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Swine Flu: The Need for a Strong Public Health System

April 27, 2009

Posted by Gina Solomon in Health and the Environment

Tags:
CDC, centersfordiseasecontrol, climatechange, disease, H1N1, influenza, monitoring, simplesteps, surveillance, swineflu

The automated voice on my answering machine at first sounded like a telemarketing call. Yet as my finger moved to the 'delete' button, I stopped. "THIS IS A TEST OF THE DISASTER HEALTHCARE VOLUNTEERS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM," the mechanical voice intoned....continued

Preparing for Global Warming

September 12, 2007

Posted by Gina Solomon in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
climatechange, disease, globalwarming, health, heat, institute-of-medicine, IPCC, pollen

I just spent the last two days at a meeting of the Institute of Medicine on "Climate and Human Health". The setting was nice - San Francisco's Presidio National Park - but the topic was disturbing. Here's the gist: Nobody's...continued

Gina Solomon
Gina Solomon
Senior Scientist
San Francisco
I've been a Senior Scientist at NRDC for twelve years, and my work is focused on protecting people...
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