is completely preventable. Since 1988, members of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), including CDC, the World Health Organization (WHO), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary, and UNICEF, have teamed up to eradicate polio world-wide through large scale vaccination efforts. Global polio cases are down more Read More >

December 14, 2011 by Ali S. Khan1 Comment

General, response

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, polio, Rotary, UNICEF, WHO

Battling Polio in Africa: Part 3, Long Days, Tedious Work, But So Rewarding

Note: This is Ted’s final posting about his experiences in Ghana volunteering for the Stop the Transmission of Polio (STOP) project during February, March, and April 2010. He returned home on May 1. VOLTA, April 20, 2010 — Ghana is broken into a number of regions, and I was deployed to three of them. After Read More >

May 19, 2010 by Ted Pestorius4 Comments

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ghana, polio, stop program

Battling Polio in Africa: Part 2, People Here are Resourceful, Generous

Note: This is the second in a series about Ted’s experiences in Ghana volunteering for the Stop the Transmission of Polio (STOP) project during February, March, and April 2010. VOLTA, April 20, 2010 — During my time here in Ghana, I’ve met some wonderful public health people who are earnestly trying to make a difference. Read More >

May 17, 2010 by Ted Pestorius1 Comment