Bill Watson with Ready to Go Co-Author Beth Meyerson

Panel Who Formally Presented Ready to Go

Bill Watson and Walt Dowdle

Co-Authors Naehr, Martich, and Meyerson with Bill Watson and Dr. Dave Sencer

Retired PHAs Doyle, Lattimer, Watkins, and Giodano with Dr. Dave Sencer (second from left)

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Ready to Go begins to tell the story of the Public Health Advisor. It is written for several audiences: PHAs and their close colleagues, past and current employees of COC, public health employees in state and local governments and ministries of health, students of public health, for those who hope to make a contribution through public service and might consider such an unusual and rewarding career in public health, and for the citizen interested in our nation’s public health system.

Since their beginnings PHAs have decidedly contributed to the public health infrastructures of local and state health departments, and they have served the hierarchy of CDC with distinction. Public Health Advisors have been detailed throughout the world to eradicate smallpox, measles, and polio and to address a host of other diseases and conditions. They are among the first responders in > times of public health crisis or humanitarian disaster. Though PHAs took various career paths, each Public Health Advisor was traditionally equipped with an accrual of field and operational experiences, making them invaluable to CDC.

The story begins and ends with an experiment. It is told for the benefit of history on behalf of the women and men who call themselves Public Health Advisors. PHAs are not the type to write their histories or "toot their own horns," though some are master storytellers. Some such stories grace these pages while others are best told in private company, but all should eventually be told because they shed light on this unique and inimitable public health worker.

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