Katrina Responder Applies Lessons Learned to Oil Spill
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Oil Spill Threatens Fisherman’s Way of Life
A day on the marsh with a fisherman offers a glimpse into a way of life on the Gulf Coast.
On the Frontlines of Disaster in New Orleans
Louisiana leaders are dealing directly with the aftermath of the oil spill - just as they did following Katrina.
A New Momentum: Bloomberg Initiative Targets Smoking Worldwide
The Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use targets 15 countries that account for two-thirds of the world’s smokers.
What Once Was: Singer Loses Career to Cigarette Habit
Tobacco is the world’s leading preventable agent of death, causing more than 5 million deaths each year.
The Streets of Manaus, Brazil
Whether it’s in the U.S. or here on the sweltering streets of Brazil, the challenges to quit smoking are the same.
ASSIGNMENT: CDC, Photographs by David Snyder
An exhibition featuring 75 photographs and notes from the field opens September 25th at CDC's Global Health Odyssey Museum.
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Applying Lessons Learned: Catholic Charities Reaches Out With Lessons from Katrina
Like many who lived through Hurricane Katrina, Jim Kelly still vividly recalls the eerie aftermath of the flooding in New Orleans. “There were no birds. There were no lights. There was no water,” Kelly says. “You cannot imagine what it feels like when...
Disaster Recovery: Nonprofit Leader Views Networking as Way Forward
Joseph Kimbrell, chief executive officer of the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), can see the Louisiana Superdome from his New Orleans office. It is a commanding view today – and a stark reminder of the chaos in the days following Hurricane Katrina when thousands of evacuees crammed the Superdome...
Red Cross CEO Offers Insight on Emergency Preparedness and Response
Kay Wilkins, CEO, American Red Cross, Southeast Louisiana Chapter, is a resilient, optimistic leader. But she recalls that her leadership was put to the test during the dark days following Hurricane Katrina. “We felt we were prepared for a Category...
Oil Spill Threatens Fisherman’s Way of Life
Past 60 now, his skin weathered by a life in the Gulf Coast sun, Darryl Eymard is hard to impress. He speaks as slowly as an outgoing tide, weighs his words with the care of a thinker and offers pearls of country wisdom across the console of his...
Katrina Responder Applies Lessons Learned to Oil Spill
If you watch her eyes as she drives slowly through the Lower 9th Ward, you can almost see the events of Hurricane Katrina unfolding again for Avis Gray. As the regional administrator for the Louisiana Office of Public Health in New Orleans, Gray was...
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On the Frontlines of Disaster in New Orleans
Spent the last few days in New Orleans with the CDC Foundation. They...
The Streets of Manaus, Brazil
Anyone who has ever smoked knows how difficult it is to quit. Whether...
Morning Meeting in Port-au-Prince
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