The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services,and is headquartered in Atlanta,Georgia.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University,a private research university in Baltimore,Maryland. As the second independent,degree-granting institution for research in epidemiology and training in public health,and the largest public health training facility in the United States.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is the state department responsible for public health in California. It is a subdivision of the California Health and Human Services Agency. It enforces some of the laws in the California Health and Safety Codes,notably the licensing of some types of healthcare facilities. One of its functions is to oversee vital records operations throughout the state.
Wafaa El-Sadr is a Columbia University Professor and the director of ICAP at Columbia University,Columbia World Projects and the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research (CIDER) at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.
Leana Sheryle Wen is an American physician,author,professor,speaker,consultant,newspaper columnist and television commentator. She is former health commissioner for the city of Baltimore and former president of Planned Parenthood. She has written two books based on her experiences as a medical professional.
Nadine Burke Harris is a Canadian-American pediatrician who was the Surgeon General of California between 2019 and 2022;she is the first person appointed to that position. She is known for linking adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress with harmful effects to health later in life. Hailed as a pioneer in the treatment of toxic stress,she is an advisory council member for the Clinton Foundation's "Too Small to Fail" campaign,and the founder and former chief executive officer of the Center for Youth Wellness. Her work was also featured in Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed.
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who was the 17th Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health,being appointed to the position by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 29,2021,until December 31,2022. From 2014 to 2018,she was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Céline R. Gounder is an American physician and medical journalist who specializes in infectious diseases and global health. She was a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board transition team of then-incoming U.S. president Joe Biden. In 2022,she joined the Kaiser Family Foundation as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News.
Susan Pardee Baker is a professor emeritus of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an injury prevention expert. She served as the first director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. She is also known for developing Injury Severity Scores.
Jeong Eun-kyeongor Jung Eun-kyeong is a South Korean infectious disease and public health expert served as the first Commissioner of KDCA,Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency,from 2020 to 2022. Jeong was previously the first woman to lead its preceding agency,KCDC,which history dates back to 1981.
The COVID-19 pandemic in California began earlier than in some other parts of the United States. Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California,and the first infection was confirmed on January 26,2020. All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China,as testing was restricted to this group,but there were some other people infected by that point. A state of emergency was declared in the state on March 4,2020. A mandatory statewide stay-at-home order was issued on March 19,2020;it was ended on January 25,2021. On April 6,2021,the state announced plans to fully reopen the economy by June 15,2021.
Bonnie J. Fraser Henry is a Canadian epidemiologist,physician,and public servant who has been the provincial health officer at the British Columbia Ministry of Health since 2014. Henry is also a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She is a specialist in public health and preventive medicine,and is a family doctor. In her role as provincial health officer,Henry notably led the response to COVID-19 in British Columbia (BC).
The Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health is an award in the field of public health. It is given every two years by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health to an individual who has made a "transformational contribution" in the field. The first Calderone Prize was awarded in 1992.
Nancy Messonnier is an American physician who served as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2021. She worked on the CDC's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Peter Daszak is a British zoologist,consultant and public expert on disease ecology,in particular on zoonosis. He is the president of EcoHealth Alliance,a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention. He is also a member of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He lives in Suffern,New York.
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen is an American internist,public health official,and healthcare executive serving as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since July 10,2023. She was previously the executive vice president at Aledade and chief executive officer of Aledade Care Solution,a healthcare company.
Rochelle Paula Walensky is an American physician-scientist who served as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023 and served as the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in her capacity as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023. On May 5,2023,she announced her resignation,effective June 30,2023. Prior to her appointment at the CDC,she had served as the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Walensky is an expert on HIV/AIDS.
The government of California initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the state with a statewide lockdown,the first of its kind during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. As the pandemic progressed in California and throughout the rest of the country,the California government,following recommendations issued by the U.S. government regarding state and local government responses,began imposing social distancing measures and workplace hazard controls.
Charity Dean is an American public health physician who is known for her work as the assistant director of the California Department of Public Health in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. She is the co-founder and CEO of The Public Health Company.
Epsilon variant,also known as CAL.20C and referring to two PANGO lineages B.1.427 and B.1.429,is one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2,the virus that causes COVID-19. It was first detected in California,USA in July 2020.
