Grand Rounds Nation®

In this session of Beyond the Data carrying forward ideas discussed at CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds, Dr. Phoebe Thorpe speaks with Dr. Bobbi Pritt, Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of Vector-borne Diseases Laboratory Services at the Mayo Clinic. The two expand on Dr. Pritt's lecture focusing on advances in diagnosing tickborne diseases.

In this session of Beyond the Data carrying forward ideas discussed at CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds, Dr. Phoebe Thorpe and Dr. Larry Garber expand on the reasons for medication non-adherence by patients, and priority considerations for helping reduce this risk.

Laboratory safety may sound straightforward, but in reality it is supported by complex and ever-changing science. Safety standards and practices evolve as scientists learn more about the materials they handle regularly.

In this session of Public Health Grand Rounds from the CDC, presenters will discuss how standards of laboratory safety have improved over the years, what we’ve learned from past incidents, and how establishing safety protocols and training systems can lead to an overall culture of workplace safety, resulting in continued public trust in our science and recommendations.

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CDC's Dr. Phoebe Thorpe speaks with Dr. Sherif Zaki about the important work being done to further reduce the risk of unusual transplant-associated infections.

Ensuring that organs are safe requires:

• Involvement by many disciplines including: pathologists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and others
• Global collaboration between federal and state agencies as well as academic institutions
• Continued focus on improving regulations and screening procedures

CDC's Dr. John Iskander and Dr. Janet Wright discuss the progress that has been made with Million Hearts®, along with the work that is still needed to reach the goal of preventing one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.

Providers should:

• Utilize electronic health records to proactively reach individuals with elevated blood pressure or cholesterol
• Place emphasis on detecting cases of uncontrolled high blood pressure which are hiding in plain sight

Communities can:

• Implement smoke-free policies to lower exposure to smoke
• Adopt food procurement policies that make healthier foods more readily available
• Encourage and train individuals to self-monitor their blood pressure

CDC's Dr. Phoebe Thorpe and Dr. David Lakey discuss the many costs of preterm birth, and how we can make prevention a priority in the United States. Tune in to find out how some states, like Texas, are educating the public and taking steps to reduce the rates of preterm birth and infant mortality.

Dr. John Iskander and Dr. George Luber revisit their discussion on climate change and its impact on human health to update some of the important new scientific findings that have taken place.

Since the first session on climate change:

• 2014 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record,
• Extreme climate events are occurring more frequently, and
• Communities are facing heightened health risks due to drought.

Global health security is the protection of the health of people and societies worldwide. With diseases a plane ride or border crossing away, the importance of global health security has never been clearer. Patterns of global travel and trade pose greater opportunities for infectious diseases to emerge and spread nearly anywhere within 24 hours. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which has infected more than 28,000 people across 10 countries and has caused more than 11,200 deaths, highlights the importance of ensuring that every country is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks and emerging health threats.

In this session of Public Health Grand Rounds from the CDC, experts discuss how CDC, other U.S. government agencies, and global partners are working to promote global health security as an international priority and accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from epidemics of infectious disease.

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