Governmental public health agencies in the US are understaffed, and ongoing shortages will have a detrimental effect on their ability to provide basic public health services and protections. Public ...

May 26, 2022 – The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in public health infrastructure, related to chronic underfunding. Yet the pandemic has also opened opportunities for strengthening the Foundational ...

As the U.S. continues to face complex public health challenges, a new paper published by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health calls for a redefinition of the public ...

Washington public health departments will see a slight reduction in state funding for basic services over the next two years, but the severity and local impacts of that loss on the Kitsap Peninsula ...

May 11—OLYMPIA — The state's public health system may look a bit different by next year after Gov. Jay Inslee signed a law Monday that would require local health boards to change their membership. The ...

Nearly three-quarters of Bangladesh’s health spending comes directly from people’s pockets, pushing millions into financial distress. This reality demands that health financing reform become a non-neg ...

Public health involves a collective social effort to enhance health and prevent communicable and non-communicable diseases. Public health fulfills its mission through organized, interdisciplinary ...