By Guest Columnist SAM WILLIAMS, Georgia State University professor of practice and former Metro Atlanta Chamber president
Metropolitan Atlanta’s universities and hospitals (“Eds and Meds”), with more than 340,000 jobs, make a larger contribution to the metro area economy than its Fortune 500 headquarters. These anchor institutions are rooted in place, not likely to relocate and relatively immune to economic swings, and help establish the economy and culture of the city.
The recent $100 million gift to Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health furthers Atlanta’s position of leadership, research and scholarship in the global effort to prevent disease and prolong life.
At a time when one of the hottest controversies in American politics has to do with vaccinations, House Bill 1000 takes the subject into new territory.
Dani Fallin was a rock star at Johns Hopkins University when she accepted Emory University’s offer to lead the Rollins School of Public Health. Fallin’s term as dean is to start July 1.
One of Georgia’s leading scientists – Dr. Carlos del Rio – declared the nation had failed in how it responded to the Coronavirus pandemic.
This would gets Georgia through June. Longer-term budget to come.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a response from Georgia Power.
Advocates of environmental justice met Tuesday to discuss their interest in promoting public health at the local, state and national levels, and obtaining funding to promote the campaigns.
Thanksgiving abstinence is not going to happen.
Grady Memorial Hospital will have barely half of its beds available for patients even after up to 52 beds are opened with proceeds of a $2.1 grant from the Marcus Foundation, state records show.
Emory University is requesting donations from Atlanta’s corporate community to fund research into a treatment for the coronavirus.
Expect many more than Fulton’s current 49 cases.
By Dr. Judy Monroe, president and CEO of the CDC Foundation Unfortunately, most of us have a connection to the opioid overdose crisis now hitting the United States, whether through the struggles of a family member, friend, co-worker or neighbor. Here’s a statistic that brings the epidemic home: Today, more than 2 million people in […]
Metro Atlanta’s standing in public health and medical research has grown by another notch. A highly regarded brain researcher has agreed to serve as the founding director of a new institute at Georgia State University, in addition to assuming appointments at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
By Charles Redding, MedShare CEO & President Each year MedShare organizes an Impact Trip to a country we serve as a way to give Board members, staff, donors, potential donors, and supporters a way to see first-hand the impact of our work and to evaluate current healthcare conditions. Each year we leave amazed by the impact […]
By Jennie Ward-Robinson, PhD, President & CEO, Uniting for Health Innovation As we near the end of the first decade of the 21st century, we can clearly see that while a host of medical triumphs have led to longer, healthier lives, there is certainly much work to be done. Illnesses like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease seem […]
By Dave Ross, ScD, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Task Force for Global Health This month, we will move into a larger headquarters in downtown Decatur to meet the growing needs of our programs and launch new initiatives to solve large-scale health problems. Due to the success of our programs, we have been growing at […]
By Charles Redding 2017 has been a difficult year for many. Outbreaks of infectious diseases like cholera and diphtheria have ravaged medically underserved communities in multiple countries. Poor healthcare in refugee camps has caused complications for pregnant mothers fleeing dangerous areas. The distribution of a faulty vaccine has left children in the Philippines at greater […]
The threat is real: defunding CDC puts us all in danger, in every country of the globe By: Courtney Carson, MA, Policy and Advocacy Officer, GHTC & Brandon Ball, Policy & Advocacy Officer, PATH Photo: Dr. Stephen Redd gives a tour of CDC’s Emergency Operations Center, which serves as a command center for monitoring and […]
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced Friday that Atlanta will mount a $400,000 effort to curb mosquito-borne illnesses, including Zika. The money is coming from the $800,000 allocation Georgia received from the federal Zika funding bill approved by Congress last year.
Consider this comment from a young adult quoted in a new health study led by a researcher at Georgia State University: “I smoke [pot] recreationally, but it still has those medical effects because I work and UPS, and I lift boxes all day. … I’m sore a lot of the times. But I don’t even notice these days because I’m so medicated.”
