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May 24, 2012
Dr. Cara Burns and Her Work to Help Eradicate Polio
Dr. Cara Burns has served as Team Lead of the Polio Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease at CDC since 2007.
April 27, 2012
Godfrey Oakley: Persistence Is Key in the Folic Acid Success Story
Godfrey P. Oakley, Jr., MD, came to CDC in 1968 as an EIS officer. He was the initial head of CDC’s first section of birth defects, which developed into a division by the early 1980s and later became a center in the 1990s.
April 27, 2012
J. David Erickson: Involved from the Start in the Folic Acid Success Story
J. David (Dave) Erickson, DDS, PhD, who worked with RJ Berry in the China study, was involved from the beginning with CDC’s work on folic acid. He acknowledges that initially there was substantial doubt within CDC about folic acid’s preventive effects.
April 27, 2012
RJ Berry and the China Study on Folic Acid
The China study, officially named the Sino American Cooperative Project on Neural Tube Defects, was conducted in two areas during the mid-1990s: in northern China where the background rate was high, and in southern region China where the background rate was comparable to the US.
April 27, 2012
Joe Mulinare: The Early Years of Folic Acid Research
When Joseph (Joe) Mulinare, MD, MSPH, came to CDC in 1981 he immediately began to work on researching the role of folic acid in preventing the neural tube defects (NTDs) anencephaly and spina bifida, serious birth defects of the brain and spine.
March 20, 2012
Meet Dr. Arnold Castro – Outstanding Laboratorian, February 2012
Dr. Arnold received this honor from the Laboratory Science, Policy and Practice Program Office (LSPPPO) in the Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS) at CDC.
January 27, 2012
How CDC is Working to Fight Malaria
Meet Dr. S. Patrick Kachur, who oversees CDC’s Malaria Branch. Not only is the Malaria Branch the oldest program at CDC but with more than 60 staff, it’s the largest group of malaria scientists in North America. We recently talked to Dr. Kachur about his work.
December 20, 2011
Can Polio Be Eradicated For Good?
Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal disease that is completely preventable through vaccination. In fact, polio was eradicated in the Americas by 1994 through large scale vaccination efforts.
November 17, 2011
Meet Benjamin Silk, CDC Disease Detective
Dr. Benjamin Silk is a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Public Health Service and an expert on tracking the bacteria listeria that can cause foodborne sickness and death.
October 16, 2011
Now At the David J. Sencer CDC Museum – Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Keeping Well
At the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, we are committed to organizing and presenting exhibits that explore CDC’s mission to control and prevent diseases here in the United States and around the globe.
October 6, 2011
Asthma and Self-Carry in a Large Georgia School District: Dan Burrows' story
At the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, we are committed to organizing and presenting exhibits that explore CDC’s mission to control and prevent diseases here in the United States and around the globe.
September 23, 2011
Real Life Disease Detectives - Dr. Ben Silk
Dr. Benjamin (Ben) Silk has 16 years of experience in public health surveillance, field epidemiology, and applied research related to infectious disease prevention and control.
September 23, 2011
Real Life Disease Detectives - Dr. Carolyn Bridges
Dr. Carolyn Bridges describes her work at CDC. Dr. Bridges joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996 where she was assigned to work on influenza.
September 23, 2011
Real Life Disease Detectives - Dr. Fatimah Dawood
Dr. Fatimah Dawood describes her work at CDC. Dr. Dawood is a medical epidemiologist with the Influenza Division at CDC. She came to CDC in 2008 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer assigned to CDC’s Influenza Division where she worked on analyses of the burden of influenza among children in the United States, risk indicators for influenza-associated pneumonia in children, and the epidemiology of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic in the United States and Australia.
September 23, 2011
Real Life Disease Detectives - Dr. Dan Jernigan
Dr. Dan Jernigan is a senior medical officer in the CDC Influenza (Flu) Division. He serves as a principle investigator for flu research. Additionally, he has led disease investigation teams for national and international responses including bioterrorism-related anthrax, the emergence of West Nile virus, SARS, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza.
September 23, 2011
Real Life Disease Detectives - Dr. Jennifer McQuiston
Watch Dr. Jennifer McQuiston as she describes her work at CDC. CDC helps to protect people all over the world from new outbreaks of viruses, foodborne diseases, and environmental hazards.
August 29, 2011
Can Fear be a Contagion? Can Mass Fear Lead to Public Panic?
No one is immune to fear, but what causes fear can be different for each person. Fear is a negative sensation or feeling that arises when someone becomes aware of a threat. How much fear a person feels depends on whether the threat seems directed at them personally or not, how bad the threat seems, and how soon or likely it is.
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