by Carolina on September 1, 2010
The Office of Civic Engagement is partnering with Center of Disease Control and Prevention to host the 3rd Annual Sickle Cell Disease Education Symposium. The evening will include presentations from a historian that will provide an overview of the first two case histories of sickle cell disease, a CDC scientist will discuss the public health impact of SCD and current CDC activities and a national community leader will discuss the future of SCD from a community based organization perspective. In addition to providing a forum to inform patients, families, community leaders, and health care providers about the public health impact of SCD, the goal of the symposium is to promote community engagement and advocacy.
The Symposium will be held on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 6:45 – 8:00 p.m. in Speakers Auditorium within the Student Center at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
by Carolina on August 1, 2010
by Carolina on July 5, 2010
Here are some opportunities for career development of public health training for students and public health professionals at the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Student Internships and Fellowships
CDC offers a variety of internships and fellowships for students in areas of interest such as environmental health, epidemiology, general public health, global health, and laboratory research.
Programs:
Environmental health
Collegiate Leaders in Environmental Health (CLEH)
Summer Program in Environmental Health
Epidemiology
Epidemiology Elective Program
The CDC Experience Fellowship in Applied Epidemiology
General public health
ASPH/CDC Public Health Internship Program
Global health
CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship
Laboratory research
James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Career Training Fellowships
There are a variety of career trainings for graduates with bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degrees, medical and other public health professionals in different areas of interest on Computer science and information systems, epidemiology, general public health, global public health, health economics and quantitative policy analysis, laboratory research, management and leadership, preventive medicine, and public health management.
Programs:
Computer Science and Information Systems
Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
Epidemiology
Epidemic Intelligence Service
General Public Health
ASPH/CDC Public Health Fellowship Program
Global Public Health
ASPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellowship Program
Health Economics and Quantitative Policy Analysis
Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship Program
Laboratory Research
Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Advanced Laboratory Training Fellowship
Management and Leadership
Emerging Leaders Program at CDC
Presidential Management Fellows at CDC
Preventive Medicine
Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship
Public Health Management
Public Health Apprentice Program
For more information you can access CDC website.
by Carolina on June 29, 2010
Here are some of the advances in the control of BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico:
- Under the direction of the federal government, BP continues to capture some oil and burn gas at the surface using its containment dome technique, to optimize oil recovery from its leaking well.
- Progress continues in drilling relief wells.
- BP continues the “ranging” process which involves periodically withdrawing the drill pipe and sending an electrical signal down to determine how close they are getting to the wellbore.
- NOAA-supported scientists predict increase in area containing depleted oxygen levels: the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone, an underwater area with little or no oxygen known commonly as the “dead zone,” could be larger than the recent average by 500-1,800 square miles.
- NOAA expands fishing restriction in the gulf: The closed area now represents 80,228 square miles—approximately 33.2 percent—of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. This closure does not apply to any state waters. This leaves more than 66 percent of Gulf federal waters available for fishing.
- The United States accept offers from a dozen countries and international agencies to help contain and clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
- The U.S. Government has named BP as the responsible party, and officials have committed to hold the company accountable for all cleanup costs and other damage.
- As of June 28th, BP had successfully removed 28,000,000 US gallons (890,000 US bbl) of oily liquid and burned about 9,900,000 US gallons (314,000 US bbl) of oil.
Tropical Storm “Alex”
The oil–spill cleanup may be delayed by The Tropical Storm Alex. BP Plc’s efforts to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history were disrupted as Tropical Storm Alex strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico. The high winds are preventing flights to spray dispersant chemicals on the oil slick, which is in the northern and eastern Gulf.
Nearly 39,000 people and more than 6,000 boats are working there, in other parts of the Gulf and on land to skim and corral the oil, protect hundreds of miles of coastline and clean fouled beaches.
Alex is expected to make landfall as a hurricane late Wednesday or early Thursday near the Texas-Mexico border, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the Gulf oil spill. For now, this Tropical Storm is not expected to pass close the BP Plc.’s blown-out well off the Louisiana coast, but the storm ’s path is being watched closely. However, drilling of an additional well to stop the gushing of the initial well is continuing and the relief well is scheduled to be completed in August.
by Carolina on June 25, 2010
It has been more than 8 weeks since one of BP’s oil rigs exploded and oil has been spewing out of it. Here is a quick look at the timeline of the events from May 24th – June 29th so far:
May 24 – 27, 2010
May 24th
- It’s been over a month since the $560-million oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk and vast quantities of oil are still leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, causing an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions.
- The “Top Kill” BP’s plan now is delayed. They try to plug the well with pressured drilling mud long enough to be able to seal it permanently with cement. Unfortunately it has never been tried at this depth, so nobody knows if it’s going to work.
May 27th
- The “top kill” is finally attempted, and at first it looked like it was working (a U.S. Coast Guard admiral said as much). But after a few days of efforts, the “top kill” is abandoned. BP will have to try something else…
June 15 – 29, 2010
- Federal officials leading the frontline response to the BP oil spill to prevent oil from reaching the shoreline along the Gulf Coast and to mitigate its impact where it does.
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has many monitoring stations surrounding the oil spill. Nearly every report that has come from the EPA shows little to no effect from the oil spill and no air quality degradation from the controlled burns and toxic dispersant released into the water.
- EPA has observed odor-causing pollutants associated with oil on the shore in the gulf region at low levels. Some of these chemicals may cause short-lived effects like headache, eye, nose and throat irritation, or nausea. Some people may be able to smell several of these chemicals at levels well below those that would cause short-term health problems.
- Surface water results collected along the Gulf coast on June 15, 18, 20, & 21, 2010 found no compounds exceeding chronic water benchmarks.
- Sediment samples collected June 20, 2010 along the Gulf coast did not reveal elevated levels for chemicals that are usually found in oil.
- “Federal government’s aggressive response efforts and oversight of BP will continue until BP stops its leaking well, the damage is cleaned up, and Gulf Coast communities are made whole, and stressed that the federal government is working closely with state and local authorities to ensure that they have the resources they need to meet the evolving threat from this oil spill.”
- For information about validated environmental air and water sampling results, visit www.epa.gov/bpspill.
