Michelangelo Puliga’s Post

Wonderful article on the importance of trust in public health work. It leaves unanswered, however, a major question: How do we begin to rebuild trust when it is lost, especially when that loss of trust is tied up in the politics of an increasingly polarized and fractured population? We don't need to rebuild trust in public health institutions - we need to rebuild trust in the fundamental good intentions of our nation's institutions. https://lnkd.in/eHn4EabV

Pandemics have become more frequent with the rise in global populations, global travel and animals coming in frequent contact with humans. We've had several regional pandemics over the last decades and several global pandemics over the last centuries. They will only increase in frequency. Learn how to mitigate your risk of airborne transmission now so that you are ready when the next pandemic is here. #wecleantheairyoubreathe #coloradoairfilter #colorado

Check out the insightful article in The New York Times featuring our esteemed dean discussing the rise of measles outbreaks across the United States.

I was 23 years old and triple vaxxed when I got COVID. Over eighteen months later, my long COVID remains a daily struggle, and affects absolutely every choice I make. With respect to Dr John Gerrard, it is comments like these — not the label ‘long COVID’ — that are harmful. We need to be able to name what we are experiencing, and we need to educate people about the ongoing long-term health risks of COVID-19 — not to create unnecessary fear, but to be realistic about this significant, debilitating public health issue. I encourage everyone in my network to learn more about #longcovid and reflect on how they can support people they know who have long COVID — in the workplace and beyond. Because it can affect anyone, including you. #covid #health #publichealth #law #justice #australia

Addressing the challenge of imported measles clusters is a significant public health concern. Each cluster demands extensive staff time and resources to contain. We are fortunate to have nationally recognized measles experts in Minnesota; however, the current frequency and intensity of responses are unsustainable with our existing resources. https://lnkd.in/gapFJQ-S

The World Health Organization has declared Mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox) a public health emergency! Learn everything you need to know about it through my article in Forbes! https://lnkd.in/e8iGknvV

Current mpox outbreak recognized as a global public health emergency The World Customs Organization (WCO) closely monitors the recent developments regarding the current mpox outbreak with a view to ensuring that WCO Members with public health and safety responsibilities are properly informed about the situation and are involved in national response strategies. At the level of borders, many WCO Members play an important role in national response strategies to mitigate epidemic-related public health and safety risks. In this context, it is of utmost importance that Customs administrations with health and safety responsibilities are adequately integrated as part of the preparedness and response mechanisms. Read WCO’s statement below and access WCO’s Resolution on the Role of Customs in facilitating the cross-border movement of situationally critical medicines and vaccines as well as other links. #mpox #emergency #publichealth #customs

WHO declares mpox a "global public health emergency", again ... What does this even mean? A global health emergency sounds really scary, surely, they are shutting down travel and putting up quarantines and ... "WHO’s highest level of alert, and it can accelerate research, funding and international public health measures and co-operation to contain the disease." but instead, we only get "CDC has also issued an advisory for people traveling to the DRC and its neighboring countries" the words we choose matter, if we say something is a global emergency but don't treat it as such, the next time we have a global emergency people won't care. we can all think of 100's of things gov't did wrong during covid, lets create better systems in order to get better results, because there will be a next time ...

A concerning yet interesting read in The Guardian (Observer) this weekend on the apparent 'return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK'.   It could be argued that the very existence of such diseases acted as the precursor for the existence of the environmental health profession. 150 years later, the prevalence, and in some cases re-emergence of public health outbreaks, serves to highlight the continued importance of environmental health and the need for the profession to be fully recognised, supported and funded.   As we appear to turn full circle on what we thought was public health past, and as we convene our first meeting of the CIEH Workforce Satellite Panel, this latest news is a timely reminder of the real-world consequences and impacts we face with an underfunded public health workforce. The vital preventative role of the environmental health profession cannot and must not be ignored in tackling modern-day health crises. https://lnkd.in/ezJ_9KZF #CIEH #EnvironmentalHealth #PublicHealth #DiseasePrevention

The threat of an #mpox pandemic has emerged again, with new cases every day and two emergency declarations in effect for the African continent and for the world. As my colleagues Lawrence Gostin, Sam Halabi and I wrote today in the The New York Times, urgent, coordinated action is needed to stop the spread — especially the equitable sharing of vaccines to countries currently affected. Covid-19 and too many health emergencies before that have taught us that complacency and delayed action pose a threat to all of us. #VaccineEquity, #GlobalHealthLaw O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law