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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.

Protected From Birth: Newborn Screening Saves Lives and Futures

Fortunately for thousands of babies born in the U.S. each year, many treatable diseases are caught and diagnosed within days.

Selling Health: Sprinkles Benefit Women and Children in Rural Kenya

Berlyne Otieno displays some of the Sprinkles packets she sells from her home in the village of Kongele, Kenya.

Stories

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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