Tag: Joshua Sharfstein

US CDC begins agency-wide changes after pandemic failures

Volume 400, Issue 10365
19 November 2022 

 

WORLD REPORT  An independent review made several recommendations for improving the public health agency. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is on a mission to reorganise and modernise itself, so that its mistakes during the pandemic will not happen again. The aim is to make the nation’s leading disease detective more nimble and accountable, and fortify its role as public health protector. But although some changes have been made, progress will be limited without support from Congress. [Continued here.] 
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US Planned Parenthood leadership shake-up

  Volume 394       Number 10195       27 July 2019   
WORLD REPORT Planned Parenthood’s board of directors decided to remove Dr. Leana Wen her after only 8 months, igniting a public debate about how the prominent women’s health-care organisation should best protect a woman’s right to abortion.[Continued here] 
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Profile: Leana Wen, President of Planned Parenthood

 Volume 393, Number 10168   

 19 January 2019       

 

“If there is one thing that I can accomplish as the President of Planned Parenthood, it’s to make clear that reproductive health care is standard health care, that women’s health care is standard health care and that we must view all aspects of health care as a fundamental human right”, said Wen.  [Continued here.]…