Recently, the Department of Health & Human Services Public Health Branch was awarded reaccreditation status by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) signifying that Public Health has ...

Authors examine challenges that local health departments face and offer solutions to help focus their mission as early detectors and intervenors, more clearly delineate their roles amongst state and ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...

Lately, coverage and commentary about vaccines have dominated public health news. Reducing public health to vaccines is dangerous. Keeping the public focused on such a narrow, controversial and ...

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 ...

Since the onset of COVID-19, emerging data and reports have shown that all types of violence against women, particularly intimate partner violence (IPV), have intensified. Public health emergencies ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed significant gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure at the local, state, and federal levels. In particular, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...