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January 2006, Vol 96, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 11-13
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.076885

EDITORIAL

US Department of Health and Human Services: A Need for Global Health Leadership in Preparedness and Health Diplomacy

Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, UCSF Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 50 Beale St, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94105 (e-mail: tnovotny@psg.ucsf.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
More than ever before, the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) needs to be a global health agency, working to protect the health, economic, and security interests of US citizens through global collaboration and commitment to the public good. Public health preparedness extends beyond public health surveillance, preparation for bioterrorism, and political policy.1 Preparedness involves understanding the 21st-century world—its changing disease burden, its changing demographics, and its changing political and environmental substrata.

It is the moral responsibility of the US government, particularly through its lead health entity, to address the high-disease-burden global health challenges. DHHS agencies must work . . . [Full Text]


   THE CHANGING WORLD
 

   INDEPENDENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AT RISK
 

   GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IS A NECESSITY
 

   CONCLUSION
 





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