Collaboration in Public Health: A New Global Imperative

The need for global regulatory harmonization: A public health imperative.

DRUG REGULATION SERVES TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH. DONE RIGHT, IT DRIVES THE ongoing assessment of product safety, efficacy, and quality and promotes the development and availability of new and better products. However, in our modern world, the mosaic of regulations that govern drug development and oversight nation by nation are creating unnecessary barriers to the efficient delivery of safe, inn...

The Imperative of Public Health Education: A Global Perspective

This review positions public health as an endeavour that requires a high order of professionalism in addressing the health of populations; this requires investment in an educational capacity that is designed to meet this need. In the global context, the field has evolved enormously over the past half century, supported by institutions such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization and th...

Promoting physical activity: the new imperative for public health.

The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of initiatives designed to increase physical activity among different populations and in different settings, and to set the context for the major challenges that lie ahead. The decline in habitual physical activity with modernization, and the causal link between physical activity and health are briefly reviewed. The need to understand physical act...

Food Safety Informatics: A Public Health Imperative

To date, little has been written about the implementation of utilizing food safety informatics as a technological tool to protect consumers, in real-time, against foodborne illnesses. Food safety outbreaks have become a major public health problem, causing an estimated 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. Yet, government inspectors/regulators t...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!