Global Health E-Brief
Stay informed with the most up-to-date information of interest to the CDC Washington policy community. Sent on a quarterly basis, the Global Health Newsletter informs policymakers about CDC's global health activities.
WELCOME to 2009’s third quarter Global Health E-Brief, designed to inform readers about key global health activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This issue highlights CDC's global health research. Looking for ways to ensure efforts maximize health and economic impact, CDC conducts research to evaluate, compare, and improve health programs and policies at every stage — from initial planning and design through implementation under often-challenging field conditions in the country. Research, particularly operations or applied research that takes science from "laboratory to field” is one of CDC's core contributions to the field of global health.
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November 2, 2009, is World Pneumonia Day
Major health and humanitarian relief organizations are joining forces to coordinate education outreach, walks, runs and policy summits in New York, Washington DC, Kenya, Nigeria, India, and Bangladesh on November 2nd to increase awareness that preventing pneumonia saves lives.
Major health and humanitarian relief organizations are joining forces to coordinate education outreach, walks, runs and policy summits in New York, Washington DC, Kenya, Nigeria, India, and Bangladesh on November 2nd to increase awareness that preventing pneumonia saves lives.
For more information, visit at: http://www.WorldPneumoniaDay.org.
Learn more about pneumonia in a special Notice to Readers in the November 2nd, 2009 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/).
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