The Urgent Need for Public Health Preparedness Funding and Support

Linda C Degutis1, Kimberley Shoaf1, Tomás J Aragón1

  • 1Linda C. Degutis is with the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT. Kimberley Shoaf is with the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Public Health Division, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Tomás J. Aragón is with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Population Health Division, San Francisco, CA. Christopher Atchison is with University of Iowa (Emeritus), Iowa City. David Dyjack is with the National Environmental Health Association, Denver, CO. Lisle Hites is with the Institute for Rural Health Research, College of Community Health Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Jonathan Links is with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Debra Olson is with the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health (Emeritus), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Margaret Potter is with the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Jack Thompson is with the Department of Health Services (Emeritus), School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle. Bernard Turnock is with the Division of Community Health Sciences (Emeritus), School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago.

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