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Targeting coordinated federal efforts to address persistent hazardous exposures to lead
Breysse PN , Cascio WE , Geller AM , Choiniere CJ , Ammon M . Am J Public Health 2022 112 S640-s646 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and other federal agencies are committed to primary and secondary prevention of lead exposure and its adverse health outcomes. Updated national standards, guidance, and coordinated policies combined with abatement, enforcement, remediation, infrastructure replacement, and other lead exposure prevention projects will further reduce the presence of lead in the diets of children and their families and in the places where they live, work, learn, and play. This includes providing resources to support cleanup or removal of remaining lead exposure hazards; identifying the most vulnerable US locations to focus prevention and mitigation efforts through coordinated lead-mapping efforts; targeting blood lead surveillance, education, outreach, and training to the most vulnerable locations; and updating national standards and guidance based on the best available science. We describe how agencies are coordinating their efforts. |
Disease surveillance for the COVID-19 era: time for bold changes.
Morgan OW , Aguilera X , Ammon A , Amuasi J , Fall IS , Frieden T , Heymann D , Ihekweazu C , Jeong EK , Leung GM , Mahon B , Nkengasong J , Qamar FN , Schuchat A , Wieler LH , Dowell SF . Lancet 2021 397 (10292) 2317-2319 The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in disease surveillance in nearly all countries. Early identification of COVID-19 cases and clusters for rapid containment was hampered by inadequate diagnostic capacity, insufficient contact tracing, fragmented data systems, incomplete data insights for public health responders, and suboptimal governance of all these elements. Once SARS-CoV-2 became widespread, interventions to control community transmission were undermined by weak surveillance of cases and insufficient national capacity to integrate data for timely adjustment of public health measures.1, 2 Although some countries had little or no reliable data, others did not share data consistently with their own populations and with WHO and other multilateral agencies. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has highlighted inadequate national pathogen genomic sequencing capacities in many countries and led to calls for expanded virus sequencing. However, sequencing without epidemiological and clinical surveillance data is insufficient to show whether new SARS-CoV-2 variants are more transmissible, more lethal, or more capable of evading immunity, including vaccine-induced immunity.3, 4 |
Federal agency support for healthy homes
Brown MJ , Ammon M , Grevatt P . J Public Health Manag Pract 2010 16 S90-3 Numerous studies have demonstrated that housing interventions such as addressing structural deficiencies or lack of safety devices improve health. These successes, coupled with reports by health care and housing professionals of other health and safety issues in homes that they were unable to address, have renewed interest in promoting health by addressing unhealthy housing conditions--but with a holistic approach. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and US Environmental Protection Agency fund programs to improve indoor air and drinking water quality and prevent childhood lead poisoning. All of these programs offer valuable lessons for designing more integrated programs. The federal agencies and their grantees have demonstrated that interagency collaboration is essential for successful outcomes. However, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Centers for Disease Control recognize that no individual agency has all of the necessary resources or expertise to formulate national programs and policies and implement a national healthy homes agenda. Thus, they have come together with the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Energy, the US Department of Agriculture, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Office of the Surgeon General to form an interagency working group to ensure that vigorous, healthy homes policies are implemented at federal, national, and community levels. |
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