CDC Around the World This Week: Global Health Security

CDC Around the World This Week: Global Health Security

IN THIS MESSAGE:	PHOTO OF THE WEEK A disease threat anywhere is a disease threat everywhere. More than 30 nations met in Helsinki, Finland, May 5-6, to commit to global health security. The meeting focused on commitments that are measurable, substantive new or expanded activities. View full-sized photo
Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Global Health Security
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Blog of the Week HELSINKI, FINLAND – THE NEXT STEP IN ACCELERATING GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY When senior leaders from more than 30 countries and 4 international organizations converged on Helsinki on May 5th for two days of intensive discussion, the over-arching topic was one that is closely associated with Finland’s capital city – security…read blog Infographic of the Week GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY(from CDC Foundation) View full-sized infographic Video of the Week GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY(from CDC Foundation) The world has become smaller, and diseases do not recognize national boundaries. We are facing the reality that a threat to health anywhere can become a threat to health everywhere. And the biggest threats are the ones we do not yet know…watch video Story of the Week GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY AGENDA COMMITMENT DEVELOPMENT MEETING, HELSINKI, FINLAND, MAY 5-6, 2014 More than 30 countries, WHO, FAO, OIE, and the EU gathered in Helsinki, Finland, on May 5-6, 2014, bringing together leaders from multiple sectors needed to make progress on the Global Health Security (GHS) Agenda. These include health, foreign affairs, development, agriculture, defense, and national security. Aligning capacity and resources aimed at achieving GHS objectives across these sectors will result in more rapid progress toward the vision of a world safe and secure from infectious disease threats…read story

In the News

WHO: Spread of polio now a world health emergency Washington Post, May 5, 2014 In praise of CDC's heroic 'disease detectives' Fox News, April 30, 2014 Drug-Resistant Bugs a Global Threat, WHO Says NBC News, April 30, 2014 Mysterious Kidney Disease Slays Farmworkers In Central America NPR, April 30, 2014 CDC uses software to find people exposed to Ebola fever UPI, April 29, 2014

On the Calendar

May 5-6: Global Health Security Agenda Commitment Development Meeting, Helsinki, Finland May 6: World Asthma Day May 9, 12-1 PM ET: CDC Twitterview with ASTMH on the topic of neglected parasitic infections (NPIs). Follow hashtag #NPIchat. May 12: International Nurses Day May 15: International Day of Families May 17: World Hypertension Day May 31: World No Tobacco Day June 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression June 5: World Environment Day