Health Workers

‘They get to reintroduce public health to America,’ says former assistant surgeon general as he shares insights on his students, outbreaks and the crisis at CDC.

Influenza is arriving earlier, spreading faster, and sending more people to the hospital - already.

I understood dementia in theory. But when it hit home — my home — none of the textbooks could prepare me for that pain. And what hurt most was this: There was nowhere for my father to go.

I saw a client that morning, wound tight with despair. I ushered him inside and sat with him. He cried; I listened. When his sobs finally slowed, he began to speak. The words he whispered that day have stayed with me ever since.

HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC from further harm.

A kid forgets breakfast and can't focus: blood sugar. Another keeps his head down: exhaustion. One loses a cousin to gun violence: trauma, grief, and community health.

The British Consul General to the Southeast U.S., based in Atlanta, shares a story from her global health work in the Balkans, where a program to install doors on toilets in schools grew into other projects that became a lifeline for women.

A physician with JASA, which serves older adults in New York, learns the power of patience and persistence.

A scientist recalls watching the movie and realizing he didn’t want to be the person who knew how government was controlled, but rather the person who was on the ground with the people affected.

An Atlanta firefighter working an EMT shift recalls an encounter with 'Ms. Mary' that showed him what care should look like.

The law's broad language threatens the state’s ability to prevent illness and death from infectious diseases, and, if replicated elsewhere, it could unravel decades of progress in public health.

The aim is to keep nurses in the workforce and ward off serious crises for them and their patients. At least 41 states have implemented such programs.

Lori Freeman talks to Healthbeat about CDC disruptions, funding cuts, and what city and county officials can learn from red state colleagues.

A DeKalb Department of Health official recalls an 'aha' moment in his previous global health work that transformed his perspective on the impact of seemingly small acts of service.

The fund has provided nearly $2.2 billion to states, territories, major cities, and other entities over the past 17 years to ready health care systems for the next pandemic, cyberattack, or mass-casualty event.

As CDC systems are dismantled, the idea of a coordinated national response to a health emergency seems as fictional as zombies themselves.

Public health team’s investigation suggests Tacoma-area woman is state’s first known locally acquired malaria infection.

There’s a shortage of RNs across the U.S., with Georgia needing to train 772 more a year to keep up with projected demand. One nurse’s journey from Khartoum shows how foreign-trained nurses can help plug that gap.

Healthbeat is inviting New York’s public health community to step into the spotlight and share the stories that show why this work matters, in their own words.

Together Take Me Home, based at Emory University, delivers the tests through an easy-to-use website and integration with dating apps.